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Publication Date: 2011
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Can Communicative Principles Enhance Classical Language Acquisition?
Overland, Paul; Fields, Lee; Noonan, Jennifer
Foreign Language Annals, v44 n3 p583-598 Fall 2011
Is it feasible for nonfluent instructors to teach Biblical Hebrew by communicative principles? If it is feasible, will communicative instruction enhance postsecondary learning of a classical language? To begin answering these questions, two consultants representing second language acquisition (SLA) and technology-assisted language learning led 8 Biblical Hebrew instructors and a graduate assistant through a 3-year process involving study of SLA principles, development of Biblical Hebrew classroom manuals, training of teachers, and field-testing of materials with more than 90 students in 7 institutions. More than two-thirds of the students and all instructors found the communicative approach both effective and preferable to grammar-translation and audiolingual methods customarily employed for learning classical languages. (Contains 21 notes.)
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Classical Languages, Audiolingual Methods, Second Language Instruction, Biblical Literature, Educational Technology, Communicative Competence (Languages), Guides, Consultants, Language Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Grammar, Translation, Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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