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Quintrell, Neil; Westwood, Marvin – Higher Education Research and Development, 1994
A program that paired 41 first-year international students with host students trained in intercultural communication and information on campus services had beneficial effects. International participants were more likely than nonparticipants to describe their first year positively, use campus services, and report gains in language fluency. No…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Freshmen, Foreign Students
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Bell, Jill Sinclair – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1995
Examines Canadian research in job training programs to question whether the development of English language proficiency has a positive impact on the career prospects of most workplace learners. This article describes some workplace programs that include antiracist training and cross-cultural awareness for all members of the workplace. (11…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cultural Interrelationships, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Cullen, Richard – ELT Journal, 1994
Outlines a model for an inservice teacher training course in which language improvement is the central element, unlike more traditional English language teaching (ELT) programs for nonnative speakers, which emphasize ELT skills training, grammar, and phonology. In this model, the experience of language learning provides the input for skills…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education, Language Fluency
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Koop, Marie-Christine Weidmann – Foreign Language Annals, 1995
Describes the various steps taken to organize and implement a five-week French summer institute for secondary teachers of French, involving a three-week stay in France. The article details program objectives, course content, administration of the Institute, budget considerations, participants' progress, the evaluation process, and the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Foreign Countries, French
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Prater, Doris L.; Bermudez, Andrea B. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1993
Effects of heterogeneous peer response groups (heterogeneous for language proficiency and ability) on the writing of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students was investigated in fourth-grade language arts classes. After one month, significant improvements on two measures of fluency were found for LEP students assigned to peer response groups, but…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Grade 4, Heterogeneous Grouping
Marom, Anat – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1998
Describes talk-write, a form of cooperative learning aimed at enhancing fluency in writing during English-as-a-Second-Language instruction. The paper explains how to implement talk-write, discusses the logic behind talk-write, and presents some tips for talk-write in practice. Several modifications for implementing talk-write are suggested. (SM)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Valdes, Guadalupe – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Suggests that the notion of near-native language ability, as currently used in the language teaching profession, should be re-examined. The concept of native speech is complex and often idealized, involving not only a teacher's language skills but also sociocultural norms, peer perceptions, and attitudes about ethnic or regional usage. The concept…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Language Attitudes
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Genesee, Fred; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examined language differentiation in bilingual toddlers prior to the emergence of functional categories. The children were observed with each parent separately and both together. Results indicate that while these children did code mix, they were able to differentiate between their two languages. There was some evidence that language dominance…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
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Forseth, Carol; Forseth, Ron – TESOL Journal, 1996
Discusses a program to provide a genuine English-speaking environment for language teachers in Outer Mongolia in order to consolidate the use of language structures and increase oral fluency. The article demonstrates that removing the students from their normal living environment was an essential feature of the program. Students and teachers rated…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Change Strategies, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)
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Schneider, Peter H. – TESL-EJ, 2001
Japanese university students had the choice of pair taping--a fluency practice in which learners record themselves speaking freely in pairs--for an equivalent amount of time as their once a week English class. Results from self reports showed that learners who chose pair taping (73) over remaining in class (n=28) reported increases in ease of…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Molinsky, Andrew – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
How are nonnatives evaluated when committing cultural faux pas, and how does their fluency in the language of the foreign culture affect the evaluation of their culturally inappropriate behavior? I address these questions in the context of Russian professionals learning to interview for jobs in the United States, an arena of strong cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Cultural Differences, Effect Size, Language Fluency
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Collins, Jacquie; Stead, Shelley; Woolfrey, Sid – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This article gives the perspectives of three teachers of intensive French (IF) as they adjusted their thinking to teaching in a French as a second language (FSL) classroom that was very different from the core French classroom and developed teaching strategies to facilitate effective learning of communication skills by the students. Four major…
Descriptors: Literacy, Communication Skills, French, Teaching Methods
Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – 1996
Speaking a second language is probably the most difficult skill to test in that it involves a combination of skills that may have no correlation with each other, and which do not lend themselves to objective testing. In addition, what can be understood is a function of the listener's background and ability as well as those of the speaker. Another…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Language Fluency
James, Mark O. – 1992
A study investigated one major aspect of the process of writing in a second language (L2), surface error correction, and two related issues. The main research questions included: whether (1) L2 writers were preoccupied with surface error correction during the generation of text; and (2) whether this regular interruption of the composing process…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits, English (Second Language), Error Correction
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Irujo, Suzanne – 1986
A study of advanced English learners' use or avoidance of English idioms is described. The investigation looked at whether the subjects would attempt to use English idioms in a translation task containing idioms, or would instead use non-idiomatic synonyms or paraphrase. It also looked at which idioms are used and which are avoided: those that are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills, Correlation
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