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Download full textLessard-Clouston, Michael – NECTFL Review, 2016
While the role of culture in second and/or foreign language (L2/FL) learning and teaching has often been unquestioned, empirical research on culture learning and teaching in L2/FL education has been less common than opinion-oriented writings in relevant journals. This article offers a summary and synthesis of 52 empirical studies on L2/FL culture…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
Peer reviewedCziko, Gary A.; And Others – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
A study of attitudes of English-speaking Canadian elementary school students, half of whom had participated in a French immersion program, indicated that extensive experience with another group's language led to reduction in the extensity of the language ethnicity dimension and in differences perceived between self, one's own ethnolinguistic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, French, Immersion Programs
Regent, O. – 1980
Recent studies on written communication have emphasized the importance of discourse organization and rhetoric for the learning of reading and writing in a foreign language. This paper describes an attempt at a contrastive study of specialized discourse in French and in English. A corpus of medical articles all on the same subject has been analysed…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Training
Bourque, Lorraine Y.; Boss, Marvin – 1979
A rating scale was developed that could be used to test Raynor's construct of perceived instrumentality--that the perceived importance of a particular achievement (such as a good grade) to the student's future (career) influences the student's efforts to achieve the goal. The scale was developed to study the perceived importance of learning French…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Foreign Countries, French, High Schools
Direct linkMarsden, Emma – Language Learning, 2006
The research reported here tests the claim made in the Input Processing approach to second language (L2) acquisition that interpreting the meaning of language form is essential for learning. This claim has been put forward as an underlying part of the pedagogical package known as Processing Instruction (PI) (VanPatten, 1996, 2002a, 2004). Two…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Research Reports
Cooper, Thomas C. – 1978
A study was conducted with the following objectives: (1) to determine if sentence-combining practice would prove to be an efficient way of promoting statistically significant syntactic development in the writing of third quarter college students of French, German, and Spanish; (2) to apply the methodology for analysis of writing samples to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, German, Higher Education
