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Peer reviewedGardner, R. C.; Smythe, P. C. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
Motivational variables associated with second language acquisition are discussed. (Author/PMP)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Motivation, Second Language Learning
Racle, Gabriel – Francais dans le Monde, 1977
Discusses the role of speed in second language learning, specifically the idea that speech in teaching leads to speed in learning. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedStrevens, Peter – Daedalus, 1973
Language teachers continue to seek means to improve the ease and effectiveness of language learning, through modifications in their ways of teaching. (Author)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Theories, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Hammerman, Myrna Lynn – 1979
The suggestopedic technique of second language instruction is sketched. Recent efforts to adopt the technique in parts of the American West are reviewed. The historical precedent of suggestopedia and the interpretation of the technique by two linguists at the 1979 TESOL convention are investigated. Hypnosis is compared to suggestopedia, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Hypnosis, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Hammerman, Myrna Lynn – 1979
A thorough investiqation is attempted of efforts to apply hypnosis and suggestive learning techniques to education in general and specifically to second language learning. Hypnosis is discussed in terms of its dangers, its definition, and its application. Included in this discussion is a comparison of auto- and hetero-hypnosis, an overview of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Hypnosis, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedStern, H. H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
Discusses development and objectives of language educational centers concerned with the signigicance of applied linguistics in the development of second language learning theory. (RL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Linguistics
Peer reviewedBerman, Ruth Aronson – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Discusses the need for both a "rule of thumb" grammar and more thorough grammatical rules in second language teaching. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedFischer, Robert A. – Modern Language Journal, 1979
Presents a learning transfer principle, based on transfer theory and contrastive analysis, as a solution to the inductive-deductive controversy in second language teaching methodology. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deduction, Grammar, Induction
Aupecle, Maurice – Francais dans le monde, 1974
A technique for more efficient teaching and learning of reading comprehension in a second language is presented. (Text is in French.) (PMP)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Development
Rouquette, Michel-Louis – Francais dans le Monde, 1975
The pedagogue is caught between the qualitative and quantitative or regularized aspects of his work, a situation not automatically conducive to scientific study. The article refreshes the instructor on the elementary principles of experimentation: observation, systematization, elaboration of hypothesis, and startegies of comparison. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Experiments, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Collier, Roy W. – 1974
The existence of a state of consciousness attained through transcendental meditation and characterized by specific qualities that would facilitate the acquisition of language is proposed. This theory is supported by analogies between certain conceptualizations of quantum physics and various aspects of transcendental meditation. Comparisons are…
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Mechanics (Physics), Perception
Bennett, W. A. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Psychology
Peer reviewedWalmsley, John B. – Modern Language Journal, 1979
Reviews current foreign language teaching methodology as it concerns the organization of the lesson into phases, and presents an alternate phase-sequence entailing linguistic environment, application, remedial, monitor, and feedback phases. (AM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Lesson Plans, Psycholinguistics
Download full textBelasco, Simon – 1972
Von Humboldt wrote in 1836 that "....one cannot really teach language but can only present the conditions under which it will develop spontaneously in the mind in its own way..." The author critically illustrates his reasons for supporting this theory of language learning. Concluding remarks summarize advantages and disadvantages of using…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Instructional Materials, Instructional Program Divisions, Language Instruction
Bancroft, W. Jane – TESL Talk, 1978
The Lozanov method, a foreign language teaching method that combines yoga, the Mauger direct method, and traditional teaching methods, is discussed briefly. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English (Second Language), Instructional Innovation, Language Instruction
