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Download full textMyers, Liatris – ORTESOL Journal, 2018
Second language pragmatics are not easily acquired by second language learners for a variety of reasons including negative first language transfer, insufficient grammatical competence, and inadequate instruction. For adult learners living in the second language environment, adequate pragmatic knowledge is essential even for beginning level…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Incidental Learning
Rwanika, Mwisha; And Others – 1986
The teacher's manual for Peace Corps volunteer language training in Ciluba is designed for introductory oral language instruction. It is intended to assist trainees in functioning in the language within at least 6 weeks, and to transmit cultural information about the host country through linguistic structures, texts, and discussion topics. It…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Cultural Education, Developing Nations
Rwanika, Mwisha; And Others – 1986
The teacher's manual for Peace Corps volunteer language training in Lingala is designed for introductory oral language instruction. It is intended to assist trainees in functioning in the language within at least 6 weeks, and to transmit cultural information about the host country through linguistic structures, texts, and discussion topics. It…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Cultural Education, Developing Nations
Rwanika, Mwisha; And Others – 1986
The teacher's manual for Peace Corps volunteer language training in Kikongo is designed for introductory oral language instruction. It is intended to assist trainees in functioning in the language within at least 6 weeks, and to transmit cultural information about the host country through linguistic structures, texts, and discussion topics. It…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Cultural Education, Developing Nations
Al-Khanji, Rajai – 1987
The Strategic Interaction method has been found to be effective in developing oral skills among students in an intensive English language program at the University of Jordan, and holds promise for language instruction in other contexts. The method, which is predominantly communicative in nature, stresses language use and interaction in discourse…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Strain, Jeris E. – 1986
A symposium of language learning specialists reviewing C.C. Fries' Oral Approach to English language instruction developed and used at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan is summarized. The thesis of the symposium was that the basic Oral Approach concepts had and continue to have a profound and far-reaching, though largely…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
