In recent years, short videos have proliferated on various social media platforms, serving as a visual resource with a long history of use for various educational purposes, including foreign language learning (FLL). Despite the growing interest in the use of such platforms for short video learning, little is currently known about the use of these…

The purpose of this study was to examine whether technology- based learning environments have the potential to support dual-language learners' (DLLs) vocabulary learning in their less dominant language. Interrogating Dual-Coding Theory (Paivio, 1986), this study investigates whether DLLs benefit from media content that is delivered both orally and…

In this thesis, I present three related papers that collectively investigate the instructional supports on screen and in the media viewing context that influenced English and heritage language vocabulary knowledge in DLLs. In study 1, I examine how specific pedagogical approaches used in educational media might benefit DLLs. In study 2, I…

The program entitled "English in Action (EIA)", 9 year period DFID funded project in Bangladesh, was launched in 2008, for the desire to bring a change in the learning of English language. EIA works to reach a total of 25 million primary and secondary students and adult learners through communicative language learning techniques and the…

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A unified, coherent pedagogical treatment of stress in all inflected words in Russian is elaborated here, using three notational symbols: the acute, the crossed acute and the wedge. (CHK)

A discussion of the use of comedy as a television program format for teaching English as a second language. (HB)

Gives a typology of various possible approaches to grammar teaching, involving grammars for learning, for skill acquisition, and those which look at course organization, media and teaching aids. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Examines two recent books on the French chanson, and finds that the chanson is a desirable item in teaching French, specifically at Secondary Grade 2, for various reasons, including the students' interest in the subject. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Defends the audiovisual CREDIF course "De Vive Voix" against criticism by J. Firges maintaining that not the method but the working conditions are to blame for the poor success of the course. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Items discussed include: setting of communicative goals, meaning of the target skill "reading comprehension," group work, correcting, games, the monolingual approach, and teaching materials. (IFS/WGA)

Planned changes in instructional television programming for grades 5-10 for the school year 1974/5, and to some extent for 1975/6, are reported. Information regarding seminars for inservice training and suppliers of written material is given. (RM)

Discusses the use of drawings in foreign language courses for adults. Accompanying texts should be unambiguous--preferably reports of experiences or anecdotes. Also considered is the use of political cartoons. A list of expressions for use in discussing pictures is included. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Only through the integration of various media can the methodological principle of the "social event" be used successfully. This principle is explained, using as an example the social event "excuses." Suggestions are given regarding teacher education in the method, including use of the media. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)