This article examines grammar instruction produced on the fly by a teacher in response to students’ questions in a Dutch as foreign language classroom. Such sequences merit attention because they present teachers with the opportunity and the challenge to provide unplanned instruction …
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Multi-storied Lives: Global Simulation as an Approach to Developing Multiliteracies in an Intermediate French Course
Recent scholarship has proposed a pedagogy of multiliteracies to frame FL curricula and instruction, and encourage critical reflection about language use through a variety of discourses and textual genres. One pedagogical framework conducive to fostering learners’ intersemiotic awareness is Global Simulation (GS)…
Revisiting the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS): The Anxiety of Female English Language Learners in Saudi Arabia
With the increase in globalization, the study of English has become common in Saudi Arabia, but students’ experiences of foreign language anxiety (FLA) have been underexamined…
Film as Source Material in Advanced Foreign Language Classes
This paper suggests new ways filmic texts might be employed in advanced foreign language classes. Typically, film has been seen as source material for broadening students’ vocabulary or for developing communicative competence. This paper considers what a close reading of a filmic text …
The Perilous Legitimacy of the Foreign-born Spanish Instructor in the U.S.
This article discusses the perilous legitimacy and professional vulnerability of the foreign-born Spanish instructor in the U.S. …
In the Dutch Mountains
In this paper, the author shares some of the pedagogical ironies she has experienced while teaching Dutch on an American university campus.
Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: From Taiwan to the United States
Teaching Chinese as a second language in Taiwan vs. in the United States. How are they different? What are the challenges to teachers? This article will bring to you interesting findings from the perspective of a native speaking Chinese teacher…
The Importance of Bridging
In this article, I will discuss the importance of the fundamental aspect of “bridging” in the wider context of language teaching. I will use “bridging” particularly in terms of cultural differences and underline the pivotal role of specific techniques, in a language class as well as in a pedagogy class or seminar, to help finding common ground between groups of people with different backgrounds…