Successful Teaching Strategies: Findings from a Case Study of Middle School African Americans Learning Arabic.

Moore, Zena T.; English, Mark

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Publication Date: 1998

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Successful Teaching Strategies: Findings from a Case Study of Middle School African Americans Learning Arabic.

Moore, Zena T.; English, Mark

Foreign Language Annals, v31 n3 p347-57 Fall 1998

A six-month case study of 10 African-American middle school students in an inner-city school setting provided the data for this article. Contrary to previous studies on first-language second-language transfer, the study showed that the students L1 (African-American English) facilitated the learning of Arabic. (Author/JL)

Descriptors: Arabic, Black Dialects, Case Studies, Inner City, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Language Acquisition, Middle Schools, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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