The Effects of Bilingualism and Motivation on Foreign Language Development

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah R. Sellevaag ◽  
Erica Kleinknecht ◽  
Heide Island
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language

What we have to explain in foreign language learning

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bley-Vroman
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Development Theory

AbstractWhile child language development theory must explain invariant “success,” foreign language learning theory must explain variation and lack of success. The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH) outlines such a theory. Epstein et al. ignore the explanatory burden, mischaracterize the FDH, and underestimate the resources of human cognition. The field of second language acquisition is not divided into camps by views on “access” to UG.

The Creation of a Rubric for the Evaluation of Language Teaching and Learning Videogames

2019 ◽  
pp. 313-341
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Agar ◽  
Philip J. Chappell
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Sociocultural Model ◽  
The Creation

This chapter reports on the creation and evaluation of the Language Education Videogame Evaluation Rubric (LEVER) which, it is hoped, will be of benefit to those involved in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Based upon a sociocultural model of language development, this research is unique in the manner in which it draws on up-to-date best practice in the domains of both language pedagogy and videogame design. This chapter will then report on the application of the LEVER to two titles which have been created to teach a foreign language, in order to both to test the games for quality and the rubric itself for rigour and ease-of-use.

Strategies to Transform the Foreign Language Classroom and Increase Learning Outcomes with the Flipped Model

2015 ◽  
pp. 60-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Granados-Bezi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Language Classroom

The scaffolds of American colleges and universities can no longer protect our institutions from the winds of change that penetrate their walls and appear to be threatening their foundations. They also seem incapable of protecting faculties from persistent criticism due to unsatisfactory performance and reluctance to modify educational approaches to meet society's current demands. This chapter reviews some of the most common concerns pertaining not only to the quality of higher education in general but also to that of foreign language teaching in particular. It analyzes the reasons that there is a general sense of dissatisfaction with the results of traditional practices to language learning and discusses the benefits of implementing the flipped model to enhance the quality of instruction. In addition, it underlines the importance of adopting innovative technologies to increase language development in a world in which instructors are expected to be more productive and students have to reach higher learning outcomes.

Creating a Micro-Immersion Environment Through Telecollaboration

2016 ◽  
pp. 144-169
Author(s):  
Tasha N. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Immersion Experience

This chapter offers an innovative approach for implementing telecollaborative activities in order to enable students to connect with peers in real-time, with the goal of creating a micro-immersion experience called a “Virtual Language Exchange”. This chapter describes and compares two intermediate Spanish classes participating in Virtual Language Exchanges via Skype: one paired with peers from the target language and culture, and one paired with peers from within the class itself. Students from both groups participate in meaningful interactions in the target language in order to complete the assigned task-based activities. The chapter argues that finding new ways to bring the target language to life by using technology, like the Virtual Language Exchange experience described here, can benefit students' foreign language development in multiple ways.

Kommunikation und "Kommunikation" im Schulischen Fremdsprachen -Unterricht

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-149
Author(s):  
Henning Bolte
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Response Formats ◽  
Teaching Learning

