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Negotiating Curricular Transitions: Foreign Language Teachers' Learning Experience with Content-Based Instruction
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Cammarata, Laurent – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
Content-based instruction (CBI) has been touted as an effective curricular approach in a wide range of educational contexts, including immersion and English as a second language. Yet this approach to curriculum design is rarely implemented in conventional K-16 foreign language (FL) programs in the United States today. The phenomenological study…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Recherche des besoins langagiers d'adultes en milieu professionnel (Research into the Language Needs of Adults in the Professional Setting).
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Dos Ghali, Dominique; Tremblay, Denis – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1980
Describes a research project based on a questionnaire designed to determine the language needs in French of English-speaking Canadian diplomats assigned overseas. (AM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingualism, Educational Needs, Foreign Diplomats
L1 Use in the L2 Classroom: One Teacher's Self-Evaluation
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Edstrom, Anne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2006
Predominant, if not exclusive, use of the target language has long been considered an important principle of second language (L2) instruction. Previous research has attempted to quantify the amount of the first language (L1) used in the classroom and has explored the purposes or functions of teachers' "lapses" into their students' L1. The present…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Spanish, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
Sustaining Language Teachers as Researchers of Their Own Practice.
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Burton, Jill – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1997
Examines classroom research as a means of professional renewal for language teachers, drawing on experiences in an Australian program to train teachers as action researchers with the support of a research community. Concludes that incorporation of professional renewal processes in formal classroom research projects is a way to maintain teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development
Teachers, Administrators, and Researchers Work Together in Classroom Observation Research: A Professional Development Opportunity.
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Ullmann, Rebecca – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1991
Three case studies illustrate how recent classroom observation research has led to more active participation on the part of teachers, principals, and supervisors. The groups have worked closely to understand how the core French program works in the classroom. Participatory research is seen as an important professional development opportunity for…
Descriptors: Administrators, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
What My Students Heard that I Didn't Know I Said: Reflections on Learner Feedback in a Spanish Composition Course
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Edstrom, Anne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2003
This study analyzed the implementation of a pre-writing activity that was designed to address L2 student writers' tendency to focus on grammatical accuracy to the exclusion of content and structure. The participants, students in a university-level Spanish composition course, were given a rubric with which to evaluate three previously written…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Group Discussion, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
Second Language Pre-Service Teachers as Learners: The Language Portfolio Project
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Christiansen, Helen; Laplante, Bernard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This article reports on a study of pre-service French immersion teachers who were required to compile second language (L2) portfolios as part of their professional development. Documents included a brief biography of the students' lives as speakers and learners of French; an action plan in which students assessed their L2 proficiency and set…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers