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Direct linkWhyte, Shona – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2011
Second language study in French universities includes both modern language (literary) and foreign language (communicative) approaches, although teaching is dominated by the literary strand. Traditional educational models based on the transmission of knowledge are unable to accommodate recent progress in our understanding of learning theory, which…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Language Research, Second Language Learning, French
Peer reviewedBamford, Julian; Day, Richard R. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Four approaches to the teaching of second language (L2) reading are described (grammar-translation, comprehension questions/exercises, skills and strategies, and extensive reading) and their status in the reading classroom is examined, and important issues in L2 reading are then discussed, including word recognition, affective and sociocultural…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Grammar Translation Method
