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Language Education for Ageing Students.
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Brandle, Maximilian – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
The different learning abilities of senior citizens and ways that older students can successfully maximize their learning effort in a class essentially designed for younger learners are discussed. Because of a regressed transformational drill behavior, the pedagogical hypothesis and the teaching strategy must de-emphasize a consistent audiolingual…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction
Realistic Communication through Assertiveness Training Techniques.
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Walz, Joel C. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Self-help activities designed to practice and improve communication are outlined. Sixteen learning activities are proposed that are based on assertiveness training. They can be used on all language levels to develop all four skills. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency
Why Speak if You Don't Need To? The Case for a Listening Approach to Beginning Foreign Language Learning. CATESOL Occasional Papers, No. 5.
Gary, Judith Olmsted – 1979
The rationale for delayed oral practice in language teaching is that the same rules underlie both speaking and listening and that the student has to understand how a language works before being capable of creating a sentence in the language. Having to focus on speaking performance as well as on listening comprehension distracts the learner from…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Language Research