Defence of Foreign Language Teaching in Secondary Schools

1974 ◽  
Vol 25-26 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
F.J.A. Van Passel
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching

De Behoeften aan Moderne Vreemde Talen en Differentiatie in Doelstellingen Voor Vreemde-Talenonderwijs

1977 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Maria Oud-de Glas
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
The University

At the Institute for Applied Sociology of the University of Nijmegen, an investigation into foreign language needs of several groups in Dutch society has been carried out in 1975 through 1977. Questionnaires were submitted to these different groups, e.g. to former pupils of secondary schools. The questionnaire consisted mainly of a list of 24 descriptions of situations in which foreign languages are used. In these descriptions the significant features of language situations are systematically varied. For each situa-tion we asked if and how frequently it occurs and if the knowledge of the languages learnt is sufficient for this kind of situation. The results of the investigation show large differences in language needs (defined as actual use of the foreign language and shortcomings in the knowledge of that language in certain situations) both between the former pupils of the different types of secondary schools as well as between the languages most commonly taught in Dutch schools, French, German and English. More specifically it was found that the actual use of foreign languages occurs more frequently among former pupils of certain vocational schools (especially technical schools) than among former pupils of general secondary schools. French appears to be used less frequently than German and English. English is used by a somewhat larger group than German, but this does not hold for all groups. Former pupils of technical schools use German as much as English. The resulting data can be used to choose objectives for foreign language teaching. There is however no simple and direct way from language needs to objectives. In choosing objectives on the basis of findings on language needs, one will have to decide which measure of language needs is taken into account and how this measure (or these measures) is (are) used. If we decide for example to take the size of the group that has actually used a foreign language in one of the situations as a criterion for the choice of that situation as a part of the objectives of language teaching, we will then have to decide where we draw the line between situations that are and situations that are not important enough to be chosen. In other words, we have to decide how large the group of language users must be. It is evident that there is no shorter way from language needs to objectives than a carefully argued choice of measures and of the use of these measures.

On the Digital Hybrid Publishing Model of English Reference Books for Primary and Secondary Schools—A Case Study of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Chenluzi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Way

<p>English reference books occupy a large proportion in the basic educational books market, and the innovative publishing model is worth exploring. Another valuable question is the way to apply digital hybrid publishing—a new publishing model—in English reference books. In this article, the above problems are analyzed by taking the digital teaching reference products of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press as examples.</p>

scholarly journals Creativity in Foreign Language Teaching

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Ivana Cimermanová
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
University Education

The author deals with a topic quite often discussed by not only pedagogy and psychology. Creativity is present everywhere and the author suggests it should be a part of University education preparing pre-service teachers. Even though there are researches proving that creativity can be learnt and developed (to certain extent) it is still missing at our schools. Students and pupils still claim that they are asked to memorize the facts rather than to discuss their own opinions and perception.The study briefly presents part of the data gained in the research focused on using creativity at elementary and secondary schools. The interview with 22 teachers was done in 2 sessions (10 and 12 teachers to manage to administer the responses).

scholarly journals The Communicative Orientation of English Language Teaching Classrooms in Moroccan Secondary Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Abderrahim El Karfa
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Approach

The present paper addresses the issue of theory and practice in the implementation of the communicative approach in the context of English as a foreign language teaching in Morocco. It set to evaluate the communicative orientation of English language teaching classrooms in Moroccan secondary schools. This evaluation incorporates the investigation of the constraints imposed on teaching English for communicative purposes in this context. The results reveal the dominance of non-communicatively oriented practices and classrooms over their communicatively oriented counterparts. However, the dominance of communicative features in forty-one of the classes observed (34.16%) is relatively high given the current state of communicative language teaching in Morocco and the constraints that were found to impede its implementation in this context. These constraints are related essentially to the foreign language context, the formal nature of the classroom environment, the traditional nature of students&rsquo; personality traits and their conceptions of classroom participation and role-relationships, the nature of assessment procedures, lack of adequate and varied teaching materials and equipment, and the large size of classes. These findings suggest that English language teaching in Moroccan secondary schools has undergone important changes from the dominance of traditional and teacher-centred classrooms towards more communicative language teaching. They would also imply that the implementation of the communicative approach in foreign language contexts is not impossible, but rather feasible. To this end, this article presents some suggestions to enhance communicatively oriented attitudes and practices in English as a foreign language teaching classrooms in Morocco.

scholarly journals Experience in testing song materials translated from Russian to English in teaching a foreign language at school at the primary and secondary stages of education

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-246
Author(s):  
Valeriy Voronin
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Russian Composers

The development of methods of foreign language teaching using song materials is one of the most pressing problems of foreign language teaching in modern practice. The purpose of this article is to describe the experience of using song materials of Russian composers and poets translated into English in the practice of foreign language teaching in primary and secondary schools. The research objectives are to identify and experimentally describe the translated song materials and test the author's methodology for its use. The aim of the study is also to find out peculiarities of psychological and emotional features of the perception of educational material by students via personal perception of song lyrics. Methods of theoretical analysis and comparison, as well as conducting an experiment to test the author's methods of foreign language teaching, which allow to solve the tasks and achieve the goals of the study, has been used. As a result of the research, new data were obtained on the use of song materials in foreign language teaching. Also, a teaching methodology, based on the principle of combining structural, pragmatic, cultural, prosodic and communicative aspects of teaching a foreign language, was formed.

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