Describes an off-campus distributed language course in Indonesian and discusses the use of computer mediated communication in on-campus and off-campus courses. Argues that off-campus delivery language programs need to seek the linking of learners to a community of learners with whom they share common goals and to the broader native speaker…

Outlines a set of Web-based exercises for students preparing to study abroad that encourages them to develop a cultural context for the places that are about to visit and thus to maximize the educational benefit of their stay abroad. (Author/VWL)

Investigates two issues that are important to English for academic purposes: (1) the issue of collaboration between subject teachers and English for academic purposes teachers and the problem of reconciling what appear to be incommensurable discourses, and (2) the difference between task-based learning and problem-based learning. (VWL)

Investigates both speech and speaker perceptions through tape-recorded conversations between summer study abroad students and their French hosts, as well as through interviews and observations. Findings indicate that natives and nonnatives alike relied heavily on classroom roles and discourse structures to manage their interactions, calling into…

Proposes to measure sojourner's acculturation in terms of their social exchange networks, measuring second language success in terms of pronunciation. Provides strong evidence to support Schumann's (1978) acculturation theory. The acculturation experiences and second language pronunciation of 9 American women residing in Norway are described and…

Examines the text awareness of English-as-a-Second-Language learner writers through their organizational skills in an English for specific purposes context. Identifies the gaps in their understanding of organization and demonstrates how these gaps cripple the writer's approach to the text as a whole. Advocates an approach that encourages the…

Describes a model of inservice Spanish for native Speakers (SNS) teacher training called Heritage Language Teacher Corps offered through a collaboration between the university teachers in accordance with several f the necessary teacher competencies for teaching SNS outlined by the American Association of Speakers of Spanish and Portuguese. (VWL)

Examined Korean and Chinese college-level ESL learners for relative reliance on phonological and orthographic processing in English word identification. Found that Korean, but not Chinese, students made more false positive errors in judging stimuli that were homophones to category exemplars than in judging spelling controls. Chinese students made…

Examines two cross-cultural adaptability training tools used in multinational corporations and suggests strategies for integrating them into the foreign language classroom. Suggests students with a high degree of synthetic and analytic thinking skills as they relate to cross-cultural contexts-- tend to fill an important marketplace niche.…

Discusses the rationale for studying a second or foreign language, including increased contact with different cultures and the demand for bilingual workers in the global marketplace and in the government. (Author/VWL)

Describes a cross-cultural e-mail project implemented to provide a group of English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers in Taiwan with he opportunity to interact with bilingual/English-as-a-Second-Language pre-service teachers in the United States. Analyses of the e-mail entries revealed that the Taiwanese participants obtained from their U.S. partners…

Compared lexical and visual--orthographic processing in the spelling performance of 30 cantonese Chinese children who are English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners to that of 33 English as a first language (L1) children. Findings are discussed in terms of in terms of early transfer of L1 literacy skills to second language literacy acquisition…

Describes a reactive focus on form task that was part of a university English-as-a-Foreign-Language oral presentation course. Students in the study were encouraged to focus on their oral output by taping and transcribing a rehearsal of their presentation. Describes the effect of this treatment by comparing the language of the rehearsal transcript…

Explores the role and function of metaphor in the genre of the building review within architecture discourse and suggests ways in which research into its textual and communicative function might be useful to those involved in creating English for special purposes materials for students of architecture whose first language is not English.…

Examines language shift from majority African languages, such as Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu to English in South Africa. Examines the extent to which sociopolitical changes that have taken place in South Africa have impacted everyday linguistic interaction and have contributed to language shift from the indigenous African language to English,…