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Nayar, P. Bhaskaran – TESL-EJ, 2008
This article overviews the status, ecology, use, and the teaching/learning of English in the southern Indian state of Kerala. It does so along two overlapping dimensions. A socio-demographic dimension situates the ecology of English in Kerala in the general Indian context, and relates it to the ethno-linguistic identity of Kerala. A second applied…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Ecology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Puppel, Stanislaw; Marton, Waldemar – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1991
Outlines a hierarchical model of acquisition of second-language phonology, based on the scrutinization of contexts and evocation of appropriate rules through contact situations in which a conflict emerges between the native and target phonologies. (23 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Language Enrichment, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Chappell, Eric – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1990
Discusses the use of Jiejing, a computer program that offers the learner several features that enhance both recognition and production skills in the learning of Chinese and Japanese in Australia. Students learn to produce common expressions and to discriminate the distinctive features of the new sound systems. (GLR)
Descriptors: Chinese, Computer Software, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries