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Rivers, Wilga M. – Modern Language Journal, 1986
Reviews the theories which assert the necessity for prolonged intensive listening without expectations of production for some time in language teaching. Asserts that comprehension and production are indissoluble partners in the two-way process of communicative interaction and that teacher-directed and dominated classrooms are not interactive…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Language Research
Ringbom, Hakan – 1983
Formal and functional similarities in a learner's first and second languages (L1 and L2) facilitate the perception of cross-linguistic equivalence between individual items (phonemes, morphemes, words, and phrases). The beginning foreign language learner makes frequent use of these perceived equivalences when he learns to understand L2 items. This…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Audiolingual Skills, Encoding (Psychology), Language Research
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Parr, Patricia Chapman; Krashen, Stephen D. – System, 1986
Two studies of elementary, intermediate, and advanced second language learners indicated that involuntary rehearsal of second languages ("Din in the Head") is more frequently experienced by elementary and intermediate students and much less prevalent among advanced students, suggesting that the phenomenon is related to language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, College Students, Higher Education, Interlanguage