A model service learning course for elementary teaching credential candidates is described. Preservice teachers taking a required university reading methods course studied scientifically-based reading instruction and volunteered in Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms during reading instruction time. Service learning experiences were…

Introduces a computer-assisted language-learning system called L2tutor that is designed to provide an immersion experience to travelers before they leave on a trip to a country where a different language is spoken. The learner takes part in a fully mixed-initiative dialog with the system to gain fluency and hone vocabulary and grammatical skills.…

We used a multiple baseline across students design to evaluate the effects of an intervention program consisting of vocabulary instruction, error correction, and fluency building on oral reading rate and comprehension of five English-language learners who were struggling readers in a primary school. During the first intervention condition (new…

This special 12-week course in German has 55 lessons in five volumes. The sixth volume contains a German-English and an English-German vocabulary. This volume contains lessons 1-11. Each lesson has two dialogs, question-answer exercises, reading passages and questions for comprehension, and grammar explanations and examples. The grammar…

This special twelve-week course in German has 55 lessons in five volumes. The sixth volume contains a German-English and an English-German vocabulary. This volume contains lessons 12-22. Each lesson has two dialogs, question-answer exercises, reading passages and questions for comprehension, and grammar explanations and examples. The grammar…

This special twelve-week course in German has 55 lessons in five volumes. The sixth volume contains a German-English and an English-German vocabulary. This volume contains lessons 23-33. Each lesson has two dialogs, question-answer exercises, reading passages and questions for comprehension, and grammar explanations and examples. The grammar…

This special twelve-week course in German has 55 lessons in five volumes. The sixth volume contains a German-English and an English-German vocabulary. This volume contains lessons 34-44. Each lesson has two dialogs, question-answer exercises, reading passages and questions for comprehension, and grammar explanations and examples. The grammar…

This special twelve-week course in German has 55 lessons in five volumes. The sixth volume contains a German-English and an English-German vocabulary. This volume contains lessons 45-55. Each lessons has two dialogs, question-answer exercises, reading passages and questions for comprehension, and grammar explanations and examples. The grammar…

A collection of papers on neurolinguistics includes: "Communication Strategies in Aphasia" (Elisabeth Ahlsen); "Speech Planning in the Light of Stuttering" (Ann-Marie Alme); "L. S. Tsvetkova's Aphasia Rehabilitation Method and Its Applications" (Ritva Hanninen); "Semantic Aphasia and Luria's Neurolinguistic Model" (Birgitta Johnsen); "Aphasic…

This guide is a collection of practical ideas for teaching vocabulary and vocabulary development skills to learners of a second language. Most are contributed by teachers of English as a Second Language, but the activities may be appropriate for teaching other languages. Each idea is described briefly, with information given about appropriate…

Oral exercises are classified by type and form. Types include repetition, substitution, conversion, pyramid, and combinations. Dialogue, games, play acting, conversation, and repetition are cited as forms. Sample exercises are offered as illustrations. (AF)

Summarizes an interactive computer-based reading program developed to enhance the linguistic proficiency of intermediate language students and increase their awareness of Francophone cultures. The article describes the program's glossing capabilities and its tracking device and summarizes the pilot research that preceded the program. (38…

Examined open-ended production tasks in higher level testing in French-as-a-second-language courses in the United Kingdom. The article studied the effect of teachers' linguistic background, training, experience, and ability on their marking of students' oral language tests; the reliability of marking criteria; and the validity of assessing…

A classroom research project in English-as-a-Second-Language vocabulary development, conducted in an English language school in Brazil, is described. The study had two major aims: to help students build a large lexicon for future use, and to encourage students to be responsible for their own learning by teaching strategies for learning vocabulary.…

Investigates the relationship between French instruction and the phenomena of discontinued lexical development, lexical attrition, and lexical deficiency in the speech of Mauritanians. Findings indicate native-language lexical deficiency was reflected in code switching, and subjects (Ss) with low native-language fluency code switched more than Ss…