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Yusoff, Yuniza Mohd; Salehuddin, Khazriyati; Abdullah, Imran Ho; Toran, Hasnah – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2019
Purpose: The inclusion of an increasing number of high-functioning ASD children in mainstream classrooms demands for adequate awareness of autism and effective teaching methods from teachers to ensure that learning takes places efficiently. Hence, this study investigated the atypical language performance of a high-functioning Malay girl with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
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Kormos, Judit; Préfontaine, Yvonne – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present mixed-methods study examined the role of learner appraisals of speech tasks in second language (L2) French fluency. Forty adult learners in a Canadian immersion program participated in the study that compared four sources of data: (1) objectively measured utterance fluency in participants' performances of three narrative tasks…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
Kalivoda, Theodore B. – American Foreign Language Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Language Role, Linguistic Performance
Lapidus, B. A. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
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Stokes, P. M. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
Regular debating can be an effective way of improving the performance of ESL pupils and of assessing their language-learning propensities. It requires a lot of listening as well as speaking and generally seems to foster confidence in language use. The relationships set up in debating are pupil-pupil rather than pupil-teacher. (CFM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Debate, English (Second Language)
Jones, Arfon R. – 1970
The oral communication skills of bilingual students in Wales were examined in a study reported in this paper. Oral facility was treated according to five indices: quantity and quality of words in the oral response, time taken to complete the response, length of pauses and number of corrections and repetitions. Pictorial frames provided a visual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English
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Ott, C. Eric; And Others – 1977
The effects of a language versus a dialogue emphasis and a structured versus an unstructured follow-up in intensive language instruction were assessed using eighty-three students destined for missionary work in Spanish-speaking countries. A 2 X 2 analysis of variance design was employed, with students assigned to one of four treatments: language…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Allen, Edward D. – 1975
In the first part of this paper several theories on the subject of communicative competence are examined. Part 2 is devoted to a discussion of how a teacher can test for communicative competence, and the practicality of this type of testing, in terms of class time, equipment required and objective grading, is emphasized. Part 3 summarizes a number…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Theories, Language Instruction, Language Skills
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
van Ek, J. A. – 1975
This study, the culmination of a 3-year effort, represents the first step in the establishment of a European unit-credit system for foreign language learning by adults. Objectives are based on learners' needs and expressed in terms of operational learning objectives, with reference to the roles a language-user has to play, the settings in which he…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Credits
Cowe, Eileen Grace – 1967
A study of two public school kindergarten classes in New York City, heterogeneously grouped according to ethnic origin and social background, revealed that the maturity and fluency of the children's language varied according to the type of classroom activity in which they were engaged. From observational recordings of teacher-class interaction, it…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Instruction, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Magnan, Sally Sieloff – 1982
Research findings regarding speech errors made by second language learners and affective reactions to native speakers as a basis for error correction are considered. A research design is presented for investigating sensitivities to 15 types of grammatical errors typically made in speech by American learners of French. Findings of the research are…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), French, Grammar, Higher Education
Twaddell, W. F. – 1976
This guide describes well-established and practical pedagogical behaviors for a foreign language teacher in an ordinary situation, a classroom with 20-35 pupils who are beginning the study of a foreign language in school or college. The first chapter, "The Five Stages," discusses the stages through which an item (a word, construction, or idiom) in…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education, Language Fluency