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Milena Kuehnast; Konstantin Schulz; Anke Lüdeling – Cogent Education, 2024
The present paper evaluates the processes of reading acquisition in Latin from the component-skills approach and discusses how advances in reading in modern foreign languages could be adapted to the specific needs of Latin as a historical language. Compared to the holistic and socially embedded approaches to modern foreign language acquisition,…
Descriptors: Latin, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Arens, A. Katrin; Helm, Friederike; Wolff, Fabian; Möller, Jens – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
This study extended the internal/external reference model to multiple languages including students' language of instruction, first foreign language, and second foreign language. We examined whether social and dimensional comparisons play similar roles in the formation of students' self-concept related to different languages and whether dimensional…
Descriptors: Self Concept, German, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Schröder, Konrad – Language Learning Journal, 2018
The paper gives an overview of FLT in the German-speaking regions of Europe from medieval times to the present day, within a framework of language politics, communicative needs and educational ideologies. The languages addressed are French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian and Turkish. Basic social and professional data of the various groups of…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History
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Haag, Ludwig; Stern, Elsbeth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
Studies whether Latin or French as a foreign curricular language is a better preparation for learning Spanish. Participants who had learned French at school made markedly fewer grammar errors and slightly fewer vocabulary errors in the Spanish test that participants who had learned Latin. Concludes that knowledge of Latin is probably not an…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Foreign Countries, French, Latin
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Dilevko, Juris; Dali, Keren – Intercultural Education, 2006
The evolving field of Book History has had difficulty in integrating the experiences of immigrant culture. In explaining the origins of print culture in North America, Book History has a tendency to associate lowbrow with immigrants and their struggles to establish a foothold in a new land. Book History therefore symbolically defines immigrant…
Descriptors: Books, History, Ideology, Immigrants
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Lindmark, Daniel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2004
This article investigates the function served by embarking on a teaching career in the Latin school system for recruitment to the clergy in early modern Sweden. The study is restricted to the eighty-nine teachers serving at Pitea Grammar School in Northern Sweden in the period from 1650 to 1849. The investigation pays considerable attention to the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Careers, Clergy, Foreign Countries
Smith, Wm. Flint, Ed. – 1991
This book, the second of two volumes devoted to instructional media in second language instruction, focuses on specific applications of advanced technology in the classroom. The first part, "Applications," contains seven chapters. They are: "The Language Laboratory in the Computer Age" (S. E. K. Otto); "Television…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software