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Peer reviewedRampton, Ben – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Argues, from a sociolinguistic perspective, that second language (L2) research could usefully engage with some of the debates concerning postmodernity. Suggests that globalization presents an important range of empirical phenomena requiring serious L2 study. Indicates the kinds of linguistic assumptions that ideas about postmodernity draw into…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Language, Global Approach, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedOliver, Rhonda – Modern Language Journal, 1998
Examines controversial interactions between children, a group generally overlooked in second-language acquisition research. Specifically, the research focuses on (1) whether children can negotiate for meaning, (2) what strategies they use, and (3) whether there are differences between the ways adults and primary school children negotiate for…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMacnamara, John – Modern Language Journal, 1973
Discusses the belief that meaning is primary to a child learning language and concludes that teachers should develop language programs in which the use of language would be essential rather than incidental. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Modern Languages
Peer reviewedAsher, James J. – Modern Language Journal, 1972
Research was supported in part by a faculty grant from the San Jose State College Foundation. (DS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Experimental Teaching, German, Language Ability
Peer reviewedHolley, Freda M.; King, Janet K. – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Preparation of this article was supported by a U. S. Office of Education Fellowship. (DS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Techniques, Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedAndersson, Theodore – Modern Language Journal, 1973
Critical review and discussion of John Macnamara's "Nurseries, Streets and Classrooms," Modern Language Journal, v57 n5-6 p250-4 Sep-Oct 1973. (RL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedChristian, Donna – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Depicts the state of two-way immersion programs in the United States. Data indicate that these programs educate nonnative- English-speaking students, expand the nation's language resources by conserving the native-language skills of minority students and developing second-language skills in English-speaking students, and enhance crosscultural…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cultural Awareness, Educational Objectives
Download full textEddy, Peter A., Comp.; McLane, Kathleen, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1977
This is the seventeenth in a series of catalogues of documents in the ERIC system that are of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" from January through June, 1976. The list is compiled from all of the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Biculturalism
Eddy, Peter A., Comp.; McLane, Kathleen, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
This is the sixteenth in a series of catalogues of documents of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics that have been processed into the ERIC system. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" (RIE) from July through December 1975. The list is…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Biculturalism
