The crisis in FL teaching in American colleges: towards a diagnosis and a remedy  

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Nakuma, Constancio

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Culture and Curriculum (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 3 (1995), page 281-290.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LCC/8 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The paper assesses the effect of a partially implemented programme of communicative language teaching on foreign language acquisition in the United States of America. It describes a situation of genera Ii sed frustration, on the part of both FL teachers and students across foreign language departments in colleges and universities, at the difficulty that students are experiencing in making the transition to the senior-level component of the language programme. Calling this difficult transition the Post-Intermediate Void, the author attributes it to an unacknowledged dual system, consisting of communicative teaching at beginner and intermediate levels, followed by grammar-and-translation pedagogy at post-intermediate and undergraduate level. He suggests that the institutions affected can remedy the problem by requiring that their FL maj:Jrs spend their third year in college on a minimum one-year immersion programme in countries where their target languages are spoken.

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