This study considers the relative benefits for vocabulary learning of exposure to two types of texts--literary or nonliterary--used with two teaching approaches. These approaches were termed "functional and creative", respectively. In the former, learners' attention was drawn to factual information and linguistic features in order to…

This article analyzes whole-class discussions between a teacher and her students in a Latin American Colonial literature course at the college level. The study is theoretical-exploratory in nature in that it (a) articulates theoretical assumptions inherent in an ecological perspective on second language learning and teaching and (b) attempts to…

This listing of foreign language doctoral degrees granted in 1974-1975 is a supplement to the list published in "The Modern Language Journal" in January-February 1976. (CHK)

Using a quantitative approach, this study explores the use of textual elaboration as a modification option for literary texts in an intermediate-level Spanish as a second language (L2) course. The results suggest that, with elaborative modifications, literary texts could have an expanded role in L2 instruction for lower proficiency students, thus…

Lists doctoral degrees granted in the United States in African languages and literatures; Celtic languages and literatures; comparative literature; foreign-/second-language acquisition and teaching; French, Germanic, and Italian languages and literatures; theoretical linguistics; Near and Middle Eastern languages and literatures; and Portuguese,…

This listing of doctoral degrees in foreign languages is organized by major field, listed alphabetically. Within each field, institutions are given alphabetically, as are candidates' names. The thesis director's name is provided. (CHK)

Issue devoted to ways in which foreign literatures are taught in the language classroom. (DS)

The Integrated Learning Semester program at the University of Delaware is described. Courses were designed around themes touching several academic areas and instructors cooperated in teaching courses. A course in literature and music of Romanticism is outlined and specific problems and procedures for implementing a program are noted. (CHK)

Provides the institution, author, dissertation title, and dissertation director for doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and foreign language education in the United States in 1994. Entries are grouped by subject. (MDM)

Discusses the meaning of the term "literature," surveying various definitions, and concentrating on the elements of "style" and "message". (AM)

Documents the changing role that literature has played in foreign language teaching as seen through the articles published in the "Modern Language Journal" between 1916 and 1999. (Author/VWL)

In this article, we extend Firth and Wagner's (1997) call for an ontological perspective that (re)unites the individual and the social by proposing some fundamental implications that this call has for second language (L2) classroom praxis and teacher education. We propose that the (re)unification of language and culture (re)establishes the unity…

Provides data from the Modern Language Association's survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and foreign language education in the United States. (Author/VWL)

Provides results of the Modern Language Journal's annual survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, and linguistic in foreign language education in the United States. (Author/VWL)