Graduate Project Title
Document Type
Graduate Project
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 2005
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
Committee Chair
Don B. Woodcock
Second Committee Member
Steven A. Schmitz
Third Committee Member
Bobby Jean Cummings
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 usage. 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
Willis-Nicolai, Judith A., "Second Language Acquisition through Reading, Comprehensible Input, Limited Grammar, and Cultural Study: A Handbook for the Secondary Language Teacher" (2005). All Graduate Projects. 880.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/graduate_projects/880
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons, Secondary Education Commons