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Trebiocchi, Chiara – NECTFL Review, 2022
Post-communicative methodologies nowadays provide instructors with multiple curricular models to reimagine their syllabi, design creative assignments, and prepare their lessons. Yet, challenging topics are still often avoided, fearing students' limited language proficiency. Conversely, compelling content--carefully presented and pedagogically…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Course Descriptions
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McCabe, Anne – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article provides results of analysis of data collected from online Spanish-medium subject courses taught in Spanish by the same teacher to students whose first language is English. The students are at a high-intermediate to advanced level (B2-C1), and are enrolled at an American university in Madrid in courses centring on topics of Spanish…
Descriptors: Spanish, Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McCabe, Anne – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article provides results of analysis of data collected from online Spanish-medium subject courses taught in Spanish by the same teacher to students whose first language is English. The students are at a high-intermediate to advanced level (B2-C1), and are enrolled at an American university in Madrid in courses centring on topics of Spanish…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hüttner, Julia; Smit, Ute – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
While research on CLIL suggests positive impacts on lexical proficiency and on spoken language, the crucial question of the effect of CLIL on advanced learners, both in terms of subject-specific language (SSL) proficiency and content knowledge, has received less attention. We argue that the ability to negotiate a factual position appropriately is…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Brantmeier, Cindy; Vanderplank, Robert; Strube, Michael – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
In an investigation with advanced language learners, Brantmeier [Brantmeier, C., 2006. "Advanced L2 learners and reading placement: self-assessment, computer based testing, and subsequent performance." "System" 34 (1), 15-35.] reports that self-assessment (SA) of second language (L2) reading ability, when measured with self-rated scales, is not an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Advanced Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning
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Moskver, Katherine V. – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
This article explores the possibility of combining in the same course heritage learners who are borderline or seminative speakers with advanced language learners of Russian. After providing typology of advanced language learners in Russian and establishing that register and genre can be the focal point of such a course, the article discusses the…
Descriptors: Media Selection, Learning Strategies, Russian, Second Language Learning
Strong, Robert Marvin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study is to build upon our understanding of the place and value of writing in the advanced foreign language curriculum. Specifically, the study examines how students in writing-intensive Spanish-major courses are affected by the writing-intensive (WI) requirement at the University of Minnesota. Writing-Across-the-Curriculum…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Rhetoric, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Bushell, Anthony – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Discusses the dichotomy between traditional expectations of advanced courses and the actual capabilities of many of the present generation of language students. One result of this dichotomy has been the disappearance of medieval and philological studies from the teaching programs of most modern- language degree schemes in the United Kingdom. (CK)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Content, Foreign Countries
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Lemonnier, France H.; Guimont, Lionel – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
This paper presents a French-as-a-Second-Language writing course for non-Francophone students at an advanced university level. Because this approach to teaching writing focuses on the writer (and on the reader's expectations), as well as on textuality, the organization (i.e., the architecture) of this course is as complex as writing. (32…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Course Content
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Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1971
This course is designed to meet the needs of any student, either concurrently or previously enrolled in third- or fourth-year French, who desires to review the essentials of French grammar and to increase his vocabulary. It is, however, specifically planned for those who want to take the College Board Achievement Test in French. For that reason,…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, College Entrance Examinations, Course Content, Course Descriptions
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Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
This course outline for advanced students of Spanish is based on Units 24 and 25 of "A-LM Spanish," first edition, with numerous materials added. The multiple skills of language are enhanced with continued emphasis on guided discussion and free conversation. Nominalization with the definite, indefinite, and neuter articles is among the…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Audiolingual Methods, Course Content, Course Descriptions