The author of this article recounts her childhood in India and assesses its impact on her attitudes as an English-as-a-Second Language educator. (Author/VWL)

Tested different views on the role of universal grammar in second-language learning by investigating the acquisition of the head-direction parameter by adult Korean learners of English. (Author/VWL)

Investigates the assumption that pseudowords repetition accuracy may be highly associated with vocabulary abilities. Subjects were junior high school students learning English as a second language. (Author/VWL)

Investigated college students' attitudes and preferences toward error correction in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classroom. A questionnaire was administered to 100 EFL students enrolled in spoken-English classes at a university.(Author/VWL)

Describes guidelines for writing teacher comments on English-as-a-Second-Language essays. The guidelines encourage teachers to comment between drafts, to offer students questions about their writing, and to include comments of praise and encouragement. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the role of the nonprofessional native-speaking teacher of English as a foreign language in a non-English-speaking country. Points out the pros and cons of hiring nonprofessional native speakers in the Brazilian context. (Author/VWL)

Outlines some of the problem areas described by researchers when designing a test of oral production for beginning-level speakers of English, and suggests ways in which these areas may be addressed. (Author/VWL)

Examines the importance in the instructed-learning setting of the second-language teacher's "knowledge about language" or metalinguistic awareness. Discusses three questions: (1) Do teachers need to know about language?; (2) if so, why and in what ways; and (3) what impact does the level of a teacher's metalinguistic awareness have on the input…

Discusses use of the mother tongue in bilingual content teaching as well as in conventional foreign-language classes. The controversy over mother tongue is examined by analyzing a history lesson taught in English as a foreign language. Suggests brief use of the mother tongue can function as a learning aid to enhance communicative competence in the…

Highlights how fables can be used in English-as-a-Foreign-Language classes. Fables offer the opportunity for learners to speak and teachers to reinforce the simple past versus the past continuous or the simple present versus the present continuous. Fables are also useful for teaching writing.(Author/VWL)

This study follows up on a study of the issue of second-language (L2) inner speech as it manifests in mental rehearsal among advanced L2 learners. The purpose of the study was to find out to what extent advanced L2 learners experience inner speech as mental rehearsal and to identify characteristics and functions of such inner speech. (Author/VWL)

Points out the military and linguistic necessity of including culture as part of language instruction. Maintains that addressing the cultural based Content Final Learning Objectives within the Defense Language Institute's Foreign Language Center classroom provides an invaluable, necessary foundation for enabling students to develop passion for the…

Provides a background to technology and authentic teaching of culture in foreign language instruction. Introduces each of the five articles in a special issue on technology and teaching where the authors focus on the importance of using different media and technology to facilitate culture learning. (AEF)

Examines Israeli Arab students' attitudes and cultural backgrounds in relation to their reading comprehension of Jewish and Arab stories. States Arab students' motivation toward learning Hebrew as a second language is instrumental. Finds students comprehend texts from their own culture (Arab) better than those from the unfamiliar culture…

Describes the Yazigi language center in Bradenton, Florida, and its role in teaching English-as-a-Second-Language to Brazilian students. At Yazigi, the communicative approach has proved very successful. Learning is further enhanced by students of different linguistic backgrounds studying together and compelling each other to communicate in the…