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Research on the Integrated Performance Assessment in an Early Foreign Language Learning Program
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Davin, Kristin; Troyan, Francis J.; Donato, Richard; Hellman, Ashley – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This article reports on the implementation of the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in an Early Foreign Language Learning program. The goal of this research was to examine the performance of grade 4 and 5 students of Spanish on the IPA. Performance across the three communicative tasks is described and modifications to IPA procedures based on…
Descriptors: FLES, Second Language Programs, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests
Content-Based Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Discourse Perspective
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Pessoa, Silvia; Hendry, Heather; Donato, Richard; Tucker, G. Richard; Lee, Hyewon – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
Although a substantial amount of professional literature argues for the potential benefits of content-based instruction, limited research exists on how this type of instruction actually is appropriated, understood, and carried out in practice by foreign language teachers. This study examines the role of two sixth grade Spanish teachers' discursive…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Language Teachers
Literary Discussions and Advanced Speaking Functions: Researching the (Dis)Connection
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Donato, Richard; Brooks, Frank B. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This study investigated the discourse of class discussion in the advanced undergraduate Spanish literature course. Motivating this study was the need for research to determine how discussion in advanced undergraduate literature courses provides discourse opportunities to students to develop advanced language functions, as defined in the ACTFL…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Spanish Literature, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Converging Evidence: Attitudes, Achievements, and Instruction in the Later Years of FLES.
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Donato, Richard; Tucker, G. Richard; Wudthayagorn, Jirada; Igarashi, Kanae – Foreign Language Annals, 2000
Examined the sixth year of a Japanese foreign language in the elementary school (FLES) program. Provides results from attitude surveys of children, teachers, and administrators; data on parental support for their children's learning of Japanese; proficiency ratings on an end-of-year prochievement interview; comparison of ratings of the cohort of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, FLES, Interviews, Japanese
When Are They Going to Say "It" Right? Understanding Learner Talk During Pair-Work Activity.
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Brooks, Frank B.; McGlone, J. Victor; Donato, Richard – Foreign Language Annals, 1997
Using sociocultural theory as a conceptual framework, this study examined selected features of student discourse of three pairs of third-semester learners of Spanish at the university level. Specifically the study investigated how these selected features, identified in an earlier research project, developed during opportunities to engage in five…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
A Multiple Perspectives Analysis of a Japanese FLES Program.
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Donato, Richard; And Others – Foreign Language Annals, 1994
This paper describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of the first year of a three-year pilot project to teach Japanese to all students in grades K through five at a Pittsburgh elementary school. Findings from this multiple perspectives analysis are reviewed. (41 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, FLES, Japanese, Program Development
Stories and Stances: Cross-Cultural Encounters with African Folktales.
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West, Michael J.; Donato, Richard – Foreign Language Annals, 1995
Describes an initiative to incorporate folktales and legends from francophone West Africa into a college-level advanced French literary and cultural studies course. Students recorded their reactions to various texts taken from France and West Africa in reading journals. Analysis of the journals shows that critical competencies in Western culture…
Descriptors: African Culture, Course Objectives, Cultural Awareness, Folk Culture