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Direct linkWesely, Pamela M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This interpretive multiple case study examines the motivation to learn a second language among sixth grade students who attended a French immersion school for grades K-5. Parent surveys, student surveys based on Gardner's Attitude/Motivation Test Battery, and individual and group interviews with students were the data sources used to identify…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Surveys, Early Adolescents, Learning Motivation
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
Dominguez, Rocio; Pessoa, Silvia – Foreign Language Annals, 2005
This study compares 27 sixth grade students who have been learning Spanish since kindergarten with 5 who have had Spanish for only 1 year using a battery of Spanish oral and written tests. The students who started early out performed the new students in listening, speaking, and writing Spanish. Those who started early also displayed a positive…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Spanish, Speech Skills, Writing Skills
