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Salcedo, Claudia S. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Music represents an integral part of the human culture, and particularly language and communication. Music can be a powerful tool in the learning experience. The purpose of the present study is to investigate whether English native-speaker students learning a foreign language can benefit from integrating music into the curriculum. Students' text…
Descriptors: Music, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Recall (Psychology)
Chu, Marilyn; Martinez-Griego, Barbara; Cronin, Sharon – Young Children, 2010
Education qualification requirements for early childhood teachers are increasing in many types of federal, state, and community-based early childhood programs. The 2007 reauthorization of Head Start requires all teachers to have associate degrees and 50 percent to have earned a baccalaureate degree in early childhood education by the year 2013. At…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, College School Cooperation
Pray, Lisa; Marx, Sherry – Teacher Educator, 2010
In this article, we compared teacher attitudes and beliefs about culturally appropriate language teaching resulting from an examination of two groups of preservice teachers. One group of preservice teachers enrolled in an English as a Second Language (ESL) study abroad program in Mexico; the other enrolled in a traditional on-campus ESL program.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes
Alarcon, Irma – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This article reports on an extensive survey administered to advanced heritage language (HL) learners to examine their language behaviors, attitudes, and backgrounds. To date, there have been no detailed categorizations of advanced HL learners to guide classroom instruction and curriculum design. Thus the present study is a first attempt to fill…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Sociolinguistics, Profiles, Writing Skills
Coryell, Joellen E.; Clark, M. Carolyn – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This study investigated self-assessed anxious learners who enrolled in online Spanish courses to determine if their anxiety was mediated by the lack of face-to-face (F2F) and other synchronous learning interactions. Participants were enrolled in courses at two postsecondary institutions located in south-central Texas. Narrative analysis was used…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Spanish, Anxiety
Pichette, Francois – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This study compared anxiety profiles of classroom and distance language learners, and compared anxiety levels between first-semester and more experienced students in both learning environments. Participants were 186 French-speaking learners of English or Spanish, who were tested in Canada in 2006. They were tested for general foreign language…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Profiles
Marcos-Llinas, Monica; Garau, Maria Juan – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This article investigates the effects of language anxiety on course achievement in three foreign language proficiency levels of Spanish, namely, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Participants completed the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986) and a background questionnaire. Results showed that language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Anxiety, Spanish
Thomas, Juan Antonio – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study aims to identify the two principal reasons why college students choose a certain language to satisfy a general education second language requirement by polling 172 students enrolled in first-year language courses in 13 languages at a large Northeastern research university. Students answered a questionnaire and chose the two main reasons…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, College Students
Alario, F.-Xavier; Ayora, Pauline; Costa, Albert; Melinger, Alissa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Closed-class word selection was investigated by focusing on determiner production. Native speakers from three different languages named pictures of objects using determiner plus noun phrases (e.g., in French "la table" (the [subscript feminine] table), while ignoring distractor determiners printed on the pictures (e.g., "le"…
Descriptors: Nouns, Grammar, Native Speakers, Experiments
Post, David – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
Ecuador's 2008 Constitution--and a subsequent law on higher education passed in its wake--effectively suspended student fees for public universities. The goal of this reform was to increase equality of opportunity. In this article I use newly-available individual-level retrospective information from the 2001 Census to explore gender and ethnic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Salazar, Danica; Verdaguer, Isabel – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The present study is a corpus-based analysis of a selection of polysemous lexical verbs used to express modality in student argumentative writing. Twenty-three lexical verbs were searched for in three 100,000-word corpora of argumentative essays written in English by American, Filipino and Spanish university students. Concordance lines were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse
Altstaedter, Laura Levi; Jones, Brett – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
According to the National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, one of the ultimate goals of studying a foreign language is to better understand different cultures. To this end, we implemented a project in an undergraduate foreign language course that promoted a systematic inquiry-based approach to learning about the Hispanic culture.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Culture, Second Language Instruction, National Standards, Second Language Learning
Zyzik, Eve – Language Awareness, 2009
This study investigates learners' knowledge of word classes (i.e. noun, verb, adjective) in their second language (L2). Although some L2 studies have examined the problem of word class indirectly through a focus on vocabulary and the teaching of derivational morphology (Morin, 2003, 2006; Schmitt & Zimmerman, 2002), little is known about learners'…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
Guerrero, Michael D.; Farruggio, Peter – Education Inquiry, 2012
The current era of neoliberal capitalism has witnessed the domination of public education by business interests which openly promote the spirit of competition among schools, educators and students through a policy of high stakes accountability for immediately measurable educational outcomes. In the USA, this policy proposes to make teacher…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Accountability, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy
Ball, Mary Isabelle – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This descriptive study investigated the levels of oral proficiency of candidates for initial PreK-12 teacher licensure in Spanish and French as reported by faculty and students in the teacher education programs at Ohio colleges and universities. The study was motivated by the adoption of the NCATE/ACTFL "Program standards for the preparation…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Interviews