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Direct linkSandra Preusler; Johanna Fleckenstein; Steffen Zitzmann; Jürgen Baumert; Jens Möller – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Multilingualism is often associated with advantages for acquiring additional languages. Theoretical approaches explain these advantages by assuming a Common Underlying Proficiency or a Metalinguistic Awareness. At the State Europe School in Berlin, students from different language backgrounds receive instruction in German and a partner language…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, German, English (Second Language)
Brunswick, Nicola, Ed.; McDougall, Sine, Ed.; de Mornay Davies, Paul, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and developmental dyslexia in alphabetic and non-alphabetic…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading, Dyslexia, Spelling
Download full textPineda, Jorge E. – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2010
This is a small scale, inductive, ethnographic study whose objective is to explore the language learning strategies used by the students of different languages at a language program at the university level. Students of English, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and German participate in the study. Three instruments are used…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, French, Portuguese
Napier Boyer, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to ascertain if the reading comprehension skills of English-speaking fifth grade students improve when they study a second language. The research was done in an inner-city elementary school in Rochester, New York. The researcher provided a weekly after-school workshop in foreign languages for a group of children…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication
Peer reviewedHammadou, JoAnn – Modern Language Journal, 1991
A study investigated aspects of reading comprehension for familiar and unfamiliar topics among native and nonnative English-speaking college students enrolled in French and Italian courses. Results suggest that, as comprehension proficiency improves, qualitative differences appear rather than just quantitative ones. Background knowledge was found…
Descriptors: College Students, French, Higher Education, Inferences
Ferrario, Elena – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses a study designed to verify the validity and effectiveness of the summary as a teaching and testing tool. The subjects were Italian students enrolled in second year French at the university level. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Higher Education, Italian
Ingram, D. E. – 1982
Results of testing the validity and reliability of the Australian second language proficiency ratings (ASLPR) are presented. In addition to providing a framework for planning English as a second language programs for immigrants to Australia, the ASLPR was developed to specify second language proficiency in terms of practical language skills. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Italian, Japanese
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, London (England). – 1984
A directory of United Kingdom (UK) organizations and centers that provide services of interest to language teachers and researchers is presented. The organizations are associations and societies that are concerned with language, linguistics, language teaching and research, and the most important groups concerned with educational technology and…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Roberts, Arnold R., Ed.; And Others – 1972
This foreign language curriculum guide for secondary school French and Italian includes the instructional objectives and activities for each language learning level and its corresponding suggested school grade. For French, there is a further breakdown according to language skills, grammar, reading, structures, conversation, and culture and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Audiolingual Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
