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McDonald, Peter F.; Sager, J. C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
This article maintains that advanced language learning is inseparable from subject study in the foreign language in question, and that the teaching of specific disciplines in a foreign language should be the cornerstone of advanced language study. Curriculum and methods for advanced levels are discussed. (CLK)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Aptitude
Meyer, Laura K. – 1975
In general, the lower-class student has been considered scholastically inferior to the child of middle-class origins. More specifically, such a child has frequently been explicitly or implicitly denied the benefits of a foreign language learning experience on the basis of his/her inability to cope with the difficulty level assumed to be inherent…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Disadvantaged Youth
Rivers, Wilga M. – 1972
This volume includes the following seventeen essays on foreign language teaching: (1) "Rules, Patterns, and Creativity"; (2) "Talking Off the Tops of Their Heads"; (3) "From Linguistic Competence to Communicative Competence"; (4) "Testing and Student Learning"; (5) "Contrastive Linguistics in Textbook and Classroom"; (6) "From Skill Acquisition to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics