http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:37:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Why should I learn bahasa?" and "Is learning Indonesian really worth it?" are only a few of the questions we hear from non-Indonesian speaking people who live in Indonesia. They happen to stay in Indonesia for some reasons, either it is because they have been hired to work in one ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/indonesia-language-practice-questions.html Conclusions and Implications It can be deduced from this study that some levels of foreign language anxiety are experienced by beginning students in' response to some aspects of foreign language learning. The study further suggests that anxiety experienced in foreign language learning (Spanish in this case) does not necessarily decline or ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/foreign-language-of-university-students-part-3.html Methodology The Setting and Subjects This study was designed to identify and compare the perceptions of first and second-semester university students towards feelings of anxiety experienced during foreign language learning as measured by the FLCAS scale. Specifically, the objective of this study was to investigate and compare the perceptions of 114 students ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/foreign-language-of-university-students-part-2.html Researchers have studied the effects of anxiety on foreign language learning since the 1970's. In spite of substantial advances in teaching methods and techniques, apprehension continues to exist in the university foreign language classroom. This study investigates the perceived levels of anxiety experienced by a randomly-selected sample of beginning foreign ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/foreign-language-of-university-students-part-1.html At age 14, Rola entered ninth grade in high school. She mastered the English language in six months, completed ninth grade and tested out of 10th, 11th and half of 12th grade. She attributes her academic achievement to her public school experience in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon. In ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/second-language-study-in-elementary-schools.html TEXT: WHAT IS AN EXPLORATORY LANGUAGE COURSE? Within the foreign language field, the term "exploratory" refers to self-contained, nonsequential, interdisciplinary courses designed to introduce students to a variety of languages and cultures. Such courses differ from lengthy courses designed to teach a specific language (though exploratory courses use specific languages for ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/foreign-language-courses-in-the-middle-or-junior-high-school.html In June 1999, the British Dyslexia Association (BDA), in cooperation with IDA and the European Dyslexia Association, held a conference on bilingualism, multilingualism, and dyslexia, including the study of modern foreign languages. For the first time educators from around the world gathered together to examine thorny questions about the effects ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/reading-and-foreign-language-learning.html "Parlez-vous francais?" When you went to high school, you had an option of whether or not you wanted to learn a foreign language, but today, as more children are being raised bilingual or multilingual (able to speak more than two languages), you must be wondering, "Should my children learn another ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/teaching-your-children-another-language.html The students in this study identified multiple factors in their struggles and triumphs in changing countries. They could describe their cultural experiences in both places as well as their attempts to cope with differences in schooling and living in general. A wide range of domains impacted the students' acculturation successes: ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/learning-second-language-part-3.html Initially, more than 30 immigrant students at a local high school were asked to participate in the project. The ESL program director assisted as each student received a home permission form. Some were translated into Spanish or Indonesian. Eight males and seven females returned the permission slip. Both researchers were ... http://onlinelanguagecourses.onlineschools.name/learning-second-language-part-2.html