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Zhou, Li-na – Online Submission, 2010
This paper analyses the major approaches in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) vocabulary teaching from historical perspective and puts forward multi-dimensional vocabulary teaching mode for college English. The author stresses that multi-dimensional approaches of communicative vocabulary teaching, lexical phrase teaching method, the grammar…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs
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Johnston, Otto W. – Foreign Language Annals, 1983
Discusses the pros and cons of the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model (DILM) and offers some advice on introducing such a program in any language. Concludes that DILM-trained students do learn to communicate more effectively than traditionally taught beginners. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, German, Instructional Innovation, Program Effectiveness
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James, Dorothy – ADFL Bulletin, 1985
Discusses the foreign language requirements at Hunter College. By the fourth semester, a student is expected to read and understand a fairly advanced literary text and to talk and write about it in the target language. Discusses possible changes in these requirements, such as oral proficiency testing, and problems that may be encountered. (SED)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Objectives, Higher Education, Required Courses
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Belasco, Simon – Modern Language Journal, 1983
Offers some insights into why students rarely attain proficiency in a second language. Suggests organizing a second language program in such a way as to encourage students to spend the time required to become proficient. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Student Role
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Younes, Munther A. – Al-Arabiyya, 1990
Advocates alternative approach to teaching of Arabic as a foreign language, which is based on integration of a spoken Arabic dialect and Modern Standard Arabic in a single course of instruction. This proposal is designed to alleviate some of the problems currently faced by Arabic programs in preparing students for the complex sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Second Language Programs, Dialects, Instructional Innovation
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Rivers, Wilga – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Five directions foreign language departments should explore in the 1980s in order to revitalize their programs include uniting foreign language and international studies, cross-cultural studies, teaching process of communication, career preparation, and language for humanistic studies. (BK)
Descriptors: Careers, College Second Language Programs, Communications, Conversational Language Courses
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Huckin, Thomas N.; Olsen, Leslie A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1984
Argues that there is a growing need for professionally oriented English as a second language (ESL) instruction in American colleges, universities, and companies, which should combine aspects of both ESL and English for Special Purposes (ESP) in what here is called "generalized ESP." Two illustrations of this approach are discussed. (SED)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Engineers, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
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Bugliani, Ann – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Argues that, although it is worthwhile to teach literature in its original language, there is merit to teaching foreign language literature in translation. Most college-level language teachers have the language competence to teach literature in English, and if it's not taught in the language department, it may be taught in the English department,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Design, Higher Education
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Gay-Crosier, Raymond – ADFL Bulletin, 1987
A chair of a university's department of Romance languages and literature addresses the status of two high priorities in the teaching of foreign languages: the integration of linguistics in the "new" curriculum; the continuing development of language teaching approaches in the classroom; and the commitment of foreign language programs in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Second Language Programs, Department Heads, Educational Needs
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Lewis, David W. P.; Godbey, Galen C. – ADFL Bulletin, 1984
Emphasizes the need for cooperation and resource sharing among university foreign language departments as a means of ensuring their survival and enhancing their academic offerings. Some of the goals that could be achieved through this strategy include: new educational opportunities, improved quality of programs, planned diversity, cost avoidance…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources
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Nuessel, Frank – Italica, 1996
Overviews the most recently published or revised version of North American second-year Italian textbooks. Notes that each of the six textbooks reviewed provides sound pedagogical materials designed to enhance instruction. (55 references) (CK)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Content, Grammar, Higher Education
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Katz, Michael R. – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Teaching foreign-language literature in translation, within the foreign language department, has intellectual and pragmatic justifications. Intellectually, it is a source of joy for language faculty to share target language literature, and it is the thematic components, not language, that offer richest discussion. Practically, students don't have…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Design, Higher Education
Shuying, Yang – Forum, 1999
Because most language teaching in China is focused on national tests, language is treated as a knowledge subject and development of communicative abilities is often ignored. This article describes activities that one English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher used to teach oral English to university students in China. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Second Language Programs, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Das, Bikram K. – CIEFL Bulletin, 1974
This new method for teaching college English in India is based on prior assumptions but is given a justification and a methodological framework previously lacking. The method, which lies somewhere between the manipulative control and regimentation employed at the school level and the total freedom of the existing college method, is described in…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Grammar
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Byrnes, Heidi; Kleinhenz, Christopher; Mignolo, Walter; Pratt, Mary Louise; Vieira, Nelson; James, Dorothy – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Five brief essays are presented in response to an earlier article on leadership in college foreign-language departments. They address issues of curriculum redesign, pedagogical change, the nature of language teaching, the professional identity of language teachers, the role of professional organizations, and the traditional departmental model. A…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development
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