You just arrived in another country and want to study the language. There are a number of schools which promise that they will teach you to speak fluently. While telling you they will teach you to speak they will actually teach you to read, to write, and to memorize grammar rules, but they will fail to retrain your tongue so that you can speak their language.
Effective Language Learning: Positive Strategies for Advanced Level Language Learning
This text looks at some of the learning processes of students of French and German as they begin language learning at an advanced level. By focusing on the learning strategies different students employ to overcome any difficulties they experience at this transitional stage, the author seeks to illustrate how all learners at this level can become more effective in their language learning.
Cultural Studies and Language Learning: A Research Report
This is an account of a major research project which studies the contribution of foreign language teaching to learners' perceptions of and attitudes towards the people and way of life whose language they are learning. Teaching and learning in the secondary school were investigated by qualitative and quantitative methods over a 3-year period. The analysis models the many intra- and extra-school influences and sources of information and relationship of language teaching to other factors in learners' environment. By comparing these cases with an ideal model of language and culture teaching, the book points the way towards modification and improvement of existing practices.
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Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning
This book suggests solutions to the problem of inaccuracy that results from emphasizing fluency. The establishment of an interlanguage is preventable, the restoration of balance depending on a better understanding of proficiency and of the roles of cross-linguistic influence, systematic instruction, and the "deep" correction of errors. The author's call is for more applicable theories of language.
