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ERIC Number: EJ385672
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Foreign-Language Instruction Is Being Revitalized as Faculty Members Stress "Doing" over "Knowing."
Watkins, Beverly T.
Chronicle of Higher Education, v35 n24 pA1,14-15 Feb 22 1989
More foreign-language professors are stressing speaking rather than grammar in their courses. They are encouraging their students to talk as much as 90 percent of the time. At the heart of the new approach is the concept of "proficiency"--what the student can do with the language. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Conversational Language Courses, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Verbal Ability
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Langs; Defense Language Institute; Foreign Service Institute DC