The article deals with the relationship between verbal communication as a teaching objective and as a medium of teaching/learning. This relationship is of special interest for foreign language teaching/ learning aiming at ccmnunicative competence in spoken language. The article enters into the question in which ways teaching/learning ob-jects are constituted in the course of ongoing interaction, how acti-vities with regard to such objects are stimulated and steered, and what kinds of activities are defined by the participants themselves as LEARNING or count for them as such. Psycholinguistic input-(in-take) output models are being argued against, because classroom learning is not simply characterized by ready-made prestructured in-put and predetermined output, but both have first to be constituted through some strategic form of social interaction. Two examples of foreign language learning in the classroom are pre-sented: first of an EFL lesson, where the distortion of target langu-age function potential is demonstrated and the "staged" production of language prof iciency within a pedagogic interaction pattern is shown; and second of a German FL lesson, where a grammatical item is focussed and exercised. The sequence is an example of rigorous reali-zation of the I(nitiation)-R(esponse)-E(valuation) pattern as the ba-sic pattern of sequential organization in the classroom. It clearly shows how LEARNING is defined/executed as standardized response for-mats and "conditioned" chains of I-R-pairs. Many of the performed linguistic deviations(of the target language)seem due to interaction mechanisms rather than to general principles of language development. Conversational analysis of teaching-learning discourse shows that learning is not merely to be considered as a direct conventionalized consequence of ( initiating ) teaching ( acts ). On the one hand the inter-action pattern is merely a framework wherein "inner" mental processes are evoked and organized, which can manifest themselves in various forms. On the other hand there is a strong tendency for the teacher to control the entire learning process and to make expected outcomes collectively significant and thus for the learner a tendency mainly to adjust to prefabricated response formats, which at the same time serve as evidence for didactically intended cognitions. Hence, the stronger the predetermination and imposing of LEARNING by the teach-er, the more learning tends to become a mere guessing game and pure-ly mechanical. The restrictions of traditional classrooms are obvious from these examples: restrictions with regard to the experience of functional potential of the target language and with regard to the embedding of focussed learning-items into a functional perspective. These re-strictions have to be changed in order to enable learners to parti-cipate in problem-constitution, to bring in own perceptions of con-cepts/problems and to bring in own problem-solving strategies as systematic parts of language development and as systematic parts of official classroom discourse, i.e. as objects of active mutual indication and interpretation. Conversational analysis can be an important tool for the study of such "alternative" structuring of classroom interaction and its con-tribution to a more learner-centered and functionally oriented (foreign)language LEARNING.

On the Integration of Language and Content Instruction

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 227-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Spanos
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Training Evaluation ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The 1980s were dynamic years for applied linguistic researchers and practitioners involved in the integration of language and content instruction. In addition to the publication of five stimulating texts devoted to the subject (Mohan 1986, Cantoni-Harvey 1987, Crandall 1987, Enright and McCloskey 1988, and Brinton, Snow, and Wesche 1989), there was increasing attention at all school levels to curriculum development, materials development, teacher training, evaluation, and assessment, Second and foreign language educators as well educators in the fields of mathematics, science, and social science have become cognizant of the relationship between language development and the acquisition of content-specific knowledge and skills.

scholarly journals فعالية نموذج تخمين الكلمة لنتائج تعليم اللغة العربية من فصل المتوسط مجلس تنمية اللغة الاجنبية بمنطقة دار اللغة

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bisrikhwan ◽  
Iis Mulaili
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Word Type ◽  
Cooperative Model ◽  
Development Institute ◽  
Academic Year

This research is motivated by the conditions of learning Arabic in Darul Lughoh Dormitory Foreign Language Development Institute, where student learning outcomes are still not optimal. Researchers try to solve these problems through the use of a cooperative model of guessing the word type to improve learning outcomes in Arabic for students. The formulation of the problems in this study are (1) How to apply the cooperative model of guessing words in Arabic subjects, the subject of the mufrodat subject of hobbies to improve Arabic learning outcomes for students in the Mutawassith class, the Institute for Foreign Language Development, Darul Lughoh Dormitory, Pondok Pesantren Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi in 2018 / 2019? (2) How to improve student learning outcomes through the use of the cooperative type guessing model in Arabic for students in the mutawassith class of the Foreign Language Development Institute of Darul Lughoh Boarding School, Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi Islamic Boarding School, 2018/2019 Academic Year. The results of the research on the application of the cooperative type guessing model in Arabic after going through the initial, core and final activity steps showed an increase in the learning outcomes of students in the Mutawassith class Foreign Language Development Institute Darul Lughoh boarding school Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi Academic Year 2018/2019 . Data from the first cycle shows the average value of student learning outcomes as a whole is 80 with a percentage of 63.63% completeness. Whereas in cycle II the average student learning outcomes became 90 with overall student learning completeness was 86.36%.

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