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Download full textPrice, Rolanda – 1994
This report describes a program for improving motivation in eighth grade, first-year Spanish classes in a growing middle and upper class, predominantly Caucasian suburban community of northern Illinois. Survey results confirmed that students' enthusiasm for foreign language study decreased dramatically once the novelty of learning Spanish had worn…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grade 8, Introductory Courses
