This overview article focuses on the co-teaching model, an innovative and comprehensive model for student teaching experiences that provides opportunities to foreign language preservice teachers to develop their knowledge base about teaching and learning foreign languages while gaining in other areas: autonomy, collaboration, and agency. The…

Factors important to the success of televised FLES programs are identified and discussed. These include--cooperation of secondary school teachers, training methods for the classroom teacher, team teaching, a procedure for the classroom teacher, teaching techniques, choosing a televised FLES program, and FLES in the elementary school curriculum.…

Discusses a course intended to: (1) foster a two-way interaction and commitment between the university and the hispanic community; (2) acquaint students with the local resources for using Spanish and with local manifestations of Hispanic culture patterns; and (3) experiment with team teaching. (Author/NCR)

Effective individualized instruction and increased student participation in foreign language communication skills could be achieved by a team-teaching approach. A team, comprised of the regular foreign language teacher and a number of volunteer advanced students, could (1) present listening comprehension materials, (2) evaluate pronunciation and…