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Dube, Pierre – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
One college faculty member's collection of unprepared students' amusing answers to test questions on French civilization includes errors of information, spelling, and grammar, and student humor. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Education, French, Higher Education
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Holmes, Glyn – Modern Language Journal, 1980
Discusses the reasons for growing disenchantment with the language laboratory and introduces a novel approach to advanced listening comprehension exercises based on recordings of professional entertainers. Analyzes the sketches as examples of authentic discourse, as illustrations of different speech registers and regional variants, and as vehicles…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Audiotape Recordings, Cultural Awareness, French
Christensen, Torkil – Journal of the Faculty of General Education of Sapporo University, 1984
An experimental one-year course in English for freshman nonmajors at a Japanese university is described and discussed. Classes, comprised of over 50 students, met once a week for 90-minute lessons. The syllabus focused on the thorough learning of short, humorous stories and activities developed from the stories. In class, English was used as much…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content
Heyer, Elfriede A. – 1985
Advertisements can be used in many ways to facilitate the teaching of a commercial language. If reproduced as slides or other visual aids, they serve as a visual warm-up exercise for each class period, either reinforcing previously discussed topics or introducing new ones. Catchy headlines in commercials promote rapid expansion of vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Communication, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Dawson, Clayton; Provenzano, Nolen – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
Situation comedy (sitcom) dialogs that are included in PLATO lessons for first year Russian students are described. These comprehension exercises make use of both the touch panel and the audio capabilities of PLATO. The sitcom dialogs were written by a native speaker of Russian and are based on the vocabulary in the textbook plus a small number of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, College Second Language Programs, Comedy, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bailey, Tandy, Ed. – Crosscurrents, 1992
Articles on various aspects of second language teaching include: "Global Education Language Teaching Activities" (Kip A. Cates); "Classroom Management in Japanese Colleges and Universities: Some Practical Approaches" (Paul Wadden, Sean McGovern); "Control: An Independent Learning Model" (Don Maybin, Lynn…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness