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Birdsong, David; Kassen, Margaret Ann – Modern Language Journal, 1988
Analysis of responses of native French-speaking (N=10) and English-speaking (N=10) college French instructors rating students' errors in French revealed that (1) native French speakers were more critical evaluators than native English speakers; (2) teachers were generally more critical evaluators than students; and (3) more fluent speakers were…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), French
Winke, Paula; Stafford, Cathy – 2002
Rapid demographic changes and an increasing recognition of the critical need for professionals who are proficient in languages other than English have led to an interest in developing language programs and classes for "heritage language learners" students who are raised in a home where a non-English language is spoken and who speak or at…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Heritage Education, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Ed.; Ranard, Donald A., Ed.; McGinnis, Scott, Ed. – 2001
This edited volume describes the population of heritage language speakers in the United States and outlines what needs to be done to help them develop their languages for use in academic and professional arenas. The book is divided into an introduction plus 14 chapters in 5 sections. The introduction, "Charting a New Course: Heritage Language…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Heritage Education, Higher Education, Language Attitudes
Johnson, Kimberly – 2001
This paper examines the process of identity formation of a nonnative English speaking (NNES) graduate student pursuing a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The factors that influence the formation of a professional identity are examined for nonnative English speaking TESOL pre-service professionals. An…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Higher Education
Ambrose, Dominic – Online Submission, 1995
Background: Politeness strategies vary from language to language and within each society. At times the wrong strategies can have disastrous effects. This can occur when languages are used by non-native speakers or when they are used outside of their own home linguistic context. Purpose: This study of spoken language compares the politeness…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentence Structure, Oral Language, Vocabulary
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Iwami, Ichiro – 2000
The purpose of this highly quantitative study is to manifest the direct effects of communicative learning in the context of public high school teaching in Japan. A small-scale (n=12) experiment was conducted to reveal intergroup differences. The experiment was based on the assumption that there are clear differences in the amount of input from and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Enright, D. Scott; And Others – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
A sociolinguistic analysis of language use among eight preschool children in a bilingual English/Hebrew classroom was conducted to examine the effects of teacher background (U.S. or Israeli born/educated) while interacting with children from bilingual or monolingual backgrounds and teacher's participation (presence or absence) in classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Environment, Educational Policy, English
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Doebler, Leland K.; Mardis, Larry J. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1980
After receiving instruction in reading, science, and mathematics in the Choctaw language by native-speaking paraprofessionals and supplementary instruction by the regular classroom teacher, Choctaw second graders had significantly higher posttest scores on science and social studies subtests than did the control group who received instruction in…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingual Education
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Fishman, Joshua A. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
Provides an overview of the approximately 1200 Ethnic Community Mother Tongue Schools (ECMTS) in the United States, describing some of their salient characteristics and noting relationships between these schools and the United States bilingual education movement. Explains six assumptions commonly made by ECMTS teachers and leaders. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students
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Saito, Hidetoshi; Beecken, Masako – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Investigated pragmatic transfer in American learners of Japanese responding to compliments. The study used a closed role play to collect interlanguage data from the learners and normative data from Japanese and American native speakers. Findings substantiate a utility of pragmatic transfer research for improving instructional approach and course…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Students, Course Content, Data Collection
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Zhong, Yong – Babel: Australia, 1993
Presents some policy issues regarding Chinese language courses for students whose mother tongue is Chinese or a dialect of Chinese. (five references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Heritage Education
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Hawkins, Roger; Yet-hung Chan, Cecilia – Second Language Research, 1997
Tested whether the predictions of a particular syntactically based theory about partial availability of universal grammar in post-critical-period second-language acquisition can provide insight into the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses. (48 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
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Wayland, Ratree – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Reports a study of the production of Thai vowels, consonants, and tones by native English speakers using two forms of evaluation: acoustic measurements and auditory evaluation by native Thai-speaking listeners. The study focused on the differences in acoustic parameters between the two groups and the acoustic parameter influencing native…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, English
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Walters, Joel; Wolf, Yuval – Language Awareness, 1996
Subjects (n=93) participated in an investigation of how the number of errors from different linguistic sources affects evaluative judgments about the need for revision in a non-native language. Results of the participation of non-native and native writers of English as well as of English as a foreign language teachers show that lexical errors have…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
This study extends previous research on the relationships among intelligibility, perceived comprehensibility, and accentedness. The researchers obtained accent and comprehensibility ratings and transcriptions of accented speech of Cantonese, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish intermediate English-as-a-Second-Language students from native English…
Descriptors: Cantonese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialects
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