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Menard-Warwick, Julia – Modern Language Journal, 2009
Based on qualitative research conducted in 3 university English as a foreign language classrooms in Chile and 3 community college English as a second language classrooms in California, this article examines the approaches used in teaching culture in these classrooms, the differences in how particular cultures (usually national cultures) were…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Classroom Communication, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Bernaus, Merce; Gardner, Robert C. – Modern Language Journal, 2008
This study investigated language teaching strategies, as reported by teachers and students, and the effects of these strategies on students' motivation and English achievement. The participants consisted of 31 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and their students (N = 694) in Catalonia, Spain. The teachers and students rated the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Objective Tests, Teacher Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Platt, Elizabeth; Troudi, Salah – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Views the experiences of a limited-English-speaking Liberian child of limited educational background in relation to her teacher's beliefs about language, acculturation, natural cognitive processes, and cooperative learning. Argues that in the case of linguistic minority children in mainstream classrooms, powerful ideas viewed from a sociocultural…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Cooperative Learning
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Green, John M. – Modern Language Journal, 1993
A study investigated the effectiveness of communicative and noncommunicative class activities for English second-language instruction in relation to student perceptions of the degree to which those activities were enjoyable. Results indicate a positive correlation between enjoyableness and perceived effectiveness but do not show a causal…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis