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Download full textMarium Abugasea Heidt – NECTFL Review, 2025
As language programs are endangered in K-16 contexts due to low enrollments, and for budgetary reasons, it is more important than ever to find enduring ways to help promote the study of languages and to make studying languages enjoyable for everyone. For sustainable language education, we need to focus on and promote the true purpose of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, Declining Enrollment
Direct linkRitz, Catherine; Sherf, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This large-scale study used a survey to collect data on K-12 world language program leadership and instructional practices in Massachusetts public schools, investigating associations between the presence of a program leader or primary evaluator who is a world language specialist and instructional practices, curriculum, and assessment. The study…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Kindergarten
Fielding, Ruth – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Language is commonly positioned as an economic resource. Recent debates have argued that policy interpretations of language as economic resource can potentially undermine language positioning and reduce understanding of the cognitive, cultural and social benefits of language learning. In monolingual policy contexts, such a positioning means that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Educational Benefits
Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Language Learning, 2013
Recent currents in language learning research highlight the social and emergent aspects of second language (L2) development and recognize that learners need opportunities for interaction in meaningful contexts supported by explicit attention to language itself. These perspectives suggest new ways of conceptualizing the challenges faced by children…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Role Perception, Academic Discourse, English Language Learners
Sklarz, David P. – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of the study was to conduct a comprehensive review of the research and best practices of exemplary elementary school World Language and Culture Programs. Specifically, (1) to assess the degree to which various program designs had most closely met the measurable goals of the American Council of Teachers of a Foreign Language, commonly…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bekleyen, Nilufer – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2011
This study was conducted in the English Language Teaching Department of a state university in Turkey. The aim of the study was to examine the differences in attitudes of teacher candidates before and after their short-term teaching experience with very young learners (VYL) of English. The study was performed during the first term of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), English Teachers
