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Direct linkWhyte, Shona – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2011
Second language study in French universities includes both modern language (literary) and foreign language (communicative) approaches, although teaching is dominated by the literary strand. Traditional educational models based on the transmission of knowledge are unable to accommodate recent progress in our understanding of learning theory, which…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Language Research, Second Language Learning, French
Download full textXu, Huaxin – 1993
The question in English-As-Second-Language (ESL) classrooms is not whether a teaching method is good or not, but whether the teacher knows how, for what purpose, for what kind of students, and in what language situation a particular method is used to enhance learning effectively. In teaching English to Chinese students at Xi'an Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen
