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| Language Instruction | 4 |
| Speech | 4 |
| Second Language Learning | 3 |
| Speech Communication | 3 |
| Child Language | 2 |
| Learning Theories | 2 |
| Modern Languages | 2 |
| Social Dialects | 2 |
| Standard Spoken Usage | 2 |
| Bilingual Education | 1 |
| Consonants | 1 |
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| Modern Language Journal | 4 |
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Peer reviewedMacnamara, John – Modern Language Journal, 1973
Discusses the belief that meaning is primary to a child learning language and concludes that teachers should develop language programs in which the use of language would be essential rather than incidental. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Modern Languages
Peer reviewedAndersson, Theodore – Modern Language Journal, 1973
Critical review and discussion of John Macnamara's "Nurseries, Streets and Classrooms," Modern Language Journal, v57 n5-6 p250-4 Sep-Oct 1973. (RL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedJakobovits, Leon A. – Modern Language Journal, 1974
Briefly outlines the rationale for a transactional approach to language teaching. (PM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedBarrutia, Richard – Modern Language Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Language Instruction
