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Feifei Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As the United States becomes ever more pluralistic and globalization makes the world more closely connected, it has never been more necessary to build an educational system that helps students grow into competent world citizens who can communicate effectively in languages other than English. Despite the growth of foreign language education in the…
Descriptors: Influences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Programs, Public Schools
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Clossey, Luke; Vintila, Vlad – History Teacher, 2019
With financial and methodological support from Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, the authors created and implemented modules involving foreign-language instruction--in literary Chinese, Dari, and Latin--in three upper-division history courses. Luke Clossey taught the courses, and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Cultural Awareness, College Instruction
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2018
This report describes lower- and upper-level undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in summer and fall 2016 reported by 2,547 AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting colleges and universities in the United States. Between fall 2013 and fall 2016, enrollments in languages other than English fell 9.2% in colleges and…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Enrollment, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
Lee, Jeong-Kyu – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the happiness and education principles of St. Augustine and Mozi through the primary and the secondary language resources. To review the paper logically, three research questions are addressed. First, what are the happiness principles of Augustine and Mozi? Second, what are the educational principles of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Content Analysis, Christianity, Educational Philosophy
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Reagan, Timothy – Educational Foundations, 2022
While there are many difficulties faced by world language educators, both teachers and students of certain languages--languages commonly identified with countries and cultures deemed to be hostile to the United States--often find themselves in uniquely paradoxical situations. This article begins with a brief anecdotal description of the personal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Indo European Languages
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Zhang, Yining; Lin, Chin-Hsi – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
As online K-12 education continues to expand, concerns about its quality have taken centre stage. This study utilised online learning satisfaction as an outcome indicator for the success of online learning, and investigated student- and teacher-level factors that affected it among 226 high school students taking online world language courses from…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, High School Teachers, Educational Quality, High School Students
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Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna; Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
Eye-tracking was used to investigate the attentional processes whereby different types of focus on form (FonF) instruction assist learners in overcoming learned attention and blocking effects in their online processing of second language input. English native speakers viewed Latin utterances combining lexical and morphological cues to temporality…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Attention, Second Language Learning, Latin
Goldberg, David; Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2015
SINCE 1958, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has gathered and analyzed data on undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in United States colleges and universities. The previous survey examined language enrollments in fall 2009; here the MLA presents its twenty-third survey in the series, describing trends…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Enrollment Trends
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Snow, Don – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
While the defining cases of diglossia offered in Charles Ferguson's 1959 article have long been useful as vehicles for introducing this important form of societal multilingualism, they are also problematic in that they differ from each other in a number of significant ways. This article proposes a modified and more precise framework in which…
Descriptors: Dialects, Multilingualism, Classification, Classical Languages
Schwartz, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages. This study was conducted to analyze how college-level adult learners of foreign languages experience transformative learning through educational and non-educational experiences. Mezirow's…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, College Students, Adult Students
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The current study investigates the limited attainment of adult language acquisition in terms of an associative learning phenomenon whereby earlier learned cues attentionally block those that are experienced later. Short- and long-term blocking are demonstrated in experimental investigations of learned attention in the acquisition of temporal…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Associative Learning, Early Experience
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Krzemien, Marta; Krotzer, Kate – Learning Languages, 2012
Foreign Language Elementary Summer Camp is a fantastic way to spend part of the summer. For the past ten years in Glastonbury, Connecticut, the authors have offered a variety of foreign language elementary camps that meet daily for three hours for three to four weeks during July. Currently, they offer camps for Chinese, English Language Learners…
Descriptors: Talent, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
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Kazi, Smaragda; Demetriou, Andreas; Spanoudis, George; Zhang, Xiang Kui; Wang, Yuan – Intelligence, 2012
This study investigated intellectual development in 4-7 years old Greek and Chinese children. They were examined on speeded performance, working memory, reasoning, and self-awareness tasks in order to investigate possible effects of learning the Chinese logographic system on possible differences in intellectual development between these ethnic…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Romanization, Chinese, Intellectual Development
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study investigates associative learning explanations of the limited attainment of adult compared to child language acquisition in terms of learned attention to cues. It replicates and extends Ellis and Sagarra (2010) in demonstrating short- and long-term learned attention in the acquisition of temporal reference in Latin. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Child Language