Second language acquisition through reading, comprehensible input, limited grammar and cultural study: a handbook for the secondary language teacher.
Document Type
Graduate Project
Date of Award
2005
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
First Advisor
Dr. Don Woodcock
Abstract
Second language practitioners share the goal that their students reach communicative competence in the target language. Recent research findings regarding learning, however, have spawned a debate that has driven teachers to rethink the efficacy of the traditional practice of direct instruction of language usuage. The Standards for Foreign Language Learning, as well as research that examines second language acquisition, support content-based instructional strategies that employ sustained language use, cultural infusion, and contextual grammar instruction in a constructivist classroom. This project reviews that research, then synthesizes and applies the findings of the research through the development of units that implement strategies that include storytelling, reading, scenarios, music, art, and video.
Recommended Citation
Nicolai, Judith A. Willis, "Second language acquisition through reading, comprehensible input, limited grammar and cultural study: a handbook for the secondary language teacher." (2005). Master of Education Graduate Projects. 199.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/edproj/199
Comments
File available in Archives of Brooks Library at CWU