Real Reality Revisited: An Experimental Communicative Course in ESL.

Montgomery, Carol; Eisenstein, Miriam

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ERIC Number: EJ321158

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Publication Date: 1985

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Real Reality Revisited: An Experimental Communicative Course in ESL.

Montgomery, Carol; Eisenstein, Miriam

TESOL Quarterly, v19 n2 p317-34 Jun 1985

Describes an experimental oral communication course designed around weekly, structured field trips to sites where students typically need to communicate in English. Students taking this course were also enrolled in a grammar-based English as a second-language course and were compared with a control group taking only the grammar-based course. (SED)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Field Trips, Grammar Translation Method, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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