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Heuer, Helmut – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
Analyzes the difference between "ultimate-target language" (authentic English in all its varieties), "learner's language" (with its limitations), and "learning-goal language," this latter referring to differentiated instruction with graded "input" steps. Teaching suggestions are given. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
Winitz, Harris; And Others – 1985
In the comprehension approach to second language instruction, the major procedure is to provide students with comprehensible input, which it is the students' responsibility to understand. The aim is to encourage nucleation of the target language, that is the crystallization of the rule system. Teaching procedures focus on strategies for implicit…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Quality, German, Intensive Language Courses
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed to accompany an orientation seminar for students concerning language learning processes and strategies and the design of their program includes materials for five sessions, in three sections. The first section covers language learning and acquisition in general and contains a survey of the participants' foreign language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization, Interlanguage
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Gorbet, Frances – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Discusses the value of classifying the errors adult language learners make and of comparing them to errors made by children. It is suggested that teachers correct student errors in the same way parents correct children's errors in order to encourage successful learning. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed as a guide for trainers in a seminar for teachers concerning some of the central issues in contemporary foreign language teaching and learning presents notes on each of the five seminar sessions, including overall goals and goals for the prescribed session activity, time and procedural notes, and reading lists. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed to accompany a seminar for teachers concerning some of the central issues in contemporary foreign language teaching and focusing on how adults go about acquiring language includes materials for five sessions, in three sections. The first section covers language learning and acquisition in general, and contains a survey of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization