There is a lack of research evaluating the effects of digital textbooks and digital apps on learning for early elementary school learners. Therefore, this study conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate how an iPad application for learning English as a foreign language impacted children's grammar understanding, satisfaction, persistence,…

In much current language teaching using the communicative approach, the use of texts in the classroom is overly restricted. This is true of both the types of texts used and the activities based on them. Three conventional "communicative" uses of texts illustrate this: using texts to practice processes of language use, to serve as models,…

Outlines an approach to teaching literature that provides a preliminary sensitization to an assigned literary work by having students invent a story using given elements. This approach involves learners in individual taping of the invented story, thematic vocabulary research, and a class exercise in reconstructing the text by asking questions…

Authentic video documents produced for an audience of native speakers can provide a valuable complement to traditional teaching materials. Foreign language teachers will find the task of choosing materials both enriching and less demanding by working in teams. Practical ways the teacher can use "off-air" materials more effectively are suggested,…

Authentic listening materials are appropriate and desirable for instruction in English as a second language (ESL) for business purposes for several reasons: they have high interest, leading to enhanced motivation and increased opportunity for learning; they contain many natural redundancies and repetitions that facilitate comprehension; and they…

The use of mass media as a means of learning a foreign language from the beginning of language study is discussed. Using the media enables many of the features of the natural language acquisition process to be brought into play in a way that much current language teaching material does not. This position is supported by recent research into the…