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Direct linkHertel, Tammy Jandrey; Harrington, Stasie – Hispania, 2015
The 2007 MLA report "Foreign Language and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World," with its call to institutions of higher education to reexamine their curricula and include more in-depth cultural content into all courses, reminded foreign language educators of the important goal of helping students gain…
Descriptors: Spanish, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input, Films
Canagarajah, Suresh – TESOL Journal, 2014
In the context of more diverse communicative practices and social relations in globalization, scholars are increasingly defining English as constituting socially constructed situational norms in specific contexts of interaction, and not a homogeneous language or even discrete varieties of English. This shift requires treating pragmatics and not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Using Images as Springboards to Teach Cultural Perspectives in Light of the Ideals of the MLA Report
Barnes-Karol, Gwendolyn; Broner, Maggie A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The centrality of culture and language learning in foreign language instruction is highlighted in the "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" (National Standards, 2006) and the MLA report, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" (MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages, 2007).…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, National Standards, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Barnes, Ann – Language Learning Journal, 2006
How beginning teachers learn to teach has been the focus of a substantial amount of research. The process is complex, and a number of theories and models have been put forward. For example, Fuller and Bown's (1975) well-known classification of beginning teachers' concerns into self, task and impact (and the sequential nature of these categories)…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Teachers
Hunt, Marilyn; Barnes, Ann – Language Learning Journal, 2006
As readers of this journal will know, 2010 will see all KS2 (ages 7-11) pupils in England entitled to learn a modern foreign language in normal curriculum time. This development of the commitment to primary language learning should provide an excellent opportunity and experience for pupils, while at the same time requiring some radical changes for…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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
