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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Foreign Language Instruction"”.
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The Development and Evaluation of Methods and Materials to Facilitate Foreign Language Instruction in Elementary Schools
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An Analysis of Washington State Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes toward Foreign Language Instruction in the Elementary School (Files)
… the State of Washington toward the teaching of a foreign language in elementary schools; and (2) to present a summary of literature on FLES to reveal the thinking of those involved in FLES programs.
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Foreign language teaching: A tale of two technical cultures
… investigation was concerned with high school foreign language teachers' perceptions of their work environment; specifically how foreign language teachers in differing school contexts defined foreign language instruction and the manner in which these contextual definitions guided their …
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Strategies for Teaching Hebrew to students with Learning Disabilities
<p>There are few research studies on foreign language acquisition for those who experience difficulties learning to read and write in their native language. Previous research investigated the relationship of native language processing and foreign language processing by students with learning …
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Getting Down to Business: An EFL curriculum design for the business setting
… for Specific Purposes (ESP) curriculum in a foreign setting (Brazil). The curriculum consists of four courses organized around three pillars: (a) the production of spontaneous contextualized communication in the target language, (b) the development of cultural competence specific to the …
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Student and instructor perceptions of the L2 writing-for-reading process
… writing-for-reading process in the context of foreign language instruction. The central research question which guides this study is: How do intermediate second language (L2) learners of German engage with and manipulate an original source text when composing a creative writing task? To …
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Preservice Teacher Education Program at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center on the Foreign Language Teaching Beliefs of Preservice Language Instructors
<p>Preservice foreign-language teachers are adults with well-established beliefs. They start teacher-education programs with traditional beliefs about language teaching reflecting their own experiences. The field of foreign-language teaching, however, underwent a paradigm shift from grammar-based …
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Second and foreign language programmes in France
Current second language programmes in elementary school in France that aim at providing instruction in regional, foreign European or immigrant languages are critically examined, not separately, as it has been done up to now, but all together and in a broader context. The historical development …
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Writing Instruction in Foreign Language Courses: Multiple Perspectives on the Impact of Peer Feedback on Students’ Writing Proficiency
… & Hicks, 2003). Its strategic incorporation into foreign language instruction can help students use the language they are in the process of acquiring to mediate language acquisition (Shrum & Glisan, 2005). Research shows that peer feedback can help students develop and advance their Zone of …
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A classroom-based study of Chinese as a Foreign Language pronunciation targeting syllables with final `-i'
As a less commonly taught language in the U.S., relatively little research has been done on the acquisition of segmental sounds in Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), particularly at the secondary level. This study targeted a unique set of status-bearing syllables in Chinese described in the …
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Child-adult differences in implicit and explicit second language learning
… a fundamental difference between adult and child language learning (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Johnson & Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Paradis, 2004). This difference is often framed as a change from implicit language learning in childhood to explicit language learning in adulthood, which is presumably …
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L’influence du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (CECR) en Ontario : Une étude de cas multi méthode de la formation initiale au CECR des enseignant.e.s du français langue seconde (FLS) en Ontario
Dans cette thèse, j’explore la présence actuelle du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (CECR) dans les programmes de formation initiale (FI) à l’enseignement du français comme langue seconde (FLS) en Ontario ainsi que les effets de cette formation sur les pratiques pédagogiques des …
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Immersion Within Call
… what constitutes immersion in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). CALL has increasingly become important in the field of SLA (Second Language Acquisition) and continues to grow in usage each year. As a graduate instructor of a basic level French course, my research focused on the …
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Attitudes of Teachers of Arabic as a Foreign Language toward Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
… examined the attitude of teachers of Arabic as a foreign language toward some of the most well known teaching methods. For this reason the following eight methods were selected: (1) the Grammar-Translation Method (GTM), (2) the Direct Method (DM), (3) the Audio-Lingual Method (ALM), (4) Total …
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Errors in inflectional morphemes as an index of linguistic competence of Korean Heritage language learners and American learners of Korean
… competence in Korean of Korean heritage language learners (HLLs), compared to English-speaking non-heritage language learners (NHLLs) of Korean. It is unclear and controversial as to whether heritage languages learners are exposed to early but are interrupted manifest as L1 competence or …
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ACQUIRING 21ST CENTURY LANGUAGE SKILLS: A CASE STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS' SECOND LANGUAGE SKILLS ON A WORLD LANGUAGE PROGRAM
… of this study was to identify how middle school language teachers bridge the skills acquired and strategies taught in an elementary school language program with the skills taught and practiced at the middle school level. The study will answer in detail this question: What perceptions do middle …
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USING NEUROCOGNITIVE THEORY TO DEVELOP A NEW APPROACH FOR TEACHING GERMAN GRAMMAR The Effect of Color-Coding German Grammar on Language Acquisition
ABSTRACT Traute Kohler Department of German Languages and Literatures University of Kansas The objective of this research project is to find out whether or not color coding has an effect on second language learning, in particular on learning German grammatical features, by using neurocognitive …
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The effects of songs in the foreign language classroom on text recall and involuntary mental rehearsal
… findings suggest that the use of songs in the foreign language classroom may aid memory of text. The results evidenced that the occurrence of the din is increased with music, and therefore may be a more efficient way to stimulate language acquisition.
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THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING AND READING STRATEGIES ON READING SELF-EFFICACY
This study is a quasi-experimental, longitudinal investigation into the role that extensive reading and reading strategies play in the cultivation of reading self-efficacy. Conducted over the course of one academic year, how changes in reading self-efficacy translate into changes in reading …