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Finneran, Rosette Bambino – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2015
Why should second and foreign language teachers tune into instructed second language acquisition (ISLA)? There are many reasons, several of which have already been addressed in this forum. This paper examines one important benefit of keeping abreast of the field, namely, the opportunity for classroom instructors to extract pedagogical insights…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Liu, Qing-xue; Shi, Jin-fang – Online Submission, 2007
Language teaching approaches and methods have cast light on the language teaching theory and practice. There are still many controversies about their usefulness and appropriateness. This paper tries to analyze their effectiveness and weakness of several most influential teaching approaches and methods: Grammar-translation Method, Direct Method,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Grammar Translation Method, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Politzer, Robert L. – American Foreign Language Teacher, 1973
Revised version of a speech delivered at the Spring 1972 Meeting of the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Cloze Procedure, Grammar Translation Method
Xu, Huaxin – 1993
The question in English-As-Second-Language (ESL) classrooms is not whether a teaching method is good or not, but whether the teacher knows how, for what purpose, for what kind of students, and in what language situation a particular method is used to enhance learning effectively. In teaching English to Chinese students at Xi'an Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen
SALTZMAN, IRVING J. – 1967
RESEARCH HAS NOT YET YIELDED CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE SUPERIORITY OF THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE TEACHING OVER THE TRADITIONAL, GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD. COLLABORATION ON EXPERIMENTATION BY TRAINED PSYCHOLOGISTS AND LANGUAGE TEACHERS COULD YIELD THE RELIABLE AND USEFUL DATA NEEDED TO MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS ABOUT IMPROVING…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Experimental Programs, Experimental Teaching, Grammar Translation Method
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Cunningham, Denis – Babel: Australia, 1998
Presents a history of the use of technology in second-language instruction, beginning with the 1960s and the grammar translation method; through the audiolingual movement and language laboratories; into emerging use of tape recorders, videotapes, and computer-assisted language learning; and up through computer-assisted instruction, distance…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Meras, Edmond A. – 1962
Presented in this book for prospective and practicing foreign language teachers is an historical review of language teaching and teaching techniques--some new, some traditional. Presentation and method in relation to scholastic level and pupil interest are discussed, as well as language teaching in the elementary school, the use of audio-visual…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Colleges, Cultural Awareness
Banathay, Bela H., Ed. – 1967
The first half of the proceedings report is a transcript of the keynote address by Victor Hanzeli, and the second portion features remarks by other discussants, including Dwight Bolinger and James McClafferty. While Mr. Hanzeli's discussion centers on the relationship between linguistics and the language teacher, he offers background information…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Descriptive Linguistics, Educational Psychology