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Kissau, Scott; Algozzine, Bob – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Studies investigating teacher candidate performance on traditional assessments of content knowledge place emphasis on just one of many skills needed to be an effective foreign language teacher; they also fail to explain why many teacher candidates with advanced oral proficiency struggle in the classroom and why some with less advanced language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Language Teachers
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined to what extent English-speaking learners of Arabic demonstrated varied metalinguistic knowledge of a salient feature (head-direction) vs. an unsalient feature (definiteness) in the Arabic construct state. In addition, it examined whether this knowledge was utilized in form-focused task performance. In the target construction,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
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Shin, Naomi L.; Hudgens Henderson, Mary – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Advanced grammar courses often present standardized grammar rules to students without considering sociolinguistic variation. As a result, many native/heritage students feel that they speak "incorrectly," and many second language learners do not get an accurate picture of the target language's real-world grammar. This article describes…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Teaching Methods, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Pascual y Cabo, Diego; Prada, Josh; Lowther Pereira, Kelly – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined the effects of participation in a community service-learning experience on Spanish heritage language learners' attitudes toward their heritage language and culture. Quantitative and qualitative data from heritage language learners demonstrated that engagement in community service-learning activities as part of the Spanish…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Learning Experience, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Kitajima, Ryu – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Corpus linguistics identifies the qualitative difference in the characteristics of spoken discourse vs. written academic discourse. Whereas spoken discourse makes greater use of finite dependent clauses functioning as constituents in other clauses, written academic discourse incorporates noun phrase constituents and complex phrases. This claim can…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Protocol Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Loomis, Summer – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
Reaching the Advanced level of proficiency in speaking is a common goal of second language learners, but data on advanced learners of less commonly taught languages such as Arabic are scarce. This mixed-methods study reports words-per-minute and type-token ratios for three ACTFL levels--10 Intermediate Mid, 10 Advanced Mid, and 8…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction
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Tecedor, Marta – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
This study examined the development of interactional competence (Hall, 1993; He & Young, 1998) by beginning learners of Spanish as indexed by their use of alignment moves. Discourse analysis techniques and quantitative data analysis were used to explore how 52 learners expressed alignment and changes in participation patterns in two sets of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Spanish
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Mori, Yoshiko; Omori, Motoko; Sato, Kumi – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
This study explored the pedagogical benefits of flipped online kanji (i.e., Chinese characters used in Japanese) instruction integrated into college-level introductory and intermediate Japanese language courses. Using a quasi-experimental mixed design, the investigation looked at the effects of two instructional approaches: (1) a flip approach in…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design
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Kissau, Scott; Adams, Mary Jo; Algozzine, Bob – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
Multiple studies conducted over the past decade have suggested the motivational and proficiency-related benefits of commencing language instruction at an early age. Limitations in many of these studies, however, have prevented their results from being applied to the teaching of foreign languages in the United States. In response to calls for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, French, German, Spanish
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Hertel, Tammy Jandrey; Dings, Abby – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This article presents the quantitative and qualitative results of a nationwide survey of the perceptions of faculty, alumni, and students regarding the contribution to the undergraduate Spanish major curriculum of various types of courses and experiences. Quantitative results indicated that all participants valued the importance of study abroad as…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Alumni
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Regalla, Michele; Peker, Hilal – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined a teacher's prompting strategies and the use of dynamic assessment (DA) in an inclusive prekindergarten French program. Prior research has shown that DA is an effective method to assess both foreign language learning and first language development for typically developing students and for students with special needs, as well as…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Needs Assessment, Student Needs, Special Needs Students
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Angus, Katie – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Despite the sizeable portion of foreign language (FL) instruction provided by graduate students now as teaching assistants (TAs) and in the future as faculty, few studies have considered TAs' perspectives on their own professional development. To inform the professional development of FL graduate students as teachers, the present study updated and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Development, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Assistants
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Benavides, Carlos – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
The present study examined the use and effectiveness of a large corpus--the Corpus del Español (Davies, 2002)--in a 300-level Spanish grammar university course. Students conducted hands-on corpus searches with the goal of finding concordances containing particular types of collocations (combinations of words that tend to co-occur) and tokens (any…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Spanish, Language Teachers
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Cox, Troy L.; Clifford, Ray – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
Because listening has received little attention and the validation of ability scales describing multidimensional skills is always challenging, this study applied a multistage, criterion-referenced approach that used a framework of aligned audio passages and listening tasks to explore the validity of the ACTFL and related listening proficiency…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Guidelines, Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis
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Kim, Jeong-eun; Park, Hyunjin; Jang, Mijung; Nam, Hosung – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study investigated the cognitive effects of the flipped classroom approach in a content-based instructional context by comparing second language learners' discourse in flipped vs. traditional classrooms in terms of (1) participation rate, (2) content of comments, (3) reasoning skills, and (4) interactional patterns. Learners in two intact…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework
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