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Bale, Jeff; Rajendram, Shakina; Brubacher, Katie; Owoo, Mama Adobea Nii; Burton, Jennifer; Wong, Wales; Zhang, Yiran; Larson, Elizabeth Jean; Gagné, Antoinette; Kerekes, Julie – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book details a three-year, multi-stranded study of teacher education programs that prepare future teachers to work with multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism collaborate to shape the conditions under which teacher candidates learn how to teach. The analysis traces dynamic shifts in thinking and practice as…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Racism, Language Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
Raymond, Patricia – TESL Talk, 1982
Discusses attitude and motivation as macro aspects of second-language learning and empathy and personality as the micro level. Believes learner's attitude, motivation, and personality are as important as intelligence but have nothing to do with capacity to learn. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Empathy, Language Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Personality
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Reiss, Mary-Ann – Foreign Language Annals, 1982
Findings of questionnaire developed for the continuing education foreign language student show students who had taken college foreign language had positive experience in high school and felt foreign language experience would be of some future benefit. Suggests emphasizing value of foreign language learning as way to teach continuing education…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuing Education, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Wardle, Francis – PTA Today, 1992
Examines the importance of teaching all young students a second language. U.S. society often believes other countries must adjust to U.S. ways. They are unaware of the rich variety of world cultures. Learning a second language expands a child's world view and ultimately helps U.S. competitiveness in the world market. (SM)
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
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Brisk, Maria Estela; Wurzel, Jaime – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
The article offers a theoretical framework including a brief review of the literature on the importance of attitudes and second language learning, bilingualism and cognition, and bilingualism and language acquisition. Based on this theoretical framework, an integrated bilingual kindergarten curriculum model is presented. (NQ)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design, Integrated Curriculum
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Barrutia, Richard – ADFL Bulletin, 1979
Makes some recommendations for the establishment and certification of study abroad programs, and discusses study abroad requirements for future language and area studies teachers. (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Degree Requirements, Government Role, Higher Education
Hicks, Diana; Murphy, Dermot – 1979
The experience of two teachers of English as a second language (ESL) in using simulation is described. Their success in developing communicative competence in young adult remedial ESL students is attributed to the fostering of realistic (i.e., lowered) self-expectations of achievable communicative ability. In developing specific language skills to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
Honeyfield, John – 1993
This article proposes two general instructional strategies that a course designer or materials writer may use to create a second language course that makes new demands on learners, yet contains feasible learning tasks. First, course designers can manipulate task components believed to determine task difficulty, components such as input text, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 2001
This booklet presents a clear and succinct description of the educational needs of francophone students, families, and communities, and how this all fits into the constitutional requirements of Canada as directed by the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and all subsequent amendments and Canadian Supreme Court rulings. It identifies the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries, French
Partington, Ann – 1992
This paper discusses some of the problems that arise for students and instructors in the teaching of the linguistics of a language to students in the process of learning that language as a second language (L2). Because non-native speakers may not have reached terminal competence in the L2, the language being presented in linguistics classes as…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
McWilliams, Larry; And Others – 1978
A guide on foreign languages is presented for counselors, administrators, teachers, and parents. An introductory section discusses reasons for foreign language study, college entrance or exit requirements, foreign language and SAT scores, careers that use foreign languages, myths about learning foreign languages, and information about French,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Opportunities, Career Planning, French
McKnight, Alex – Open Letter, 1994
Examines the assumptions and values of Chinese learners of English, focusing on the cultural, historical, philosophical, linguistic, social, and educational attitudes held by such learners that influence the way they learn English. The appropriateness and effectiveness of specific teaching methods with Chinese students is discussed. (21…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Chinese, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
Louton, Zoe E.; Louton, Robert E. – 1992
This paper explains the development of an integrated foreign language curriculum for elementary school classrooms and provides sample lesson plans using the story "Color, Where Are You?" In order to increase the consistency as well as the scope of the curriculum, the classroom teacher and the foreign language specialist should integrate the…
Descriptors: Color, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Valverde, Leonard A., Ed.; And Others – 1980
In both diagnostic procedures and in program prescriptions, this book attempts to deal with the problem of the Hispanic child who speaks no Spanish and who, in fact, may be discouraged from learning Spanish by parents who mistakenly feel they are helping the child make a quicker transition to the dominant culture. The first three chapters present…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development
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Ke, Chuanren – ADFL Bulletin, 1995
Discusses the importance of linguistic accuracy in proficiency-orientated foreign language programs, focusing on the experiences of college students in a summer intensive Chinese program. Linguistic inaccuracy is often the result of teachers focusing on form and meaning at the same time, fossilization, overuse of communicative strategies, lack of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Class Activities, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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