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Constructive Alignment in Foreign Language Curricula: An Exploration of Teaching and Assessment Practices in Dutch Secondary Education
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Rouffet, Charline; van Beuningen, Catherine; de Graaff, Rick – Language Learning Journal, 2023
While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is recognised as an effective approach worldwide, its implementation in foreign language (FL) classrooms remains difficult. Earlier studies have identified factors impeding CLT implementation, such as a lack of communicative lesson materials or teachers' more traditional views on language learning. In…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Situated Development and Use of Language Learner Strategies: Voices from EFL Students
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Huang, Junsheng; Andrews, Stephen – Language Learning Journal, 2010
Language learner strategies (LLS) have long been viewed as a variable of individual differences, or as cognitive skills. This study, focusing as it does on the data taken from a series of focus groups with 47 senior secondary students in mainland China, seeks a new interpretation of strategy development and use from a sociocultural perspective.…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns, Focus Groups, Learning Strategies
Summer Enterprise and the Russian Theatre Project.
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Marsh, Cynthia – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Discusses a modular curriculum funded by an initiative known as "Enterprise in Higher Education" (EHE). EHE is dedicated to promoting an exchange of ideas between the worlds of work and education with the goal of encouraging the development of a curriculum geared to producing students for careers in industry and commerce. (CK)
Descriptors: Career Education, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Learning a Culture and a Foreign Language at School--Aspects of Intercultural Learning.
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Kaikkonen, Pauli – Language Learning Journal, 1997
Describes a "Culture and Foreign Language" action research project that consisted of two years teaching experience with Finnish uppersecondary school pupils. (21 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Course Objectives, Cultural Awareness