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Brown, Alan V. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
Foreign language (FL) teachers and students may have very similar or disparate notions of effective teaching, and the intersection of the two sets of beliefs has ramifications for language learning and the effectiveness of instruction. Horwitz (1990), Kern (1995), and Schulz (1996) have argued that mismatches between FL students' and teachers'…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness, Second Languages, Second Language Instruction
Zelman, Nancy Ellen – 1986
The book provides over 1,200 conversation topics for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction, grouped into six kinds of conversation activities. An introductory chapter describes the monitored conversation procedure, a classroom technique for recognizing language usage errors and reinforcing the correct form or vocabulary item. Subsequent…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Conversational Language Courses