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Budach, Gabriele; Efremov, Dimitri; Loghin, Daniela; Sharoyan, Gohar – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
This article explores what happens when humans, objects, and digital technology collaborate in creating a short stop-motion film. It investigates how animation making as a hugely repetitive mechanical process interlinks with language, communication, and learning, and how it can affect our responsiveness and readiness to communicate. The article…
Descriptors: Animation, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Flaubert Takam, Alain; Gillis, Steven A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
The purpose of this article is to investigate the perceptions and attitudes of such key stakeholders as students, parents, and teachers in Ontario's FSL program, and what potential impacts such attitudes could have on future participation in FSL learning in secondary schools in the province. It also examines some prevailing teaching and learning…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Fischer, Brett; Viens, Danielle; Rondeau, Diane; Turgeon-Gouin, Catherine; Plaxton, Elizabeth – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
Globalization and new technologies mean that additional-language students now have unprecedented access to naturalistic interactions with native or highly competent speakers (HCSs). Even though a majority of students would still prefer to have teacher guidance in these interactions, only some teachers may want or be able to do so. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Outcomes of Education
Van Viegen Stille, Saskia; Bethke, Robin; Bradley-Brown, Jackie; Giberson, Janet; Hall, Gillian – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2016
This paper reports research findings relating to a recent initiative to build capacity and support professional learning among educators to meet the needs of English language learners in Ontario schools. Drawing on data from case studies of educator teams in 16 school districts, the paper explores whether and how collaborative inquiry promoted…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
Despagne, Colette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This critical ethnographic case study draws on Indigenous and minority students' process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Mexico. The study specifically focuses on students who enrolled in a program called "A Wager with the Future." The aim of the study is to identify and understand contributing factors in these…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Mexicans, English (Second Language), Power Structure
Comanaru, Ruxandra; Noels, Kimberly A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
The motivation of 145 learners of Chinese was examined in light of self-determination theory through a questionnaire survey. The results showed that the more learners felt they were learning Chinese because it was personally meaningful and fun, the more they engaged in the learning process. This orientation was promoted to the extent that learners…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Learning Motivation, Social Psychology, Self Determination
Mady, Callie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
In Canada, education in French as a second language (FSL) offers students the opportunity to learn a second official language. Is such an opportunity appropriate for allophone students who are still in the process of learning English? This literature review provides a fourfold consideration of the issue. Section 1 examines the political response…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, French

Myers, Marie J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
Lack of knowledge of learning psychology is the underlying reason for failure in second language learning. The highest cognitive step is not given the required attention. The unanswered question is whether an institutional setting allows for this, or whether an immersion program should be a mandatory complement to any program. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Immersion Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes

Caravolas, Jean – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Examination of the language teaching principles of Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670), the father of modern language teaching, as an autonomous discipline, reveals strikingly modern answers to some fundamental questions: What is language?; How are languages learned?; Who should learn them and why?; and What should be taught, and how? (MSE)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational History, Educational Strategies, Learning Processes

Rivers, Wilga M.; Melvin, Bernice S. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1977
Discusses the superiority of information processing (IP) theory to stimulus-response theory, specifically in terms of language comprehension, language production, and the role of memory. (KM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing, Learning Processes

Marx, Nicole – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2002
Examines second language (L2) and second culture (C2) acquisition by focusing on identity and more specifically on changes in L2 accent. Explains changes in the L2 accent and later in the first language (L1) accent, applying the metaphor of self-translation as a general framework for explaining processes of L2 learning and L1 loss, and the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Language Skill Attrition, Learning Processes

Hummel, Kirsten M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Drawing on research on memory and on the effectiveness of pairing first-language dialogue with second-language script, and through analysis of the language processing occurring in the translation process, it is argued that translation may be an effective technique for second language instruction. (12 references) (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, Language Processing, Learning Processes

Reiss, Mary-Ann – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1983
Reviews the research literature on strategies and techniques employed by successful language learners and discusses the results of a questionnaire administered to 85 students, which dealt with specific learning tasks and their individual strategies. Responses of 18 A students are compared with responses of 18 C/D students. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Learning Processes, Personality Traits

Rivers, Wilga M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
An adult learner of Spanish presents a diary outlining the process of learning Spanish during her five-week program in South America. (AM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Diaries, Grammar

Stern, H. H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1976
This article discusses the question of the optimal age for second language learning by providing some background and by comparing relevant British and Canadian language teaching programs. (CLK)
Descriptors: Age, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education