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Download full textPlutino, Alessia – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This paper provides an overview of the successful pedagogical project TwitTIAMO, now in its third year, where micro blogging (Twitter) has been used in Italian language teaching and learning to improve students' communicative language skills, accuracy, fluency and pronunciation outside timetabled lessons. It also explores the background and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Language Skills, Language Fluency, Language Acquisition
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this study is to report the history of communication strategy and highlight the importance of strategic competence. It provides the histories and characterizations of communication strategy. Besides, it presents from which perspectives these definitions of communication strategies were developed. Various earlier and latter…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adult Learning, Adult Students, English (Second Language)
Direct linkNicolaidis, Katerina; Mattheoudakis, Marina – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2012
This paper proposes a new method for the combined teaching of pronunciation and vocabulary to learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). While there is commonly strong emphasis on the teaching of vocabulary, pronunciation teaching is frequently neglected in the EFL classroom. The proposed method aims to address such imbalance which may…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Pronunciation Instruction, English (Second Language)
Gao, Sixia – English Language Teaching, 2009
Many college English teachers lay emphasis on language meaning instead of language forms in order to satisfy the need of new college English curricular, change the present situation of "dumb-and-deaf English" and improve the students' communicative competence. This approach upgrades the fluency but slows down accuracy, which results in…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Form Classes (Languages)
Spada, Nina; Lightbown, Patsy M. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
There is increasing consensus that form-focused instruction helps learners in communicative or content-based instruction to learn features of the target language that they may not acquire without guidance. The subject of this article is the role of instruction that is provided in separate (isolated) activities or within the context of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Cognitive Psychology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Donovan, L. G. – Selecta, 1985
The Natural Approach to second language instruction has theoretical flaws and tends to reverse teaching methods that have been used successfully for many years. The approach exaggerates the presumed failure of previous language programs and ignores some important characteristics of children's language learning processes. It assumes that explicit…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
