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Assessing L2 Listening: Moving towards Authenticity. Language Learning & Language Teaching. Volume 50
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Ockey, Gary J.; Wagner, Elvis – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2018
This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs; the use of audio-visual texts; and assessing…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension Tests
Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
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Vanderplank, Robert – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2016
This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Touch and Gesture-Based Language Learning: Some Possible Avenues for Research and Classroom Practice
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Reinders, Hayo – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
Our interaction with digital resources is becoming increasingly based on touch, gestures, and now also eye movement. Many everyday consumer electronics products already include touch-based interfaces, from e-book readers to tablets, and from the last personal computers to the GPS system in your car. What implications do these new forms of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Eye Movements
Frames of Reference: The Impact of Race on Teaching Strategy and Classroom Discussion
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Liggett, Tonda – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2008
In this article, I examine the role of teacher racial identity on teaching strategy and the treatment of race in classroom discussions. I explicate how the pattern of minimizing the negative racial comments made to English language learners played out in participants' teaching and how it is reflective of socially constructed notions of race and…
Descriptors: Race, Education Courses, Racial Identification, Teaching Methods
Younger and Older Second Language Learners: A Comparison of Auditory Memory and Perception.
Scott, Mary Lee – 1989
A study evaluated the ability of older adults to accurately perceive and retain Spanish in their short-term memory. Specifically, the study investigated differences in native language (English) auditory perception, short-term native language auditory memory capacity, monolingual age differences in auditory perception ability in an unknown…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Language Tests
Hearing Foreign Languages through Low Frequencies.
Roberge, Claude – 1986
A study to assess the feasibility of the use of low frequencies for teaching foreign language to the hearing impaired is described. The subjects were unimpaired Japanese students, aged 18 and 19, in beginning French language study. Recorded sentences translated into English, French, and Mandarin Chinese were combined in various ways and presented…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, English (Second Language)