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Using Images as Springboards to Teach Cultural Perspectives in Light of the Ideals of the MLA Report
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Barnes-Karol, Gwendolyn; Broner, Maggie A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The centrality of culture and language learning in foreign language instruction is highlighted in the "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" (National Standards, 2006) and the MLA report, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" (MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages, 2007).…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, National Standards, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Behavioral Objectives, Skinnerian Rats, and Trojan Horses
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Grittner, Frank M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1972
Reviews the place of behavioral objectives in the foreign language curriculum. Paper delivered as part of a debate on Behavioral Objectives: Pro and Con" held on November 26, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois, at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). (DS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Linguistic Competence
Connecting Language to Content: Second Language Literature Instruction at the Intermediate Level
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Hoecherl-Alden, Gisela – Foreign Language Annals, 2006
Meaningfully integrating multidimensional approaches with learner-centered, workshop-style second language (L2) literature instruction at intermediate-level proficiency can help students increase their linguistic competence and further both their cultural understanding and analytical thinking skills. Moreover, the utilization of drama techniques…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Literature, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Where Do We Go From Here?
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Baslaw, Annette S. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975
This paper examines the role of foreign language teaching in answering the external needs of students, including equipping the student with vocational or professional skills, and the internal needs, including the broadening of perception of self, society and culture. Communication in general and participation in society benefit from foreign…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, Interpersonal Competence
Moi Tarzan, Vous Jane?: A Study of Communicative Competence
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Powell, Patricia B. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975
Secondary students of French interviewed a researcher posing as a French speaker. Error patterns and structures used were analyzed. Many errors were apparently due to interference; many others were apparently the result of reduction processes. Results suggested that errors might be corrected in terms of comprehensibility to a native speaker.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, French