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Direct linkDahm, Rebecca – International Review of Education, 2017
One way to foster active social inclusion is to enable students to develop a positive attitude to "foreignness". Creating a situation where mainstream students are less wary of foreign languages and cultures, and where newcomers feel their linguistic background is being valued, provides favourable conditions for the inclusion of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Wigham, Ciara R. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Higher education institutions are increasingly interested in offering more flexible teaching and learning delivery methods that are often independent of place. Where foreign language learning is concerned, telecollaboration is gaining ground. This paper focuses on synchronous webconferencing-supported teaching and examines how different semiotic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Semiotics
Le Pichon, Emmanuelle; De Swart, Henriette; Vorstman, Jacob A. S.; Van Den Bergh, Huub – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
In a previous study, we demonstrated that the experience of learning a new language positively influences the metacognitive awareness of young plurilingual children in terms of willingness to communicate and strategic competence. In the present study, we expanded the analyses of the observations of 101 children to examine two hypotheses. First, we…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, English (Second Language), International Schools, Learning Experience
Download full textGruson, Brigitte; Barnes, Francoise – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
Under the French national project "1000 video conferencing systems for primary schools", a growing number of schools are being equipped of video conferencing systems. The assumption underlying this project is that, by putting students in a position to communicate with distant native speakers, it will enable them to improve their oral and…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Native Speakers, Learning Strategies, Video Technology
Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Raby, Francoise – ReCALL, 2007
This study was carried out in a language centre, in French higher education. Teachers and researchers had contrived a pedagogical system labeled guided autonomy which combined class attendance in groups and self-study in the self-study room. This kind of autonomous and technologically enhanced learning system will be referred to as CAALL (Computer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Abe, Daniele; And Others – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1981
Reports on an evaluation of the self-directed English study program for adults of C.R.A.P.E.L. (France). The evaluation is based on an analysis of 15 recorded interviews covering 20 hours of conversation between individual students and program counselors. Only students' comments on their progress, their problems, and learning strategies are…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Continuing Education, English, Independent Study
Moore, Daniele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This contribution documents the strategies bi/plurilingual children spontaneously develop when confronted with a task that demands comprehension of texts in a third language. To illustrate these strategies in context, the paper draws from classroom interaction excerpts: small groups of children (ages 8-10) discover meaning in a text in a language…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Learning Strategies
Arroyo, Francine; Avelino, Cristina – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Examines the role of films as an instructional aid in class activities devoted to learning a foreign language as well as one's native tongue with the support of modern technology. One of the primary ways of using film to encourage learning is to interest the students in criticizing the film and then to expose them to published criticism of the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Film Criticism, Foreign Countries
Malandain, Jean-Louis – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Within the sphere of information, the term "interactive" has acquired a meaning that encompasses the usage of information networks and the end results of accessing the information. This article emphasizes that teachers of second languages can best meet the academic needs of their students by guiding their usage of computer information to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Peer reviewedDaniels, Henry; And Others – System, 1986
Describes an experiment whose principal aim was to examine how a classroom silent period, devoted almost exclusively to aural comprehension, operates. In the case of the French adult learners of English involved in this study, 60 hours proved to be a satisfactory period. (SED)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
Brooks, Bill – CLE Working Papers, 1994
This paper summarizes the past, present, and future of Eurodisney in France from cultural awareness and cultural business ethics viewpoints, suggesting that although the French have not bought into the American dream that is Disney, they are so heavily involved in Eurodisney from a financial angle that they can do naught but continue to provide…
Descriptors: Business, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Cultural Maintenance
Blue, George, Ed. – 1994
This third volume by the Centre for Language in Education (CLE) is intended to bring together a number of concerns currently under review at the Centre. Articles in this issue include: "Managing Open Learning" (Vicky Wright); "Self-Assessment of Foreign Language Skills: Does It Work?" (George Blue); "Language Awareness and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
