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The Haitong Project: Exploring a Collaborative Approach to Implement TBLT in Primary Classrooms in China
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Zhu, Yan; Shu, Dingfang – Language Teaching, 2017
As one of the two "educational special zones" in China, Shanghai is launching a new round of curriculum reforms centring on "lide shuren," viz. "fostering integrity and promoting rounded development of people" (Hu 2012). Apart from piloting a new plan for "Gaokao," the national college entrance examination…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Research in Progress: Invited Colloquium--Foreign Languages in an Age of Globalization
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Kramsch, Claire – Language Teaching, 2013
With the advent of globalization and the increasingly multilingual and multicultural nature of nations, institutions and classrooms, the fundamental nature of foreign language instruction is changing. Such traditional notions as: "native speaker", "target culture", "standard L2" are becoming problematic with the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, Literacy
Research in Foreign Language Education in Portugal (2006-2011): Its Transformative Potential
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Vieira, Flávia; Moreira, Maria Alfredo; Peralta, Helena – Language Teaching, 2014
This article reviews a selective corpus of empirical and theoretical texts on foreign language pedagogy and teacher education, produced in Portugal between 2006 and 2011. A descriptive and interpretative approach is adopted to inquire into the transformative potential of research, with a focus on its scope, purposes, conceptual and methodological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning