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Theme-Based Group Teaching of College Oral English: Endorsed by Students in Chinese EFL Context
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Gao, Fen – English Language Teaching, 2011
In this study the author tries to assess the effects of Theme-based Oral Approach (TOA) on the oral English proficiency of non-English majors as well as students' leaning motives and interests resulted from the approach in EFL class of China. The study follows the quantitative and qualitative method in light of questionnaire, interview, class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
The Pennsylvania Study and the "Audio-Lingual vs Traditional" Question
Clark, John L. D. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, French, German, Grammar Translation Method
An Evaluation of the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Project
Aleamoni, Lawrence M.; Richard E. Spencer – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Educational Objectives, Evaluation, Grammar Translation Method
Insight, Automatization and Creativity as a Strategy in F-L Learning
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Keuleers, Alfons – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
Part I reviews foreign language teaching methodologies and suggests extracting the most effective aspects of each to be synthesized into the Cognitive-Active-Situational (CAS) Method. Part II presents results of an experiment done to find the best way of achieving optimum balance between thinking and doing within the CAS Method. See FL 507 969 for…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Evaluation, Grammar Translation Method
A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENT IN FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEACHING. MCGRAW-HILL SERIES IN PSYCHOLOGY.
SCHERER, GEORGE A.C.; WERTHEIMER, MICHAEL – 1964
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A LARGE SCALE, TWO-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL STUDY COMPARING AN AUDIOLINGUAL WITH A TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IS PRESENTED. THIS EXPERIMENT WAS CARRIED OUT WITH STUDENTS IN FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR GERMAN CLASSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FROM 1960 TO 1962. RESULTS OF TESTS SEEM TO…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, German, Grammar Translation Method, Language Learning Levels
C'est la Guerre? Or Can Cognition and Verbal Behavior Co-Exist in Second Language Learning?
Belasco, Simon – Mod Lang J, 1970
Based on a series of papers presented at the 22nd University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1969 and other professional meetings. (DS)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Grammar Translation Method, Language Skills
A Macro-Study on the Impact of "Method" on Second Language Acquisition.
Landolfi, Liliana – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
Discusses research to determine whether the methodology used in English-as-a-Second-Language classes affected scores on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills. Test results of students in a Los Angeles school district exposed to a comprehension-based approach were compared to those exposed to a grammar-based approach. (21 references) (CFM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
Language Proficiency at Matriculation.
Ingram, D.E. – 1977
The paper reports some of the results of a preliminary survey of the language proficiency of matriculation students of French in Britain and Australia. The technique used (especially the use of Chief Examiners' reports) is justified and the deficiencies that exist in current matriculation examinations are noted. In particular, the examinations are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission (School), College Admission, College Students
Foreign Languages.
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Birkmaier, Emma Marie – Review of Educational Research, 1958
Trends in foreign language teaching are indicated through an examination of studies and projects conducted during the period 1953-58. Areas covered are the FLES programs, the problems of articulation, the language curriculum in secondary schools and colleges, teacher education, research interpretation, and testing as a key to evaluation. The…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Bibliographies, College Language Programs