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Mady, Callie – Babel, 2011
This study compares the willingness to communicate (WTC) of Canadian Anglophone and Francophone students to measures of their self-assessed, multiskilled second language proficiency and strategy use before and after a short-term intracountry bilingual exchange experience. The central question is whether a student's WTC exists before an opportunity…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Language Skills, Language Proficiency
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Venning, Wendy – Babel, 2002
Compares Queensland teachers' conceptions of communicative language teaching with those held by 11 Japanese junior high school teachers of English, interviewed in 1997 as part of a s part study on the development of language teaching in Japan. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Correction
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Stubbs, Eva – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1990
Discusses the regional differences within the German language and the influence these differences might have on the learning of English. The study further investigates phonological and lexical similarities between German dialects and English. (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dictionaries, English (Second Language), German
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Das, Bikram K. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1991
Examines some programs of adult education that are available to members of the Singapore workforce with particular reference to the learning of English. The paper also reports on a survey of two educational programs offered to working adults in Singapore in which English has come to occupy a central position. (GLR)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education