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Peer reviewedSanders, Carol – English Language Teaching Journal, 1977
Use of classroom improvisations and role-playing can help the second language learner speak quickly, naturally, and spontaneously. The technique is discussed and illustrated. (CHK)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Educational Games
Download full textWeihs, Otto – 1987
Theories of human cognition and language suggest that there is a gap between the phases of perception and the phases of production of language. Unfortunately, this is often forgotten in language teaching, so that beginners' courses too frequently contain simplified and non-authentic linguistic input to assure that output does not lag too far…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
