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de Saint Léger, Diane; Storch, Neomy – Babel, 2012
Tasks can vary in terms of difficulty and implementation conditions, and these in turn may affect the nature of the language produced by the learner. There have been a large number of studies which have investigated the effects of these task properties and implementation conditions on the language the learner produces. To date, results have been…
Descriptors: French, Oral Language, Conversational Language Courses, Comparative Analysis
Schallie, Charlotte; Thorson, Helga – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2012
In this article we present an integrated curricular model for addressing the transition from the intermediate to the advanced language level through peer-assisted learning activities in the post-secondary German classroom. In a series of group projects between students in second- and third-year conversation courses, we employed a learner-centered…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
de la Campa, Juliane C.; Nassaji, Hossein – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This study examined the amount, the purposes, and the reasons why L1 is used in L2 classrooms. Data consist of video and audio recording of samples of two instructors' L2 classes over the course of a 12-week semester in two second-year German conversation university courses, instructor interviews, and stimulated recall sessions. Results revealed…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Niemi, John A. – 1971
The Finnish-Canadian Citizenship Project was organized to teach English to older Canadians of Finnish descent in British Columbia. The 24 enrollees had between one and ten years of formal schooling. The Finnish Canadians use a dialect of English words with Finnish pronunciations that must be unlearned in order to learn English. The students…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language)
Maracle, David Kanatawakhon; Richards, Merle – 2002
An adult immersion program in the Mohawk language took place in an Iroquois community in southern Ontario. The class was limited to 12 students who had taken a readiness course that introduced them to basic grammar and vocabulary. The class met daily in the relaxed setting of a house. The preparation and sharing of meals, the presence of fluent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Conversational Language Courses