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Mutlu, Gülçin; Yildirim, Ali – SAGE Open, 2019
This study attempted to investigate the ability of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom learning environment and student background characteristics to predict student persistence in EFL learning. The study also aimed to investigate whether the associations between learning environment characteristics and persistence varied by several…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Kienbaum, Barbara E.; And Others – 1986
A college second language program compared the effectiveness of traditional second language instruction and a communicative approach in second year French, German, and Spanish courses. The communicative classes used only authentic materials, thematically organized and prepared for classroom use by the instructors. Similar topics were addressed in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Holec, H. – 1974
This article presents an analysis of a course in oral English created at the University of Nancy in 1974 for adult beginning students of English as a second language. The linguistic foundations of the course are discussed (verbal communication and communicative competence), as well as its psychopedagogic and pedagogic bases (cognitive approach,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiovisual Aids, College Language Programs