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Lee, Sangmin-Michelle – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, all colleges in Korea were forced to transition to online teaching, as was the case in most of the rest of the world. This situation engendered confusion, frustration, and dissatisfaction among students as well as instructors. The present study examined college students' perceptions of online learning in…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Online Courses, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods
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Yeh, Meng; Hsu, Wei-li – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study investigates the effect of an instructional design for medical Chinese, which incorporates research findings from Conversation Analysis (CA) and uses authentic doctor-patient consultations in primary-care visits as teaching materials. The goal of the instruction is to develop students' interpersonal communicative competence in medical…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Physician Patient Relationship, Primary Health Care, Instructional Design
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Payne, J. Scott – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Sequencing language production activities based on the inherent cognitive load of each activity type can improve student performance and self-efficacy on high cognitive load language tasks like conversational speech (either face-to-face or via video chat). This ordering according to cognitive difficulty can scaffold learners in their development…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, Instructional Design
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Amend, Amanda E.; Whitney, Carolyn A.; Messuri, Antonia T.; Furukawa, Hideko – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
A two-semester modified Spanish sequence was designed to address the needs of college students with language-based learning disabilities. This course featured reduced scope, an emphasis on tactile activities, metacognitive strategies, and adaptations to the presentation and practice of material. Performances on fall and spring semester-end essays…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Spanish, Sequential Learning
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Burke, Brigid Moira – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
For years reformers have been recommending that language teaching and learning be viewed as a system of communication, with the ultimate goal being the development of functional ability in learners (Musumeci, 1997). Many U.S. world language teachers continue to focus on grammatical tendencies, using English as the medium of instruction. As a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Experiential Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wherritt, Irene M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1981
Suggests criteria and strategies for an efficient use of textbook grammar presentations to give students a useful and native-like language. Shows how text deficiencies can be remedied through rearrangement and deletion of grammatical points and emphasizes the need for reentering useful, high frequency items in new contexts throughout the course.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Instructional Design, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Materials