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Montgomery, Joel R. – Online Submission, 2008
This working paper will explore the usefulness of Cummins' framework relating language proficiency to academic performance (1983) as a reflection and planning tool for continuous improvement of second language learning (SLL) instruction. SLL activities designed for a Language Experience intervention class for seventh and eighth grade English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Enrichment, Language Proficiency, Instructional Design
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Nault, Dianne M. – Learning Languages, 2007
In immersion programs, language is not directly taught, but rather embedded into the content of a lesson. The target language is the medium of the lesson, not the object of the instruction. A story provides a language experience and encourages students to participate actively in the lesson. Children are also more apt to learn and retain ideas and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Immersion Programs, Picture Books, American Indians
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Schneider, Judith Morganroth – Hispania, 1990
Describes the University of Maryland at Baltimore County's one-week foreign language exploratory program for fourth through sixth grade students, and details methods and strategies used to conduct "Spanish Day," where students learned about Spanish language and culture through songs, games, and stories. (CB)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Elementary Education, Language Enrichment, Second Language Instruction
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Hummel, Cynthia N. – Die Unterrichtspraxis: Teaching German, 1990
Suggestions for incorporating correspondence with German-speaking people as part of high school German instruction include tips for testing, follow-up activities, writing activities, and pen-pal activities. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: German, High Schools, Language Enrichment, Letters (Correspondence)
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de Llano-Neilley, Lola M. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Association, 1989
Discusses the advantages of using video materials in teaching Spanish at an intermediate level, where there are typically several levels of language knowledge and ability. Such materials improve students' ability to understand language context, listening comprehension, discussion skills, and awareness of different uses of language. (CB)
Descriptors: Films, Instructional Materials, Language Enrichment, Listening Comprehension
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Hartley, Peggy J. – Hispania, 1990
Presents authentic Spanish rhymes and jingles that elementary school foreign language teachers can incorporate in classroom activities. The rhymes not only introduce children to the oral and cultural traditions of the language but also serve as language drills for increasing Spanish vocabulary. (CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, FLES, Language Enrichment
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Danesi, Marcel; D'Alfonso, Aldo – Italica, 1989
Describes a "Vichian" approach (involving linguistic imagination and creativity) to the exploration of basic pedagogical matters in classroom language teaching. The approach is based on principles involving: (1) concrete language knowledge; (2) development from the concrete to the abstract; (3) the role of metaphor in verbal creativity;…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Enrichment, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
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Sotiriadis, Caterina, Ed. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Briefly describes learning activities for teaching French to elementary and secondary school students. The activities teach number concepts, simple structures, vocabulary development, word games, and language accents. (CB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, French, Games
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Wells, Christine S. – Hispania, 1990
Discusses the effectiveness of student-created oral presentations and visual displays in helping second-language students personalize and internalize the second language, and proposes structural guidelines that provide students flexibility in developing Spanish-language drama, writing, and art activities. (CB)
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Language Enrichment, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction
Shrum, Judith – 1983
The foreign language camps, operated by Virginia Tech since 1981, offer high school students a one-week foreign language experience in French, German, or Spanish. The camps bring together native speakers, high school students and teachers, and university students and faculty to experience learning situations similar to those encountered in a…
Descriptors: Camping, Enrichment Activities, French, German
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Wulf, Herwig – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1987
Describes the history of use of language laboratories in foreign language instruction and argues that both the quality and quantity of such activities fell short of the laboratories' potential. (CB)
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Language Enrichment, Language Laboratories, Pattern Drills (Language)
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Bruno, Salvatore – Italica, 1989
Describes class activities for incorporating and teaching about opera into the Italian language instruction classroom, focusing on the enhancement of cultural knowledge and understanding that opera offers. (CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Interdisciplinary Approach, Italian
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Schaepe, Richard H.; Barrow, Jack E. – IALL Journal of Language Learning Technologies, 1991
A review of the language laboratory-related relationships between context and background knowledge, individualization and learner characteristics, feedback and continuing assessment, and focus and sequence supports foreign language teachers' use of eclectic, integrative, and alternative approaches that make full use of language laboratory…
Descriptors: Individual Instruction, Individual Needs, Language Enrichment, Language Laboratories
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Stone, Ronald – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1990
Explores how the incorporation of literature study can be easily achieved in foreign language study and enrich foreign language learning, describing one particular method that quickly and actively involved students in reflecting on a German short story through brief readings and exploratory questions. (CB)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, German, German Literature, High Schools
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Docker, Julie – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1990
Presents two-role scenarios involving persons with conflicting needs or interests to enhance foreign language students' strategic intervention language skills in realistic situations. The scenarios not only encourage students to think through strategies to resolve a problem or conflict but also use their language skills to communicate effectively…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Italian, Language Enrichment, Oral Language
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