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Jiang, Xiangying; Rollinson, Joseph; Plonsky, Luke; Gustafson, Erin; Pajak, Bozena – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Duolingo is a commercial language-teaching platform that offers free courses on the web and on mobile apps. This study reports the ACTFL listening and reading proficiency levels of adult Duolingo learners who had completed beginning-level courses in Spanish or French. The participants (n = 225) were learners residing in the United States, had…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Drewelow, Isabelle – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
Learning a foreign language promotes new ways of seeing the world and the self in relation to it (Gee, 1996), making practices and perspectives underlined through the acquisition of vocabulary and grammatical structures available for appropriation (Bakhtin, 1981; Kramsch, 1993, 2009). Using a combination of interviews and self-reported…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Interviews, Questionnaires, Cultural Awareness
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Vogel, Severine; Herron, Carol; Cole, Steven P.; York, Holly – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study investigated how to present grammatical structures to intermediate-level French college students. It compared the effects of a guided inductive and a deductive approach on short- and long-term learning of 10 structures. A mixed-methods design was adopted to assess learning of the structures and to investigate preference of approach.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Logical Thinking, French, Second Language Learning
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Ducate, Lara C.; Anderson, Lara Lomicka; Moreno, Nina – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
With the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 tools, it only follows that these technologies are adapted to our foreign language classroom practices. Research shows their numerous advantages as participatory tools that foster communication and collaboration. This study focuses on one such tool, the wiki, and describes the implementation of three…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
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Pufahl, Ingrid; Rhodes, Nancy C. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
How well are our schools preparing students to become global citizens who can communicate in languages other than English? To answer this question, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of more than 5,000 U.S. public and private elementary and secondary schools. Results identify current patterns and shifts over time in five key areas of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Elementary Secondary Education, Second Language Learning, Teacher Shortage
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Wang, Hung-Chun; Shih, Su-Chin – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study investigated how English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' types of language for thinking and types of oral elicitation tasks influence their lexical collocational errors in speech. Data were collected from 42 English majors in Taiwan using two instruments: (1) 3 oral elicitation tasks and (2) an inner speech questionnaire. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Error Patterns, Language Role, Foreign Countries
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Haight, Carrie; Herron, Carol; Cole, Steven P. – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This study investigates the effectiveness of deductive and guided inductive approaches for teaching grammar in college French classrooms. Forty-seven second-semester French students were taught eight grammatical structures: four with a deductive instructional approach and four with a guided inductive instructional approach. A quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Tests, Teaching Methods, French
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Arnold, Nike – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
In recent years, educational technology has come a long way. Technological advancements and significant investments in computer equipment and training have opened new opportunities for foreign language teachers. In addition, instructional technology (IT) is now an accepted component of teacher training and foreign language teaching. This study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Educational Technology, Technological Advancement
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Horwitz, Elaine K. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
Describes two instruments for eliciting student beliefs about language learning and teaching--the Foreign Language Survey (FLAS) and the Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI). Representative responses of prospective teachers are discussed to demonstrate the usefulness of this information for the foreign language methods class. (SED)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning