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Direct linkAmorati, Riccardo; Hajek, John – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article presents the results of a mixed-method study that investigated the impact of an innovative project-based learning module, entitled "I am an author," on students' motivation and creativity, and also examined its positive and negative aspects emerging from students' evaluations. As part of this module, advanced learners of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Creativity, Active Learning, Student Projects
Gonglewski, Margaret; Baker, Lottie – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Curricular peer mentoring is a type of peer-assisted learning that integrates advanced students of a subject directly into beginner-level courses to facilitate engagement and learning. This study investigates how one curricular peer mentoring program, originally developed to foster active learning in large introductory science, technology,…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peer Teaching
Shen, Helen H.; Xu, Wenjing – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
Active learning emerged as a new approach to learning in the 1980s. The core concept of active learning involves engaging students not only in actively exploring knowledge but also in reflecting on their own learning process in order to become more effective learners. Because the nonalphabetic nature of the Chinese writing system makes learning to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Active Learning
Peron, Melanie – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This article presents a writing project whose primary goal is the development of linguistic, cross-cultural, and meta-cognitive competencies through the study of a dark episode in French history--the German Occupation. Students create personas who all lived in the same building in 1939 and write their memoirs 60 years later. Following a brief…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Active Learning, Simulation
Mills, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
Project-based learning (PBL) is described as a student-centered approach to learning in which students collaborate on sequential authentic tasks and develop a final project. Through opportunities to integrate both language and content learning, PBL practitioners suggest that meaningful language use and purposeful communication are fostered…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Self Efficacy, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Geyer, Naomi – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
As professional development models of teacher education that allow for self-directed, collaborative, inquiry-based learning are increasingly replacing more traditional top-down models, researchers acknowledge the impact of teachers' reflective practices. Although many different types of reflective practices are reported, the differences across…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Second Languages, Inquiry
