Main components of foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teacher

Excellence in the Foreign Language Classroom: Escapades of a junior high school French teacher

Abstract Teaching and learning of French as a foreign language in any Anglophone country such as Ghana is an extremely difficult task to undertake both on the part of the teacher and the student. This is evidenced in the general low performance of students in the subject at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) level in both public and private schools over the years. This case stud...

Excellence in the Foreign Language Classroom: Escapades of a junior high school French teacher

Abstract Teaching and learning of French as a foreign language in any Anglophone country such as Ghana is an extremely difficult task to undertake both on the part of the teacher and the student. This is evidenced in the general low performance of students in the subject at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) level in both public and private schools over the years. This case stud...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

1 On Knowing a Language : Communicative Competence , Proficiency , and the Standards for Foreign Language Learning

the impact of computer-assisted language learning on achievement motivation of high school students

چکیده انگیزه دلیل اصلی رفتارهای ما است. به نظر می رسد انگیزه جزء جدایی ناپذیر فرایند یادگیری باشد. ارزش ذاتی موفقیت تمایل به پیشرفت را در یادگیرنده ایجاد میکند. به عبارت ساده این تمایل انگیزه پیشرفت نامیده میشود. انگیزه پیشرفت را میتوان در احساس یادگیرنده هنگام چالش با درس های مدرسه، لذت انجام فعالیت درسی، یا حس کشف پاسخ مشاهده کرد.حتی ممکن است انگیزه پیشرفت را در تلاش یادگیرنده برای جلب تایید...