This study examines how administrators can help second language (SL) teachers create learning environments that promote SL learning and motivate students to learn; how the structure of the educational organization and relationship between SL teachers and colleagues affect program quality; how SL teachers can effectively manage learners' needs and…

Centers on the opinions of Michael Lawlor of the Society for Effective Affective Learning (S.E.A.L.) about "right brain" language learning and includes suggestions (with examples presented about learning Greek) for developing one's power of suggestion and applying it to foreign language learning. (CB)

Discusses language planning in the domain of courts in Cyprus. Examines the dominant role of English in court from 1960 until 1988 as reflecting Cyprocentric state identity associations. Investigates the use of Greek after the enactment of a law that brought the reversal of the linguistic situation. (Author/VWL)

Research indicates four sources for the use of the first language in the second language classroom. Environment and the learners cannot be easily controlled, but materials and teachers can. The goal of such control is to increase second language input primarily at the macro level for reading, listening, and speaking practice, thus speeding up the…

Reviews common pronunciation problems experienced by learners of English as a second language who are native speakers of Vietnamese, Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Greek, and Punjabi. (CB)

The status of modern Greek in Australian society and education are detailed in this report. Chapters include discussion of these issues: the history of modern Greek in Australia (Greek immigration and settlement, public and private domains of use, language maintenance and shift, and language quality); the functions of modern Greek in Australia…