scholarly journals Slovenian Primary School Foreign Language Teachers: An Insight into the Teaching of a Foreign Language at an Early Age According to CLIL

Author(s):  
Tilen Smajla
Author(s):  
Violeta Jurkovič ◽  
Vita Kilar ◽  
Nives Lenassi ◽  
Darja Mertelj

Today's online world provides foreign language users and learners with a multitude of opportunities to engage in a variety of language activities. A social group that can derive major benefits from the availability of online resources in different languages is foreign language teachers. Based on an ‘emic' approach, this study involves case studies of three experienced foreign language teachers that used diaries over a period of eight weeks to report on every instance of online use of their predominant foreign language and English. Semi-structured interviews were used to obtain insight into online behaviour that was not specifically related to the eight-week period of diary-keeping. The results indicate that the online uses of the three participants, although they belong to the same social and age groups, display great variety in terms of online activities and the predominant language used to perform these activities.


2000 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Carla Driessen ◽  
Jacques Haenen ◽  
Gerard Westhoff

First, this article focuses on a model for the analysis, evaluation and revision of foreign language learning tasks that has recendy been developed. A description is given of the function, form and content of the model and examples are provided. Second, the article explains how the usability of the model for foreign language teachers will be investigated in terms of its accessibility and its relevance. The research methods proposed are mainly qualitative in nature. The research questions that will be answered are: 1. Can foreign language teachers work with the model in order to analyse, evaluate and revise foreign language learning tasks? 2. Do foreign language teachers evaluate positively the accessibility of the model? 3. Do foreign language teachers gain insight into the factors that influence the effective-ness of foreign language learning tasks? 4. Does the model make foreign language teachers critical of foreign language learning tasks?


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