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Tsongas, Paul E. – Foreign Language Annals, 1981
Presents case in favor of promoting second language study in the United States. Suggests language instruction must be oriented towards the business world. (BK)
Descriptors: Business, Cross Cultural Training, Second Language Learning
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Royer, Charles – Foreign Language Annals, 1981
Describes connection between the human resources of language and culture and the economic recovery of the United States. Explores necessity of political participation to accomplish this goal. (BK)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Progress, International Relations, Second Language Learning
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Higgs, Theodore V. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
Summarizes and discusses Krashen's "input hypothesis" as presented in his "Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition." Suggests that the input hypothesis fails to account convincingly for arrested second language acquisition in an acquisition-rich environment and that it is not directly applicable to U.S. high…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Learning Processes, Listening Comprehension, Psycholinguistics
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Crymes, Ruth – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
A project in which seasoned immigrant students developed guidelines for the use of incoming non-English speaking immigrant students for a bilingual Korean and English text is described. The guidelines were used for orientation and follow-up discussions about school and language attitudes. (SW)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, English (Second Language), Followup Studies