Student initiatives play an important role in inquiry-based science with all students, including English language learning (ELL) students. This study examined initiatives that elementary students made as they participated in an intervention to promote science learning and English language development over a three-year period. In addition, the…

Teachers' work is changing rapidly worldwide but is rarely a topic of sustained focus in the literature on teaching English as an additional language. Despite this lack of robust scholarly attention, ESL, bilingual, and content specialists working in primary, secondary, and tertiary contexts contend with the demands of changing demographics and…

This paper reports the results of a study which aimed to investigate how ubiquitous games influence English learning achievement and motivation through a context-aware ubiquitous learning environment. An English curriculum was conducted on a school campus by using a context-aware ubiquitous learning environment called the Handheld English Language…

A teaching method should embrace the total process of utilizing language material down to the application of the newly acquired knowledge in speech. FL learning should be situationally based and divided into speech activity units, to each of which the corresponding teaching method should be applied. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the possibilities and desirability of using French popular music and folk songs in teaching French as a second language. (RM)

Discusses the differences between first language learning and second language learning, examines arguments for and against an early start in second language learning and surveys recent and current practices in second language learning and teaching. (Author)

Stresses the need for all language teachers, and second language teachers in particular, to suit the content and the methodology of their lessons to their particular group of students. (PM)

Describes in detail a complete Latin lesson for a heterogeneously grouped 5th and 6th grade class in an inner city public school in Philadelphia. (PM)

Outlines the methods of using football in teaching French in the American classroom by using French Canadian newspapers and other visual media available in the United States, in addition to specific language activities. (LG)

Includes a review, rebutting the arguments in the subject book, W. Butzkamm's "Aufgeklaerte Einsprachigkeit..." ("Enlightened Monolingualism. Toward the Un-Dogmatizing of FL Method"). A bibliography is also provided of all titles on the subject of monolingualism which have appeared in "Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts" from 1955 to 1974.…

Comments on the article cited above emphasize that in media-aided instruction the main things to remember are the methodological and pedagogical aspects, and not the physical equipment, which leaves untouched the content and the concept of modern foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)