The Consciousness-Raising Movement. Will it Change Language Teaching?.

Chamberlain, Alan

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ERIC Number: EJ581947

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Publication Date: 1998

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The Consciousness-Raising Movement. Will it Change Language Teaching?

Chamberlain, Alan

Babel: Australia, v33 n3 p14-17,37-38 Oct-Dec 1998

Suggests that language awareness, or consciousness raising, has great potential in second-language learning. Language awareness presents students with linguistic data so they can work out grammatical rules for themselves. Offers a variety of examples of possible language-awareness lessons, first for the teaching of English, then for the teaching of French. (SM)

Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), French, Higher Education, Language Skills, Metalinguistics, Problem Solving, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - General

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Language: English

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