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Direct linkKallkvist, Marie – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article explores the value of judiciously used first language (L1)-to-second language (L2) translation in meaning-focused, advanced-level academic language education. It examines languaging in the teacher-led discourse (TLD) that arises when translation tasks are used and compares it to languaging during the TLD engendered by 4 other…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Qualitative Research, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedPilarcik, Marlene A. – Modern Language Journal, 1985
Describes a technique used in an English composition course to encourage student experimentation with different language choices. The students are given a Chinese poem, along with a romanized pronunciation and dictionary translation of each character. They are then instructed to write a few sentences in English conveying the poem's message. (SED)
Descriptors: Chinese, English Instruction, Higher Education, Poetry
Peer reviewedHorn, Pierre L. – Modern Language Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Course Content, English, French, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGarrett, Nina – Modern Language Journal, 1986
This article (1) discusses the relationship between grammatical and communicative competence; (2) examines aspects of grammar theory; (3) discusses pedagogical problems inherent in traditional notions of grammar; and (4) summarizes the pedagogical and research implications of a new perspective on the role of grammar in foreign language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar Translation Method, Interlanguage, Language Processing
Peer reviewedHammerly, Hector – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Educational Objectives, Grammar Translation Method
Peer reviewedPrince, Peter – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Discusses an experiment in testing college students in France on their recall of newly learned English words in order to compare the advantages and disadvantages of context and translation learning as a function of learner proficiency. Results reveal a superiority of translation learning in terms of quantity, but an inability of weaker learners to…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Download full textEddy, Peter A., Comp.; McLane, Kathleen, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1977
This is the seventeenth in a series of catalogues of documents in the ERIC system that are of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" from January through June, 1976. The list is compiled from all of the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Biculturalism
Eddy, Peter A., Comp.; McLane, Kathleen, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
This is the sixteenth in a series of catalogues of documents of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics that have been processed into the ERIC system. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" (RIE) from July through December 1975. The list is…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Biculturalism
McLane, Kathleen, Comp.; Omaggio, Alice, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1977
This is the eighteenth in a series of catalogues of documents in the ERIC system that are of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" (RIE) from July through December 1976. The list is compiled from all…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
