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Watanabe, Yoshinori – Language Testing, 1996
Presents a case study investigating whether there is any connection between university entrance examinations in English as a Second Language in Japan and the prevalence of grammar-translation teaching there. Findings reveal that teacher factors, such as educational background, personal beliefs, and teaching experience may outweigh the possible…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Cunningham, Denis – Babel: Australia, 1998
Presents a history of the use of technology in second-language instruction, beginning with the 1960s and the grammar translation method; through the audiolingual movement and language laboratories; into emerging use of tape recorders, videotapes, and computer-assisted language learning; and up through computer-assisted instruction, distance…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Stern, H. H. – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1978
This paper presents historical information about language teaching methods and focuses on "formal" and "functional" strategies of teaching and learning. Particular attention is directed toward the immersion type of education. A table that lists developments in language teaching theory from 1840-1977 is presented. A table that summarizes…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Experiential Learning
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Bamford, Julian; Day, Richard R. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Four approaches to the teaching of second language (L2) reading are described (grammar-translation, comprehension questions/exercises, skills and strategies, and extensive reading) and their status in the reading classroom is examined, and important issues in L2 reading are then discussed, including word recognition, affective and sociocultural…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Grammar Translation Method
Smith, Larry E. – 1975
This paper presents an overview of the English teaching situation in Asia, with particular emphasis on Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of China, Singapore, and Thailand. A distinction is drawn between ESL countries, in which English instruction begins at the elementary level and is frequently used as the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Developing Nations, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
Chellappan, K. – International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 1981
This paper focuses on the mechanism by which the successful learner acquires a second language. The author postulates a core language, the common core of the speaker's native and target languages, and states that the second language becomes an extension of this common core. Whatever language-specific features are added while acquiring the second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dravidian Languages, French
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