{"title":"Making connections: football, the internet and reluctant language learners","authors":"T. Lamb, James Fisher","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200241","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes a project carried out by PGCE students in an urban school. The project explored the potential of the World Cup and the internet for motivating reluctant language learners. By building on pupils' interests, it was hoped that they would ‘connect’ more with language learning. Reflections on the project offer insights into ways of encouraging greater motivation.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"32-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59549678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivation in an ab initio German classroom","authors":"S. Hotho","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200251","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the initial findings of a pilot study of L2 motivation against the background of current research in that field, with the aim of developing a more differentiated perspective on L2 motivation.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"37-44"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59549720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primary modern foreign language teaching: a picture of one county","authors":"J. Naysmith","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200211","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to create a ‘rich picture’ of primary MFL provision in one county: which languages are currently being offered, by whom and what the attitudes towards primary MFL are. It highlights the current challenges we face and underlines the need for a ‘radical solution’ if primary MFL for all is to become a reality.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"15-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59550106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting as a teaching tool","authors":"J. S. Munro","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200191","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the practice of liaison interpreting is a generally useful classroom tool, since it appears to create conditions favourable to the development of communicative competence. It is suggested that interpreting has a particular role to play in the development of three components of communicative competence: lexico-grammatical, sociolinguistic and discourse. It is argued that the advantages of interpreting as a teaching tool extend also to ‘intralingual interpreting’, rewording in the foreign language. A detailed description is given of the practice of liaison interpreting with advanced learners, and suggestions are made for adapting the technique to learners at other levels.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"3-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59550055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother-tongue education among Bangladeshi children in Swansea: an exploration","authors":"N. Khan, M. Kabir","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200221","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws on the authors' personal experience of teaching mother-tongue (Bengali) to the Bangladeshi children in Swansea in an extra-curricular class organised by the Bangladeshi community. It provides an inside view of the classroom; the problems and practice of Bengali teaching therein; and an insight into the perspectives and attitudes of the students, teachers and parents towards mother-tongue education. Of late, these issues have been of major interest in the field of mother-tongue teaching in Britain.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59550115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From bad to worse? Pupils' attitudes to modern foreign languages at ages 14 and 15","authors":"A. Stables, F. Wikeley","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200231","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), school students in the West of England were asked about their perceptions of the importance of modern foreign languages and about their reasons for liking and disllking them, particularly as this bore on the process of subject option choices. The results are compared with those of a similar project in the mid-1980s. Unfortunately, the students were at least as negative in their attitudes overall as in the earlier study, despite more recent changes in curricula and teaching approaches. Specific aspects of the results and their implications are discussed with reference to possible strategies to facilitate improvement.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"27-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59549666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language learner perceptions of strategy use in secondary schools","authors":"Wasyl Cajkler, Barbara Thornton","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200261","url":null,"abstract":"As part of an Action Research project, a group of teachers in Italy, Spain and UK focussed on interaction in their own classrooms. Their investigations were informed by a survey of pupil perceptions and by videotaping of their own lessons. This article reflects on the investigation undertaken in relation to learner strategies in a range of secondary schools in Majorca (8), Italy (20) and the UK (19). The investigation was conducted as part of a Socrates/Lingua European Co-operation Project linking the three areas.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"45-50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200261","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59549733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intercultural competence for foreign languages students in higher education","authors":"Terry Mughan","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200281","url":null,"abstract":"Statistics on the employment of UK languages graduates indicate a low amount of geographical mobility at a time when the European labour market is becoming ever more competitive. Current foreign language (FL) course design in higher education (HE) is questioned for its lack of focus on understanding people of other cultures. It is therefore argued that foreign language degree courses rapidly need to adopt an appoach to intercultural learning which prepares students to move with more ease amongst numerous cultures and which is less bound, cognitively, by the notion of the nation-state. Intercultural research which is relevant to UK languages courses in HE has already been undertaken and a summary of some relevant findings is provided. The question of language/content integration which preoccupies most foreign language course design is considered not to be critical to the development of modular, intercultural foreign language studies which will enhance the employability and mobility of languages graduates. ...","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"59-65"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59549865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ab initio vs. A level students of German: how does their performance compare?","authors":"U. Baumann","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200201","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares the performance of students starting German ab initio with the performance of students who had completed A level in German on the BA Modern Languages degree at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Eleven years' worth of results were analysed to discover whether there is any significant difference in performance between the two groups in the final examination.","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"8-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59550067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The language learning activities of students of EFL and French at two universities","authors":"M. Freeman","doi":"10.1080/09571739985200151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09571739985200151","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the results of a survey of the time spent on language learning activities of EFL and French at two British universities. It attempts to answer the questions: 1.How do students spend their time when language learning? 2.What do they spend most time on? 3.To what extent do these study habits vary with proficiency level and target language? 4.What are the study implications of these study patterns for language teaching? A group of 118 students of French and EFL at the universities of X and Y completed a questionaire during the period March to May 1995. This questionaire collected data on the periods of time students spent on language learning and on student proficiency levels, using self-report instruments. This data was triangulated with similar data collected from 23 interviewees and six case study students. Students of French spent most time on classwork and homework, whereas the EFL students spent most time chatting to nonnative speakers and listening to the radio. All students spen...","PeriodicalId":46554,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning Journal","volume":"85 1","pages":"80-88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09571739985200151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59550045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}