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Peer reviewedDodds, Dinah – Foreign Language Annals, 1992
A college advanced speaking course designed with the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines is described. Students prepared and performed many communicative tasks, including narrating, describing, hypothesizing, supporting an opinion, debating, and interviewing for a job. Other components include pair and small-group work, audio and videotaping, and pre-…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Second Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Higher Education
Download full textLittle, David; And Others – 1994
This report presents the development and results of a 1-year foreign language module program of 15-weeks duration for university students in the arts, commerce, science, and engineering. The project's central concern was to develop and test a general model for the delivery of foreign language teaching to students of other disciplines. The program…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Walker, William – 1998
The method used for assessing German language majors and minors at Bradley University (Illinois) is described. The method uses multiple assessment techniques, and has seven parts: (1) a re-taking of the German entry placement examination; (2) review of results of a two-part exit survey (questionnaire appended), designed to obtain information about…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Second Language Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Elling, Barbara – 1984
As a result of increasing interest in merging business and the humanities in the college curriculum and the efforts of many German and American organizations working together, a test was developed to measure the German language competence of American students planning to work for American companies trading with or located in West Germany or for…
Descriptors: Business Communication, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Studies
Phillips, Diana – 1991
Practical difficulties in placing economics students and designing instructional materials in English as a Second Language at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and techniques used for resolving these difficulties, are described. First-year students arrive with heterogeneous backgrounds because, unlike in other European countries, there is no…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business English, Classroom Techniques, College Preparation
Richardson, G., Ed. – 1983
Key areas of modern language teaching are addressed in 10 articles. In addition to a general overview of methods and aims of foreign language teaching, attention is directed to the audiolingual and audiovisual revolution, language study for the slow-learning child and for the child with above average ability, imaginative learning activities for…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Courses, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction
