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Artesia Public Schools, NM. – 1972
This volume contains suggested curriculum guidelines for an effective bilingual program, with specific focus on Spanish language skills for the second grade level. The philosophy of the program views bilingual education as a vehicle and pedagogical tool to be used to better prepare all children to function in society. The point of departure for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education
Rivers, Wilga M. – 1972
It is hypothesized that free, spontaneous interaction cannot be easily attained in language courses which are rigid and mechanical. For this reason, the author urges the development of instructional materials which facilitate a smooth and natural transition from "skill-getting" to "skill-using." Discussion of Jerome Bruner's theory of language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Fluency
Pimsleur, Paul – 1961
An attempt to test students objectively in a five-part, French, speaking proficiency test is described and discussed. Concrete nouns, abstract words, pronunciation, syntax, and fluency are tested with a combination of tape and picture stimuli. Reliability, validity, and practical questions are raised; and previous aural-oral testing procedures are…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, French, Language Fluency, Language Proficiency
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And Others; Frautschi, Richard L. – French Review, 1976
This article discusses the factors related to successful achievement on advanced placement tests in French, and reports evidence showing that students with a bilingual home environment or having lived abroad, do better than students simply exposed to language instruction in American schools. (CLK)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Entrance Examinations, French, Language Fluency
Goodfellow, Anne – 2002
This paper examines the belief that as English rapidly infiltrates Native American cultures, school programs for teaching and maintaining native languages are not working. It suggests that Native American children who learn English first and their heritage languages second have difficulty learning the structures of their ancestral languages…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Ethnicity, Grammar
Fortkamp, Maike B. Mota – 1999
This study examines whether working memory capacity, a construct of current information processing theory, correlates with fluent foreign language (L2) speech production. It is based on M. Daneman's study (1991), who found significant correlation between individuals' working memory capacity and the fluency with which they can speak their first…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
Jepsen, Christopher; de Alth, Shelley – Public Policy Institute of California, 2005
In this report, Christopher Jepsen and Shelley de Alth conclude that there are numerous obstacles to students being reclassified from English learners to Fluent English Proficient. To start with, over 50 languages are spoken in California's public schools. Although 85 percent of English learners speak Spanish as their first language, the sheer…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Classification
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Davies, Norman F. – System, 1980
Discusses the process of native language learning and explores the relationship between it and second language learning. It is suggested that in a language curriculum, the initial emphasis should be on receptive skills. Accuracy, appropriateness, and fluency in communication are discussed, as well as instructional modes for training in these…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Acquisition, Language Fluency
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Lazaraton, Anne – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1997
Focuses on a phenomena emerging from examination of a corpus of language interview data, representing a type of institutional talk evaluating the English language ability of international students for the purposes of elective English-as-a-Second-Language course placement. This phenomenon is the students' self-deprecations of their own English…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Ninnes, Peter – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examines factors influencing language maintenance among secondary school students of Vietnamese ethnic background. Students' Vietnamese language ability and frequency of Vietnamese language use were evaluated and correlated with demographic, cultural, social, and attitudinal factors. Length of residence in Australia was more influential in…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Demography, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
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de Groot, Annette M. B.; Poot, Rik – Language Learning, 1997
Orthogonally manipulated three word characteristics in Dutch and English--word imageability; word frequency; and cognate status--and obtained similar data patterns for three groups of bilinguals different from one another in second-language fluency. Findings indicate that "concept mediation" is a universal process in translating words…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Concept Formation, Dutch, English
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Owen, Lawrence B. – Reading Improvement, 1989
Decries the emphasis in foreign language curricula on rapid attainment of speaking skills. Advocates eliminating formal speaking exercises and focusing on reading and writing skills, with intensive English grammar review at regular intervals, for the first two years of foreign language training. (SR)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Change, Language Fluency, Reading Skills
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Flewelling, Janet – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Explains the difficulties teachers of French as a Second Language face in improving their knowledge of French language and culture. The article provides suggestions on how to improve the teachers' knowledge base and appeals to all Canadian provinces to share information on the inservicing available so that a master list of upgrading courses can be…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, French, Information Dissemination
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Okamura, Akiko – Modern Language Journal, 1995
Compares 39 native teachers' and 41 native nonteachers' perception of elementary learners' spoken Japanese. Interviews between a native speaker and a learner were audiotaped, and the 80 natives evaluated them according to grammar, fluency, vocabulary, appropriateness, comprehensibility and pronunciation. Results indicate teachers are more critical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Interviews, Japanese
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Segalowitz, Norman; Gatbonton, Elizabeth – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1995
Addresses the question of how computer-assisted language learning should be designed to promote second language lexical fluency. The discussion reviews findings in the psychological literature concerning the nature of lexical development, the transfer of appropriate learning, and the conditions that promote automaticity in skilled performance. (43…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Fluency, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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