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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"foreign language teaching"”.
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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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Meeting the Needs of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants: Professional Development in American Universities
… structure that has traditionally dominated foreign language (FL) departments is no longer desirable. According to the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) report entitled "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World," these departments need to strive to …
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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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The Use of Computer-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Teaching: An Ethnographically - Oriented Study (Naturalistic, Evaluation, Policy, Comparative, Ethnology)
… on computer-based instruction and the actual teaching practices of foreign language instructors. Four language teachers from two large high schools in the suburbs of Chicago agreed to participate in the study. By studying two schools with similar populations it was possible to compare the …
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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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Perceptions of University Students toward Bilingualism in Fribourg, Barcelona, and Oxford
… students’ perceptions toward bilingualism and foreign language teaching in two bilingual, European communities—Fribourg, Switzerland, and Barcelona, Spain—and at the University of Mississippi in monolingual-dominant Oxford, Mississippi. This research was conducted over a period of about nine …
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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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Complaint Talk in Korean Conversation
… suggests pedagogical implications for second/foreign language teaching. CA pays close attention to the details of interaction such as the sequencing of actions and the composition and construction of turns. Therefore, the CA analysis in this study provides practitioners and materials …
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Preservice EFL Teachers’ Teaching Anxiety : A Mixed-method Study
The increasing research on foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA) illustrates the emotional and professional challenge that preservice EFL teachers experience. This study investigates the sources and the level of FLTA which is experienced by preservice EFL teachers in Finland. Specifically, this …
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Ways of improving the teaching of writing in English as a foreign language in Hungarian secondary education
This dissertation focuses on one aspect of foreign language teaching in the Hungarian public education: teaching and the assessment of writing in English as a foreign language.<br/><br/>The ultimate aim of the investigation was to work out a training framework for teacher training institutions to …
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Code Switching in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
<p>One of the most controversial issues in foreign language teaching and learning over many years has been the role of the students’ L1 in L2 target language education. While a monolingual approach prohibited the use of the target language in L2 classroom, researchers have reexamined the issues …
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Online language teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic: French teachers' experiences and perspectives
This research dissertation examines the online teaching experience of university French teachers in South Africa and Eswatini during the Covid-19 crisis. It aims to understand the emerging technological teaching practices to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of foreign language …
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Aplikace prvků dramatické výchovy ve výuce gramatiky v hodinách češtiny pro cizince
… deals with the use of dramapedagogy in grammar teaching in Czech for foreigners. The issue is explored through a pilot study focusing on the instruction of past tense in a university course in Germany. For the purpose of the study, the drama grammar method, which combines explicit grammar …
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Discourse‐pragmatic features of spoken French: analysis and pedagogical implications
… especially those typical of present-day youth language. The dissertation has two parts: 1) Analysis of features typical of spoken language, based on a corpus of recorded data from young people aged 20 to 30, speaking to each other in spontaneous informal conversations. The analysis focuses …
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ELT IN CHINESE GENERAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ELT TEXTBOOKS
This study explores the teaching of the English language in general senior high schools in China, using the textbooks currently in use as its main research tool. The relevance of the topic stems from the importance attributed to foreign language teaching (which in most cases coincides with the …
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The effects of peer tutoring on first-grade middle school students' English reading achievement and self-esteem in China
<p>Traditional foreign language teaching pedagogy, such as the grammar-translation and audio-lingual methods, dominate most English language classrooms in China. Those methods provide a good deal of target language input but do not foster a student-centered learning environment. This study examined …
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An Investigation into Student and Teacher Attitudes towards Pedagogical Translation at Benghazi University
… and its role in enhancing students’ English as foreign language at Benghazi University. The study examines the skills and linguistic aspects that lecturers and students believe are developed through pedagogical translation. A student survey was implemented on 400 students to measure their …
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Integrating English as a Foreign Language in Austrian primary schools: contextual and participant perspectives
… (age 6-8 years old) should receive their first teaching of a foreign language integrated into the syllabus subjects. The present study, embedded in the theoretical framework of social constructivist learning and socio-cultural language learning theories, investigated the actual classroom …
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Landeskunde: Its Role and Functions in the Irish German Language Classroom An Empirical Study
… its composition, role and functions in both teaching approaches in general and in the Irish secondary school system in particular were the issues which prompted the research that comprises the basis of this study. Chapter one offers an analysis of the concept of Landeskunde - what it actually …
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An investigation into primary school MFL teaching looking at the perspectives of staff, parents and pupils,in the context of Government policy and practice
… initiatives and policies for MFL (Modern Foreign Language) teaching in primary schools. This thesis is a case study on two independent primary schools in respect of their MFL provision, its effectiveness and perception by the three stakeholders of staff, parents and pupils. Specifically, …
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