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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
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Schwieter, John W., Ed.; Benati, Alessandro, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this "Handbook," written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Theories
Profiling Language and Culture Strategy Use Patterns of ESL Student Teachers in Study Abroad by Using Self-Reported Data
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Ma, Anne; Wong, Ruth M. H.; Lam, Wendy Y. K. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
This paper addresses a niche in studies on immersion programmes for English as second language learners. While studies on the impact of the experience of studying abroad are replete with reports about the enhancement of participants' language proficiency or intercultural skills, the present study investigates the types of language and culture…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Teachers, Language Teachers, Study Abroad
For Doing Business Abroad, How Much Foreign Language Proficiency is Enough?
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Gould, John W. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1986
Suggests that business communication students learn a foreign language, concentrating on conversation more than reading, in order to interact more effectively with foreign clients. (SRT)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries
Assessment of Oral Communicative Skills in Early French Immersion Programmes.
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Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The British Columbia French Speaking Test, administered to grade 3 immersion students, measured their speaking skills through a story- retelling and group discussion task. When 110 immersion children were compared to 25 Francophone children, results indicated that the immersion children were comparable to the francophones in communicative skills…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, FLES
Language Use at Home and School: A Synthesis of Research for Pacific Educators. Research Series.
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Brown, Zoe Ann; Hammond, Ormond W.; Onikama, Denise L. – 1997
This publication reviews research findings on selected aspects of home and school language usage in the Pacific region, which is a multilingual context with English as the common language. Patterns of indigenous and English language vary considerably across geographical areas. Traditional cultures and languages are changing rapidly. The wide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Communication Skills
Strategies of Communication Used by Native and Non-Native Speakers of French. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 17.
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Hamayan, Else V.; Tucker, G. Richard – 1979
This study describes certain communication strategies used by Anglophone children learning French as a second language as well as by children whose mother tongue is French. Three groups of children in the third and fifth grades participated in the study: French native speakers, Anglophone children learning French in an immersion setting, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education
Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency.
Leaver, Betty Lou, Ed.; Shekhtman, Boris, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers examines approaches to teaching near-native ability in foreign languages. The 13 papers focus on the following: (1) "Principles and Practices in Teaching Superior-Level Language Skills: Not Just More of the Same" (Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman); (2) "Toward Academic Level Foreign Language Abilities:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advanced Students, Arabic, Chinese