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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Foreign language education"”.
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Foreign Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in Language Education: What to Teach and How to Teach
… study first reflects on my learning English as a foreign language journey and the influences that brought to my life. The seven stories in this study cover many aspects of foreign language education, including teaching contents, teaching methods, and teacher preparation. Through the lens of …
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Presentation of culture in English as a foreign language reading textbooks in Japan
… midst of debate over the treatment of culture in foreign language education and the increased exposure to culture in the global economy, the knowledge of other cultures is more significant than ever. In order to improve teaching culture, materials have been examined and revised. The purpose of …
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(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
… school system, educators of Spanish as a foreign language are faced with a different audience to the ones they were trained to teach: students who identified as heritage language learners, for whom the Spanish language is part of their community life and their cultural identity. This …
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The Relationship Between Study Abroad And Motivation, Attitude And Anxiety In University Students Learning A Foreign Language
… demographic survey reported that the typical foreign language student surveyed is female, between the ages of 18-22, a junior, a liberal arts major with non-native fluency in the target language. The typical study abroad program attended by this sample is: short-term (less than eight weeks), …
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Teaching South American Culture in Spanish: An Argentine Model for Secondary Schools
… A second dimension of the study applied to foreign language education research in an educational setting designed to test the significance and effectiveness of the teaching units. With the purpose of giving the students an indispensable background to an understanding of the country and its …
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Supporting multilingualism in Michigan schools: Educator perspectives on language education and the seal of biliteracy
<p>Learning more than one language has cognitive, emotional, and social benefits. Despite evidence in favor of bi/multilingualism, and a growing multilingual American population, bilingual education programs are scarce in the United States, foreign language education programs are being eliminated …
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E-learning, language education and the role of writing : a case study
… changing literacy practices and skills in adult foreign language education with relation to e-Iearning and with reference to the role of writing. Aspects concerning autonomous learning, teaching presence, and factors influencing the e-learning adoption-innovation process including access, …
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Implementation Of Technology In The Foreign Language Classroom
<p>The domain of foreign language learning (FLL) is critical to modern education because it allows learners to integrate with the global community in a meaningful way and offers a multitude of advantages to graduates and professionals (Akbar, 2015; Hampel, 2015). The intersection of technology …
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Drama Grammatik: Dramapädagogische Ansätze für den Grammatikunterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache
… a new concept for the teaching and learning of foreign language grammar. Grammar, traditionally taught in a predominantly cognitive, abstract mode, often fails to capture the minds of foreign language learners, who are then unable to integrate this grammatical knowledge into their use of the …
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An Examination of Chinese Private College Students’ Intercultural Competence
… for responding to global challenges for higher education institutions is to adopt an internationalization strategy and accelerate the internationalization pace. To cultivate “global-ready” graduates, developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) has become one of the core missions of …
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An exploration of virtual reality to facilitate authentic tasks in EFL learning in a Vietnamese tertiary setting
During the past decade, English language teaching has received more consideration in Vietnam than ever before evidenced by strategic funding by the government. However, the English competence of the Vietnamese population remains low due to the lack of an authentic learning environment inside and …
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A study of english loanwords in French written texts and advertisements and the perceptions and attitudes of the francophone readership
… use of English loanwords (ELWs) in the French language remains incompletely understood. This study examined the frequency and types of ELWs appearing in French written texts (FWTs) and advertisements (ads); and also explored the perceptions of natives of France toward this usage. To ascertain …
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Spanish II Students’ Decisions to (Dis)continue to Spanish III: A Case Study in a U.S. Midwestern School District
… and degree of difficulty required to learn a language, which related to how they felt about the progress they were making. Motivation, a positive attitude, and comfortability were also associated with continuation, whereas negative experiences with the curriculum and teachers were associated …
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Text memorisation in China: hearing the learner and teacher voice
… memorization, a widely used yet under-explored language practice in foreign language teaching and learning in mainland China. The inquiry was conducted along two lines: to conceptually examine a number of issues central to the understanding of the practice of text memorization in the Chinese …
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