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Schauer, Gila A. – English Language Education, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers' statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Childrens Literature, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Ipek, Hulya – English Language Teaching, 2009
In an attempt to understand and explain first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) acquisition scholars have put forward many theories. These theories can aid language teachers to understand language learning and to assist their students in their language learning process. The current paper will first look at the similarities between…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Language Teachers
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Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2008
Task-based teaching is an area which has emerged from the upsurge of interest in cognitive approaches to language learning and teaching of the mid 1980s. Being a current vogue in a communicative language teaching, task-based language learning contains dangers if implemented without care. In particular, it is likely to create pressure for immediate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Language Processing
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2008
Task-based teaching is an area which has emerged from the upsurge of interest in cognitive approaches to language learning and teaching of the mid-1980s. Being a current vogue in communicative language teaching, task-based language learning contains dangers if implemented without care. In particular, it is likely to create pressure for immediate…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Wieczorek, Joseph A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1991
The applied linguist, who most commonly uses interlanguage analysis for nonstandard language forms, and the language teacher, who relies heavily on error analysis, each need to learn the usefulness and viability of the other method in his own professional context. Examples focus on the written preterit form in Spanish. (44 references) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
Bolitho, Rod – 1991
If teacher education is to train second language teachers to be principled practitioners, it is essential to resist the attraction of panaceas and recipe-type solutions to instructional problems, and to promote teachers' better understanding of what constitutes successful language learning. Second language acquisition (SLA) research, both applied…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Style, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries