Language Teaching: Is There a Solution? Is There a Problem?.

Swan, Michael

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ERIC Number: EJ468942

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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Language Teaching: Is There a Solution? Is There a Problem?

Swan, Michael

Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, v10 n2 p34-37 Dec 1988

Many language teachers experience frustrations about their lack of success in developing fluency in their students. Reasons for the difficulties are discussed, and the avoidance of short-cuts is advocated. (LB)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Failure, Foreign Countries, Language Fluency, Language Research, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Success, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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