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Heath, Peter – Al-Arabiyya, 1990
Discusses whether the proficiency approach to teaching Arabic, which is now advocated, is really functional enough to suit true needs of students, and whether the debate concerning proficiency is becoming so polarized as to make impossible real discussion of the issues. Trends and changes that have occurred in the Arabic language over the decades…
Descriptors: Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Competency Based Education, Grammar Translation Method
Chellappan, K. – International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 1981
This paper focuses on the mechanism by which the successful learner acquires a second language. The author postulates a core language, the common core of the speaker's native and target languages, and states that the second language becomes an extension of this common core. Whatever language-specific features are added while acquiring the second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dravidian Languages, French