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Anderson, Roger W. – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Garfield is an exceptional language learner and US polyglot. This oral history project explores his trajectory from a childhood coma to knowing 15 languages. It examines his investment in his second language acquisition (SLA), a concept comprising identity, ideology, and capital (Darvin & Norton, 2015). Qualitative content analyses of 10 h of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Oral History
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Kennedy, Dora F.; De Lorenzo, William E. – Foreign Language Annals, 1994
Makes a case for a sequential approach to teaching foreign languages middle schools and suggests that in the middle school must encompass both the goals of proficiency and exploration; the integrated exploratory model is more compatible with child development; exploratory can be a launching pad into sequential courses; after an exploratory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Language Proficiency, Middle Schools, Second Language Instruction