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Teachers' Language Use in University Foreign Language Classrooms: A Qualitative Analysis of English and Target Language Alternation.
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Polio, Charlene G.; Duff, Patricia A. – Modern Language Journal, 1994
In a follow-up project, this study examined how and when six university language teachers actually used English and the target language in the classroom. Results suggest that switches to English may be made to help maintain classroom order, to create solidarity or empathy, to cover lack of experience or strategies, or to rephrase or modify their…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), College Faculty, English
Student Perceptions of Foreign Language Study: A Qualitative Analysis of Foreign Language Autobiographies.
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Tse, Lucy – Modern Language Journal, 2000
Uses the foreign language autobiography to explore the perceptions of a group of adult foreign language learners toward a broad range of issues related to classroom atmosphere and instruction. Qualitative analysis of student writings revealed three categories of data: classroom interaction, perceived level of success, and attributions of success…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, College Students, Higher Education
Subject-Matter Content: How Does It Assist the Interactional and Linguistic Needs of Classroom Language Learners?
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Pica, Teresa – Modern Language Journal, 2002
Focused on the role of subject-matter in second language (L2) learning. Sought to identify ways in which teachers modified classroom interaction about subject-matter content in order to assist the input, feedback, and production needs of L2 learners and to promote their attention to developmentally difficult relationships of L2 form and meaning…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, English (Second Language), Feedback
Progress in Language Classroom Research: Evidence from "The Modern Language Journal," 1916-2000.
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Chaudron, Craig – Modern Language Journal, 2001
Reviews topical and methodological trends in the past 85 years of research on language classrooms in "The Modern Language Journal." Focus is on empirical investigations into oral classroom instruction in post-secondary classes, which include comparisons of language teaching methodology, observational procedures in classrooms, examinations of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Restructuring Classroom Interaction with Networked Computers: Effects on Quantity and Characteristics of Language Production.
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Kern, Richard G. – Modern Language Journal, 1995
This study examined the use of Daedalus InterChange, a local area computer network application, to facilitate communicative language use among college students in two elementary French courses. It found that students had more turns and used a greater variety of discourse functions when working in InterChange than they did in their oral…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Videoconferencing as Access to Spoken French.
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Kinginger, Celeste – Modern Language Journal, 1998
Analysis of French used in teleconferences between American and French university students, relative to technical and discursive dimensions and learners' Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), found much of the language used was beyond these learners' capability, due to heightened classroom anxiety and differences in language varieties used by…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis