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Chapter Six: Contexts of Teaching and Testing
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Young, Richard F. – Language Learning, 2008
This chapter continues the focus on learning, but now in the context of schooling. How does a practice approach explain language learning in relationship to language teaching and language testing? In Practice Theory, a foreign language classroom is a site for pedagogical practices and what students learn is how to participate in those practices.…
Descriptors: Test Results, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Testing
Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion: An Experimental Study.
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Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – Language Learning, 1991
An experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect on French language proficiency of an integrated, formal, analytic and functional, communicative approach to second-language teaching in French immersion. The study consisted of 315 grade 7 early French immersion students. (28 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Grade 7, Immersion Programs