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Learning Theory and Technology in University Foreign Language Education: The Case of French Universities
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Whyte, Shona – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2011
Second language study in French universities includes both modern language (literary) and foreign language (communicative) approaches, although teaching is dominated by the literary strand. Traditional educational models based on the transmission of knowledge are unable to accommodate recent progress in our understanding of learning theory, which…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Language Research, Second Language Learning, French