This case study reports the results of a genre-based approach, which was used to explicitly teach the touristic landmark description to fourth-grade students of Spanish as a foreign language. The instructional model and unit of instruction were informed by the pedagogies of the Sydney School of Linguistics and an instructional model for…

Research in language learning and general education supports the idea that addressing the "communities" goal of the national standards for foreign language learning in the language classroom can be an effective way to teach the target language. This article gives examples of how community-based learning in the foreign language classroom…

Over the past several decades, listening comprehension has not received a great deal of focus in foreign/second language acquisition (SLA) research compared to other skills and competencies. Although there is growing research on instructional techniques and strategies to enhance those skills in the earlier stages of second language (L2) learning,…