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Developing Listening Fluency through Supported Extensive Listening Practice
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Chang, Anna; Millett, Sonia; Renandya, Willy Ardian – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Although second language listening has become a rather active area of research in the past ten years, some topics such as listening fluency development and extensive listening (EL) have not received much attention. The purpose of the present study is to examine the levels of listening support that might be needed to facilitate L2 learners'…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
Fricatives and Flaps in Spanish and Strine
Thompson, R. W. – Engl Australia, 1970
Discusses problems Australian students face in learning to speak Spanish and recommends a detailed study of the varieties of languages taught in Australia. (SW)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bilingualism, Dialects, English
Sfery ustnoyazichnoro obshcheniya i obucheniye rechi (Varied Types of Verbal Communication and Speech Instruction)
Skalkin, V. L. – Russkij Yazyk za Rubezhom, 1973
The author differentiates eight types of verbal communication: (1) Socioeconomic, (2) Domestic, (3) Professional, (4) Sociocultural, (5) Public, (6) Legal-Administrative, (7) Recreational, (8) Entertaining. (HK)
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Semiotics, Socioeconomic Status
Communication's the Name of the Game. CATESOL Occasional Papers, No. 1, Fall, 1974.
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Rutherford, William E. – 1973
Most of what has been taught in the language classroom for a long while has been generally a reflection of the particular concept of language popular among linguistics at the time, but recently this trend has begun to break down. Recent texts are starting to be organized according to considerations besides linguistic criteria, for example,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Methodology and Technology in the Teaching of German.
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de Beaugrande, Robert – 1976
Some basic problems of current lower-division foreign language instruction are discussed from the standpoint of real-life language use, and specific measures for meeting some of the problems are suggested for learning German as a second language. Some of the significant discrepancies between the use of a language in real life and in the language…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics
Beginning Indonesian: Part One, Lessons 1-18.
Wolff, John U. – 1971
This volume is the first of two volumes of a basic elementary course in Indonesian (Malay). The aim of these materials is to prepare the student to communicate and read Indonesian as a native speaker does. The books are designed to be used with the help of a native-speaking informant who furnishes the model of speech for students to imitate. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Grammar, Indonesian
Beginning Indonesian: Part II, Lessons 19-30.
Wolff, John U. – 1971
This volume is the second of two volumes of a basic elementary course in Indonesian (Malay). The aim of the materials is to prepare the student to communicate and read in Indonesian as a native speaker does. The books are designed to be used with the help of a native-speaking informant who furnishes the model of speech for students to imitate. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Grammar, Indonesian