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Overfield, Denise – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1997
Discusses the incorporation of "service-learning" into college curricula. Describes a project linking classroom language to the target culture. Results indicate that students increase their awareness of the communicative value of the target language, reflect on their own learning, and learn a second language in context. (eight…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect, Cultural Awareness