Attempts to stimulate debate on bilingual teaching within the context of secondary education in Great Britain. Questions whether the British educational establishment can provide teachers who are capable of carrying out bilingual teaching. (32 references) (CK)

Discusses the validity of a rating scale created by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for the purpose of measuring the oral language proficiency of bilingual professionals who are speakers of English and Spanish. Notes that this scale measures various levels of competence and features of an individual's speech. (14…

Examines attempts of the foreign language teaching profession to implement reforms, focusing on the "Standards for Foreign Language Learning" (1996). (48 references) (Author/CK)

Draws on existing research to clarify several diversity and equity issues relevant to language minority elementary students. Explores the relationships between language development and the cognitive skills necessary for school success, school-home communication, and instructional approaches that support language learning. (GR)

Quantitative analysis of 1,083 first language and second language academic texts establishes that advanced nonnative-English-speaking students in U.S. universities employ excessively simple syntactic and lexical constructions at median frequency rates significantly higher than those found in basic texts by native English speakers. (Author/VWL)

Describes a University of Ottawa program involving a French-language stream to train future physicians for the francophone minority population of Ontario. Francophone students conduct interviews in French in a communication skills laboratory while being observed by clinicians trained in observation and feedback techniques. Simulated patients play…

Highlights a diary study implemented with English language teaching (ELT) students during their practicum. Aimed to obtain feedback on the preservice ELT courses and the practicum by understanding students' attitudes toward various aspects of teaching. Also aimed to give students an opportunity for self exploration and reflection on professional…

Investigated distance students' participation in an online discussion group established for an applied linguistic course titled Computer Assisted language Learning. Discusses patterns of student-student interaction and students' attitudes toward online discussions as a way of earning CALL as well as toward computer mediated communication as a…

Discusses the paradox involved in constructing a language policy: language is invoked as a reified object associated with essentialist constructs of identity to stand for much more complex and changing patterns of language use. Considers this paradox from the perspective of a campaign led by Sikh parents to have Punjabi introduced into curriculum…

Reports on a community-based teacher education project in which preservice English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers developed language curricula for a Latino community in the United States. Shows how many of the issues that characterize language in development work in poor countries also affect ESL instruction in the United States and other…

Examines how students in a second language classroom deploy linguistic and cultural resources to both resist and appropriate aspects of the teachers' voices. A key episode is analyzed to show the nuances of students' ventriloquation of diverse voices to construct a complex social order and shifting strategic identities. (Author/VWL)

Reports on the development of a self-rating instrument for writing. The instrument engages learners in responding to a writing task and assessing their own proficiency against a set of benchmarks. Provides a description of the self-rating procedure, an account of instrument development, a report on a usability study with six learners of Finnish as…

Advanced-level college students of Spanish experienced U.S. Hispanic cultures through participation in a community-based experiential course with a service earning option. Results of a quantitative study indicate that subjects enrolled in the course formed positive and accepting attitudes toward Spanish speakers and their cultures and found a…

Looks at new information technologies and highlights how Japanese students use of the World Wide Web often lacks an appreciation of the quality differences that exist between traditional and net-sourced research. Argues academic writing courses need to address this issue and calls for "a more critical mindset" among those using the Web…

Presents strategies used in the International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island for incorporating technical German in first year classes. Outlines the language functions that can be developed in this way, gives concrete examples of the materials used, and provides specific suggestions for coordinating these materials with a…