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Breathing Life into New Speakers: Nsyilxcn and Tlingit Sequenced Curriculum, Direct Acquisition, and Assessments
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Johnson, S?ímla?w Michele K. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2017
Many Indigenous languages are critically endangered and faced with the urgent need to create parent-aged advanced speakers. This goal requires sequenced curriculum, effective teaching methods, students being supported to spend more than 2,000 hours on task, and regular assessments. In response to this urgent need the author followed a proven…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Textbooks, Second Language Learning
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
Focus on the Classroom: Cross-Cultural Awareness for Second/Foreign Language Learners
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Knutson, Elizabeth – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2006
This article proposes a reconsideration of curricular objectives with respect to the teaching of culture, in the interest of broadening the humanistic scope of the second/foreign language curriculum while at the same time alleviating the pressure of a typically over-extended instructional agenda. Recent research and theory support a relational…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cultural Differences, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods
Using Process Writing as a Learning Tool in the Foreign Language Class.
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White, Ann S.; Caminero, Rosario – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Discusses ways in which the process of composing may be integrated into the curriculum as part of the learning process. Group writing assignments, peer editing, and the multiple revisions allowed in process writing serve to demystify the task of writing in a foreign language and provide students with opportunities to learn from each other. (eight…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
New Canadian ESL and FSL Materials in Second Language Pedagogy.
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Weinrib, Alice – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
This bibliography contains recent Canadian publications, most dated since 1990, related to the teaching of English and French as second languages. It includes curriculum materials such as language practice materials and readers, as well as professional publications, such as books, research reports, and curriculum guidelines. (85 references)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French
A Curricular Framework for Promoting Learner Autonomy.
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Wenden, Anita – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
A discussion of language curriculum design for promoting learner autonomy looks at the objectives of such a curriculum, the learning implied by those objectives, and the function and relevance of the learnings. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Language Processing
Intensive French and Intensive English: Similarities and Differences
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Germain, Claude; Lightbown, Patsy; Netten, Joan; Spada, Nina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This article provides a historical overview and comparison of intensive English (IE) and intensive French (IF) programs in Canada. Comparisons are made in terms of the total time allotted to the intensive period, the selection of students, the number and types of schools offering the programs, the models of delivery, and the type of pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, French, English (Second Language)