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Hendrickson, James M. and Denk, Walter Josef – Hispania, 1988
Compares priorities of language functions (1) between community college and university studnets; (2) between students enrolled in traditional language courses and those in conversational language courses; and (3) among students in first-term French, German, and Spanish at a community college. Results are presented in six tables. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Community Colleges, French
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Dabene, Louise; Billiez, Jacqueline – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France was examined, and a model proposed for classification of code-switching according to speakers' intentions and the dynamics of the interaction. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills
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Young, Dolly J. – Foreign Language Annals, 1986
College students (N=60) majoring in French, German, or Spanish took Self-Appraisal of Speaking Proficiency and State Anxiety Inventory before being assessed by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Results showed that anxiety did not exert as much influence on scores as ability did. However, once…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, French, German
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Conlin, Christine – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1984
Outlines methods by which dialogs are produced in a program which teaches foreign languages to local British industries. Recommends that such dialogs on specialized topics be short and simple. Also discusses how role play and materials such as graphs, charts, forms, and diagrams can be used as language teaching material. (SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), French, German
Fritz, Kathleen M. – 2003
During academic year 2001-02, approximately 165 students in eight sections of Introductory Spanish and French completed weekly online quizzes as part of their final grades. While most of them completed traditional quizzes, two third-semester Spanish classes completed multimedia listening comprehension quizzes based on audio and video from the Web.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Uses in Education, Evaluation Methods, French
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Nickisch, Craig W., Ed. – Selecta: Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Languages, 1998
This journal publishes scholarly articles on all aspects of language pedagogy, linguistics, foreign cultures and languages, and comparative, classical, and foreign (Asian, French, German, Italian, Luso-Brazilian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Spanish, and Spanish American) literatures. It is published annually, based exclusively on a representative number…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), French, German
Cross, David – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1979
Outlines a second language program that, over a period of three years, exposes the student to three languages and several teachers and stresses communicative competence. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, French, German
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Salager-Meyer, Francoise; Ariza, Maria Angeles Alcaraz; Zambrano, Nahirana – English for Specific Purposes, 2003
Addresses the socio-pragmatic phenomenon of academic conflict from a cross-cultural and diachronic perspective. It is examined by combining a quantitative approach and a qualitative discoursal analysis of its salient rhetorical features in corpus of Spanish, French, and English medical articles published between 1930 and 1995. (VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Harlow, Linda L; Muyskens, Judith A. – Modern Language Journal, 1994
Priority goals and objectives of 1,373 intermediate-level college students of French and Spanish and their instructors were examined. Results show students' goal priorities to be related to oral/aural skills of speaking, listening, and pronunciation; instructors ranked speaking high but pronunciation low. The survey instrument is appended.…
Descriptors: College Students, French, Higher Education, Language Skills
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Garcia, Elvira – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Recommends a less Eurocentric view on second language learning, suggesting that French and German, and even Spanish, must give way to other world languages. This will involve reallocating resources among adjacent institutions so a variety of languages can be taught at the secondary and collegiate level, thus creating students competent in many…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Change, French, German
Donahue, Steven – Distance Education Report, 2001
Two programs that have been successful at integrating a number of suitable conditions for learning a foreign language in the online environment are Spanish at Rio Salado Community College in Tempe, Arizona, and French at Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, California. Discussion includes instructional delivery; course lab experience;…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Sarroub, Georgia Janavara – Modern Language Journal, 2001
Explores the process of implementing the Nebraska Foreign Language Frameworks in an urban, Midwestern school district. Participants were two elementary, two middle school, and two high school teachers; the languages taught were French and Spanish. Findings show that the six teachers implemented the frameworks differently, depending mainly on…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, French, High Schools
Cabalo, Jessica Villaruz; Ma, Boya; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2007
The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) was interested in evaluating components of a statewide pilot program to support instruction in World Languages (particularly Spanish and French). The first component was an online student assessment, the Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP) to measure the learning outcomes. The DDOE also…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Faculty Development
Schrade, Arlene – 1992
An institute in oral proficiency and teaching effectiveness for practicing secondary Spanish and French teachers is described. The spoken language classes of the institute took place daily, 4 hours per day for 4 weeks, using a modified Foreign Service Institute (FSI) method of small group instruction. Native speaker tutors were used who were…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, French, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Kennedy, James H. – 1992
Brief passages are presented that are appropriate for teachers to use on bulletin boards as introductions to seven American holidays. It is noted that learning about American holidays and celebrations is an excellent way for students, especially in English-as-a-Second-Language classes, to gain a better understanding of American culture. However,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bulletin Boards, Chinese, Classroom Techniques
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