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Exploring the Listening Process to Inform the Development of Strategy Awareness-Raising Materials
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Blanco, Maria; Guisado, Juan J. – Language Learning Journal, 2012
This article reports on a small-scale qualitative study aimed at exploring the listening process in a group of Spanish beginners in a UK higher education context. The specific aim of the study was to inform the development of materials for listening strategy awareness-raising activities. The exploration was focused on identifying (a) strategies…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening, Learning Strategies, Qualitative Research
Learner Strategies and Self-Efficacy: Making the Connection
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Graham, Suzanne – Language Learning Journal, 2007
This article reports on part of a larger study of the impact of strategy training in listening on learners of French, aged 16 to 17. One aim of the project was to investigate whether such training might have a positive effect on the self-efficacy of learners, by helping them see the relationship between the strategies they employed and what they…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Listening Comprehension, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies
Exploring Progression: Reading and Listening Strategy Instruction with Near-Beginner Learners of French
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Harris, Vee – Language Learning Journal, 2007
Cross-study comparison of the impact of strategy instruction (SI) is problematic because of differences in learning settings, the periods of time over which it is undertaken and the nature of the SI itself. Few studies indicate how the choice of skill areas and strategies has been tailored to meet the learners' age, stage and proficiency level,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Intervention, French, Second Language Learning
GCSE, 1988 and Beyond: Preparing Yourself and Your Students.
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Buckby, Mike – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Selects the major demands in the new general syllabus for second-language learning in the United Kingdom and suggests ways in which teachers and learners can successfully fulfill them. These criteria center around vocabulary requirements and writing, speaking, listening, and reading tests. (10 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries
A Methodological Framework for the Teaching of Intercomprehension
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Doye, Peter – Language Learning Journal, 2004
In the following article the author presents a methodological framework for the teaching of intercomprehension. Competence in intercomprehension is seen as a realisation of the general human faculty for using and understanding language, which includes the ability to comprehend texts and utterances in "unfamiliar" languages. This competence can be…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Prior Learning, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods
Getting Started: Differentiation.
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Dutton, Nigel – Language Learning Journal, 1997
Discusses mixed ability teaching within the British comprehensive foreign language educational system. Findings reveal that the British system will not soon return to selective modern language teaching (MLT) focusing on grammar and translation, and it is concluded that differentiation is the key to successful MLT for the next century. (CK)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar