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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)

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
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
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

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
Graham, C. Ray – 1984
Research suggests that assimilative motivation is largely responsible for the development of native-like speech in both first and second languages. Analysis of anecdotal evidence of early bilingual development, studies of dialect acquisition, bilingual immersion programs, and studies of language pidginization illustrating the development of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Educational Research, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication
Niemi, Jussi, Ed.; Koivuselka-Sallinen, Paivi, Ed. – 1985
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…
Descriptors: Child Language, Clinical Diagnosis, Finnish, High Risk Students
Liljegren, Thomas – 1981
The Swedish National Board of Education studied 7,095 youths (mostly immigrants) who left compulsory school in 1979 and who spoke home languages other than Swedish. The part of the study reported on here revealed that no less than 42% of them stated that they always spoke Swedish with at least one parent, while 22% never spoke Swedish with their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Bilingual Education, Educational Attainment, Employment
Holtzman, Wayne H. – 1982
To further investigate the relationship between divergent thinking and bilingualism, 23 Anglos and 108 Mexican Americans from a semi-rural West Texas community and 24 Mexican Americans from San Antonio, enrolled in the fourth grade, of low socioeconomic status, and with an average age of 10 years 6 months, were divided into 5 experimental groups,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1960
Book one of an intermediate-advanced level German refresher course for college students is presented. This volume consists of nine lessons and 30 prerecorded tapes. Each of the nine lessons is subdivided in the text into five parts, as follows: narrative, dialogue, questions and answers, exercises, and memorization. The book is designed for those…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language)
Joiner, Elizabeth Garner; Westphal, Patricia Barney, Ed. – 1978
This practical book is designed for the classroom teacher of a second or foreign language at any level. The articles are grouped into two distinct but interdependent sections on general considerations and specific techniques. The contents of the first section are as follows: "Moi Tarzan, Vous Jane?: A Study of Communicative Competence" by P.B.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Instructional Materials, Interaction Process Analysis
Germain, Claude – 1968
The nature of conversation as communication is explored in its psychological, linguistic, and didactic aspects with particular reference to the learning of French as a second language. Major emphasis is placed on psychological and linguistic theories. In the didactic section, the problems, value, and methodology of conversation classes are…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Skills, Bibliographies, Conversational Language Courses
Mellon, John C. – 1969
In an epilogue to the 1967 research report, "Transformational Sentence-Combining" (See ED 018 405.), John Mellon considers the significance of the sentence-combining experience and answers the charges of critics--Wayne O'Neil, James Moffett, and Francis Christensen--regarding his original research findings. Mellon points out, for example, that…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, English Instruction, Language Fluency