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Direct linkLevy, Mike; Steel, Caroline – ReCALL, 2015
This paper investigates the extent of electronic dictionary use by language learners in an Australian university. All students in the study are formally enrolled in language courses across ten languages at first, second or third year level. The study places a particular emphasis on gauging student perceptions of the beneficial aspects of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Dictionaries
Download full textGoldberg, David; Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2015
SINCE 1958, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has gathered and analyzed data on undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in United States colleges and universities. The previous survey examined language enrollments in fall 2009; here the MLA presents its twenty-third survey in the series, describing trends…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Enrollment Trends
Huang, Yi-Tzu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Having acquired some degree of oral proficiency but low (or non-existent) literacy, the learning of Chinese heritage learners' (CHLs) learning needs are different from those of Chinese foreign language learners (CFLs), who have learned Chinese only in the classroom setting. Although researchers have advocated for a separate curriculum for…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
Schenker, Theresa – CALICO Journal, 2012
This paper presents the findings of a six-week telecollaborative project between sixteen American students enrolled in a second-semester German class at an American university and sixteen German students enrolled in an advanced English course at a high school in Germany. Students discussed various cultural topics with their partner in two e-mails…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication
Absalom, Matthew – Babel, 2011
In a period of renewed efforts to encourage language study in Australia, with a particular view to increasing the number of students completing secondary school and studying a language, consideration of the reasons behind retention and attrition of students becomes paramount. In this preliminary study, which surveyed nearly 200 students entering…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Gender Discrimination
Smith, Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The qualitative research describes the experience of an instructor, participants, and researcher in a community college-based Chinese language class. Tse's (2000) Foreign Language Autobiographies (FLA), classroom observations, student vignette interviews and observations accompanied by field notes were the sources of data for this study.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
Pratt, Comfort – Hispania, 2010
This article is part of a large-scale project on the study of Spanish in high school that reports on an investigation of the low college enrollments in Spanish courses of students who study Spanish in high school. An online survey was administered to 631 high school students studying Spanish and 19 Spanish teachers, and the results revealed that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Motivation, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedHunt, J. A. – Babel, 1972
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Methods, Modern Languages, Secondary Schools
Peer reviewedRodini, Robert J. – Italica, 1973
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Courses, English, Italian Literature
Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1971
Descriptors: Administrators, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements, Educational Objectives
Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1971
Descriptors: Administrators, Degree Requirements, Language Enrollment, Modern Languages
Beanblossom, Gary F.; Hanzeli, Victor E. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1972
Compares language enrollments in universities in the State of Washington with national enrollment figures for 1966 through 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Language Enrollment, Modern Languages, Relevance (Education)
Lebano, Edoardo A. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1973
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Italian, Language Enrollment
Chapman, Hugh H., Jr.; Kellander, Donald H. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1973
Results of a survey presented at the triennial convention of the Phi Sigma Iota Romance Language Honor Society, October 5-8, 1972, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (DS)
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Departments, Educational Trends, Language Enrollment
Peer reviewedMead, Robert G., Jr. – Hispania, 1970
Address delivered at the annual meeting of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Birmingham, England, April 21, 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Enrollment, Language Instruction, Portuguese
