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Dippold, Doris – ReCALL, 2009
Recent years have seen the emergence of Web2.0, in which users are not only passive recipients of the featured content, but actively engaged in constructing it. Sites such as "Facebook" and "Myspace" are typical examples of this, as are blogs that allow users to present themselves online, to write about their daily lives or even to establish…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Focus Groups, Learning Processes
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Tschirner, Erwin – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1992
To establish preliminary baselines in terms of instruction time and the teaching methodology used, the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview was administered as a final exam to all University of Michigan first- through fourth-semester German students. After one and also after three semesters, the majority of students were Intermediate Mid; after four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Second Language Programs, German, Higher Education
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Rehorick, Sally – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1990
An interview with Wilga Rivers focuses on advances in language teaching over the last 50 years, changing student needs and teaching methods, the differential success of teaching methods, program design, student immersion, teacher training, and technological advancement in relation to language teaching. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Immersion Programs, Interviews
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Educational Record, 1987
A survey by the American Council on Education of undergraduate programs in international studies and foreign languages at colleges and universities is described. The project's goal has been to examine how students use these programs including what types of students take what patterns of language and international studies courses. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Presidents, College Second Language Programs, Course Selection (Students)
NFLC Policy Issues, 1999
This interview with Glenn H. Nordin, Assistant Director of Intelligence Policy (Language and Training), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, explores in depth the officially perceived language needs of the U.S. military in the foreseeable future. Questions and answers include the following: How has the end of the Cold War affected…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Interviews, Language Enrollment, Language Proficiency