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Nasra Ali Al Abrawi – Education 3-13, 2024
This article considers students in Grades 3 and 4 and their parents' views regarding learning English as a modern foreign language (MFL) in the primary school, through questionnaires in the Muscat region and AL Dahira region, and interviews with students. This study found that Omani people are interested in language learning. Parents were willing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Milton, James; Hopwood, Oliver – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The vocabulary content of the French MFL curriculum in England has received criticism (Häcker, M. 2008. Eleven pets and 20 ways to express one's opinion: the vocabulary learners of German acquire at English secondary schools. "The Language Learning Journal" 36, no. 2: 215-26; Tschichold, C. 2012. French vocabulary in Encore…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vanderplank, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Watching foreign language programmes and films with captions (same-language subtitles intended for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) has been shown to assist learners in phonetic retuning, vocabulary acquisition and listening comprehension [e.g. Mitterer and McQueen, 2009. Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech…
Descriptors: Films, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Italian
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Kirsch, Claudine – Language Learning Journal, 2016
It has long been claimed that stories are a powerful tool for language learning. Storytelling is often used as a discrete pedagogical approach in primary modern foreign language (MFL) lessons in England. There has, however, been little investigation into how storytelling might impact on vocabulary learning in the primary classroom. This article…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning
Michea, Rene – Francais dans le Monde, 1974
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Modern Languages, Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rattunde, Eckahrd – Neueren Sprachen, 1971
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Modern Languages
Whiteley, Darryl – 1971
Criticism of traditional methods of foreign language vocabulary study points out the need for a well-organized and systematic approach to information retrieval. A dual method is proposed which involves a learning and retrieval unit. Detailed description of the two systems illustrates how the student may allot and use his revision time in the most…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Instructional Program Divisions, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
Baltimore City Public Schools, MD. – 1972
The general aim of this teacher's guide for the development of minicourses for French classes is to make students aware of the areas in which influence is exerted by French culture in American life. Outlines are provided for 10 units of classroom activities. They include: (1) introduction of French words used in the United States and perusal of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, French, Instructional Materials
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Carney, Helen K. – 1972
Central to this article is the belief that students learn best when permitted to exercise their imagination while studying foreign-language literary works. A teaching technique, demonstrating the author's approach to poetry and vocabulary expansion, emphasizes the active role students play in utilizing new vocabulary. Examples of how students may…
Descriptors: Imagination, Language Instruction, Literary Criticism, Modern Languages
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Munzer, Hans W.; And Others – 1972
This volume of the Defense Language Institute's "German Basic Course" is concerned primarily with the pronunciation of German and introduces the most common structural patterns. Vocabulary development includes some 575 new words. Fifteen lessons, intended for use in an intensive program, focus on development of basic audiolingual skills. Lessons…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Basic Skills, Cartoons, German
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Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
This course in Czech, consisting of 162 lessons in 19 volumes, is designed to train native English Speakers to a level 3 proficiency in comprehension and speaking and level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Czech. The texts are intended for classroom use in the Defense Language Institute's intensive programs employing the audiolingual…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Czech, Form Classes (Languages)
Kratky, Lada; Martinez, Ada – 1972
This programed workbook contains 46 exercises designed to aid the student in the mastery of basic syntactic and vocabulary elements presented in the Defense Language Institute's Spanish Basic Course (1966 edition). The lessons in the workbook correspond to five texts used in the course. As an appendix to the workbook, there is an index of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Tong, John S. – 1971
This study explores the effect of visual stimuli on second language vocabulary development. An experiment performed at Georgetown University postulates the hypothesis that concrete target words learned through translation and visual aids should offer better learning than the same words learned through translation alone. Findings are determined…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Experiments
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Klein, Wolfgang; Perdue, Clive – Second Language Research, 1997
Discusses the implications of the tendency of adult second-language learners to develop a well-structured, simple form of language outside the classroom, i.e. the Basic Variety (BV). Focuses on the structural properties of the BV, the status of these properties and the reasons why some structural properties of "fully fledged" languages are more…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Vocabulary, Grammar, Language Processing
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Salters, John; And Others – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Discusses problems inherent in the content of modern language syllabuses. True communication occurs when the focus of classroom activities is on the message. The success of the lesson derives from the quality of the presentation and, crucially, the vocabulary list and the pupils' prior knowledge of the concepts underlying the content. (six…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Course Descriptions, French
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