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Roche, Jorg – ADFL Bulletin, 1996
This article considers how graduate, diploma, and certificate programs in second-language acquisition and didactics, as well as intercultural communication, can help professionalize language instruction and benefit all levels of instruction. (36 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, College Students, Cultural Exchange
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King, Jeffrey M. – Journal of General Education, 1997
Describes new college teaching techniques using the brain-compatible teaching and learning model. Demonstrates that learning is based on the process of detecting and making patterns. Suggests maximizing use of local memory function to reduce dependency on rote learning and varying methods of classroom presentation to target different learning…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Educational Environment
Richards, Jack C.; Rodgers, Theodore S. – 1986
Each major trend in 20th-century second language teaching is explained, and similarities and differences are highlighted. An introductory chapter offers a brief history of second language teaching. The second chapter outlines a model for examining and comparing the different approaches. This model is used in subsequent chapters to describe methods…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis