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Rebecca S. Borden – NECTFL Review, 2024
This classroom practice article explores the integration of TalkAbroad, an online language conversation platform, in an undergraduate World Languages Education program to support pre-service language teachers' oral proficiency development. Two pre-service teachers, facing challenges like family responsibilities and limited study abroad…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Speech Skills, Language Proficiency, Preservice Teachers
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Rankin, Beckie Bray; Casey, Ryan – NECTFL Review, 2022
As students feel empowered to select their own goals, they forge their own journeys to success. A culturally sustaining tool, student reflection is an informative practice for self-paced growth in language learning and beyond. A French and a Spanish teacher share their protocols to bring goal-setting into any classroom, along with the research and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Learning Processes, Goal Orientation, Independent Study
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Hochberg, Judy – NECTFL Review, 2019
This paper argues for bringing insights from linguistics into the world language classroom. At any level of study, such insights can add intellectual interest to the study of a target language (TL), and can also help students accept and acquire aspects of the TL that are different from their first language or that are inherently challenging. As a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Chinese, French, German
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Conboy, Ana F.; Ugalde, Esther Gimeno; Reuber, Alexandra – NECTFL Review, 2017
Student interactive exchanges with native speakers of a target language may increase learners' self-confidence, production, and oral comprehension in the target language, as well as students' intercultural communicative competence (ICC). One approach to interactive exchanges is video-conferencing (VC). This article discusses three experiences with…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Native Speakers, Spanish, French
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Fonder-Solano, Leah; Burnett, Joanne – NECTFL Review, 2018
In this study, 64 master's students and program graduates in French, Spanish, and TESOL evaluated their online experiences in two areas in which learning effectiveness is often questioned in online settings: linguistic proficiency and cultural knowledge. This study was informed by national data documenting attitudes toward online learning,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Language Proficiency, French
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Lessard-Clouston, Michael – NECTFL Review, 2016
While the role of culture in second and/or foreign language (L2/FL) learning and teaching has often been unquestioned, empirical research on culture learning and teaching in L2/FL education has been less common than opinion-oriented writings in relevant journals. This article offers a summary and synthesis of 52 empirical studies on L2/FL culture…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication