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Ilerten, Ferda; Efeoglu, Gülümser – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
The aim of the current study is to evaluate a preparatory progfram of a foreign language teaching department longitudinally via Patton's Utilization Focused Program Evaluation. More specifically, the study scrutinizes the pros, cons and aspects to be improved in the program, and whether the program contributes to overall English proficiency in two…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Program Evaluation, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Hieke, Adolf E. – 1977
Language laboratories are especially neglected at the intermediate and advanced levels of foreign language learning. Teachers fail to avail themselves of an important teaching tool at a critical point, when the more mechanical aspects of assimilating the target language should give way to gaining an actual communicative competence in it. At the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education
Vanasco, Lourdes C. – 1994
This paper discusses the importance of listening comprehension in the learning of English as a Second Language (ESL). It is argued that more emphasis needs to be given to the neglected skills of listening comprehension, since most training in oral communication at the secondary and college level focuses on effective speaking. The paper outlines…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Andrade, Manuel; And Others – 1964
The Stanford-Denver Project is a continuing study of elementary school Spanish instruction. These five documents report on various aspects of this study, especially the use of new technology to make instruction of Spanish more efficient. The first study details the construction of a listening comprehension test which could be given via television…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Conversational Language Courses, Educational Programs, Educational Television
Sanders, Carol, Ed. – 1981
The papers in this volume discuss practical approaches to some of the current problems of degree-level language teaching. Section one discusses non-literary registers in advanced language teaching including the use of texts in teaching, suggestions for a course in practical sociolinguistics, and exercises for advancing from paraphrase to an…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Practices, French, Group Instruction
Fryer, T. Bruce, Ed.; Medley, Frank W., Jr., Ed. – 1986
Selected papers from the 1984 and 1985 meetings of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching include: "Perspectives on Proficiency: 1985"; "Developmental Stages in Functional Language Proficiency"; "Cultural Understanding, Oral Proficiency, and Study Abroad: Getting It All Together"; "Developing Functional…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques