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The Full-Year Asian Language Concentration FALCON Program in Chinese Language at Cornell University.
McCoy, John – 1979
The Full-Year Asian Language Concentration (FALCON) program was designed for students who need an intensive program in Chinese to make them proficient enough for graduate study. Using L1, FALCON teaches students to express adult concepts in L2. Since good writing requires a great degree of proficiency, it is neglected initially for the sake of a…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Graduate Students
Al-Khanji, Rajai – 1987
The Strategic Interaction method has been found to be effective in developing oral skills among students in an intensive English language program at the University of Jordan, and holds promise for language instruction in other contexts. The method, which is predominantly communicative in nature, stresses language use and interaction in discourse…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Thody, Philip – 1985
Languages have lost status in the educational system, and oral skills are less effectively and rigorously taught. However, a University of Leeds program providing short, intensive courses in administrative and legal French for British civil servants has been found to be very effective in developing the participants' oral and aural skills. The…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Urbanski, Henry – 1984
In response to rapidly falling foreign language enrollments, the State University of New York College at New Paltz designed and actively promoted a language immersion program in the summer of 1981. The program consisted of instruction in twelve languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
