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Direct linkKraut, Rachel; Wulff, Stefanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Seventy-eight native English speakers rated the foreign-accented speech (FAS) of 24 international students enrolled in an Intensive English programme at a public university in Texas on degree of accent, comprehensibility and communicative ability. Variables considered to potentially impact listeners' ratings were the sex of the speaker, the first…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Case Studies, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction
Kamiya, Nobuhiro – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A call for a bridge between research and practice is nothing new, yet it seems to be an impossible task to accomplish. Despite the dedicated efforts made by numerous researchers in the past, the world is still largely separate between researchers and teachers. One piece of evidence is that research studies seem to have only a little impact on…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Shallis, Susan – Training Officer, 1979
Using information from her pilot study at Brighton (England) Polytechnic and in-depth interviews at major British institutions teaching intensive foreign language courses to businessmen, the author discusses the meaning of "intensive" courses and their effectiveness, concluding that good intensive courses, properly selected, do provide…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Business Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Research
Download full textAsher, James J. – 1972
This report summarizes the results from the first year of a proposed three-year study into ability patterns for learning second languages in intensive training. The languages sampled were Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, German, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Before training, the students were administered these predictive…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Arabic, Educational Research, French
d'Anglejan, Alison – 1981
A study was carried out of the 15 to 20% of immigrants enrolled in French second language classes in the "Centres d'Orientation et de Formation des Immigrants" (COFI) in Quebec, who learn little or no French after 8 weeks of an intensive course and repetitions of the course. This report presents the data gathered in the course of the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Research
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Language Education and Research. – 1989
Seven research tasks and related projects undertaken by the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) are described in a series of summary reports. For each specific task, an introductory section outlines the background, relevant research, and scope of the task. Subsequent sections contain reports of studies done as part of the task, each…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
