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Second Language Teaching and Learning in the Net Generation
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Oxford, Raquel, Ed.; Oxford, Jeffrey, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2009
Today's young people--the Net Generation--have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students' familiarity with technology in general transfers successfully to pedagogical settings. This volume examines various technologies and offers concrete advice on how each can be successfully implemented in the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Educational Technology
Looking Back on East Germany: A Literature Course to Advance Foreign Language Skills and Build Cultural Understanding.
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Kym, Annette – Unterrichtspraxis, 1993
This article describes how a course viewing East German literature from the perspective of the new Germany can be planned and taught, with special attention to text selection, class activities, and testing strategies designed to raise linguistic proficiency of students of different language levels in one literature class. (Author/AB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, German
Entwicklung eines Einstufungstests fuer Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Universitaet Bonn (Developing a Placement Test for German as a Foreign Language at the University of Bonn).
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Kummer, Manfred; And Others – Zielsprache Deutsch, 1978
Discusses various test types, and specifically the placement test for German as a foreign language at Bonn University, describing the segments: multiple-choice questions and "fill-in" dictations based on given texts. Test content varies according to students' nationality. Grading procedures are also described. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, German, Grading
Elaboration d'unites capitalisables en fonction d'un niveau-seuil (Development of Functional Units in a Threshold Level Context).
Lohezic, Bernard; Perusat, Jean-Marie – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Outlines sample exercises developed in a program designed to teach minimal (threshold level) competencies based on students' communication needs and the concept of a notional syllabus. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Objectives, French, Language Instruction