Student Teachers' Attitudes and Beliefs About Using the Target Language in...

Foreign Language Annals;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......has long emphasized the use of the target language in the classroom, student teachers...efforts to conduct class in their target language. This case study focused on 10 student...attitudes and beliefs about using the target language, (2) the extent to which they felt...

target language

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      15 words ...target language. That which one aims to teach, learn, translate into, etc. Opp. source language.

Instructors' Use of English in the Modern Language Classroom

Foreign Language Annals;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......teaching as much as possible in the target language, but when university faculty were...and negotiation of meaning in the target language. Lee and VanPatten (2003) describe...source of comprehensible input in the target language. For gains in target language ...

Formal and Informal Experiential Realms in German as a Foreign Language: A...

Foreign Language Annals;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......features; (b) formal and informal target language experience both correlate to fluency...experience-consistent, interactive target language contact across multiple domains-as...than is quantity, or mere duration of target language exposure. Key words: adult learners...

Gains to Language Learners from Viewing Target Language Closed-Captioned...

Foreign Language Annals;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......students' understanding of films in the target language, many instructors turn to films with...required to follow what they hear in the target language. Current DVD technology offers another...language films closed-captioned in the target language, which provides visual ...

Irish schools forced to teach English despite big outcry.(FRONT PAGE)

Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  July 27, 2007 ;     246 words ......English from the start of the second term of junior infants. The minister plans to introduce the change...were asked to teach English from September in junior infants or in junior infants at all that it might be damaging. But she...

Letter: Language teaching.(Letters)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 11, 2008 ;     195 words ......often taught through the medium of the target language being learnt. The purpose of teaching...while the purpose of employing a target language in teaching can only be to enable...study, will be able to listen to the target language being used as fluently, accurately...

Letter: Language lessons.(Letters)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 12, 2008 ;     214 words ......is often through the medium of the target language being learned. The purpose of teaching...while the purpose of employing a target language in teaching can only be to enable...study, will be able to listen to the target language being used as fluently, accurately...

Tampon terror tot.(News)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  February 13, 2005 ;     130 words ......outer case of a stained tampon. The tot had found it in the junior infants toilets at Tinryland National school. Now Ann, fearing her...eaten her lunch after handling it. Luckily Carol Ann, a junior infants pupil, seems fine, but she will need a follow-up check in...

Gaelscoil outrage over new language ruling by Hanafin.(NEWS)

Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  May 14, 2007 ;     275 words ......of English no later than the start of the second term of Junior Infants. But her action has sparked outrage at the Irish National...cannot be delayed beyond the end of the first term of junior infants. While the Minister, a former Irish teacher, is a fervent...

More on Caption Use: A Response to Stewart and Pertusa/Responding to...

Foreign Language Annals;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the value of captions in enhancing target language vocabulary recognition. Their research...teacher could certainly begin with target language captions. Stewart and Pertusa also...one can rightly assume that their target language reading ability was generally more...

Headmaster Leo will be remembered by so many.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  February 20, 2007 ;     241 words ......early 1960s and in 1964 he became headmaster of Maesycwmmer Junior Infants, a position he held for many years. Mr Howells eventually became headmaster of Cefn Fforest Junior Infants School. He was popular with both pupils and staff right up...

LIAM'S IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN.(News)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  November 9, 2003 ;     212 words ......in the class. The five-year-old is the only child in the junior infants class in Coolick school, Kilcummin, near Killarney. A shortage...actually. He's not at all put out at being the only one in junior infants. Evan has been coming to school for two months now and he...

Schools to end their Catholic-first policy.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 24, 2008 ;     562 words ......that includequotas for non-Catholic children starting with junior infants. The move comes four months after a school in north Co...schools run by the archdiocese. The new admissions system for junior infants is being introduced in two primaryschools in the Porterstown...

President meets her match.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  April 25, 1998 ;     178 words ......confusion for Mrs McAleese's young pupils as she explained. I teach Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class and it caused a lot of confusion for the Junior Infants. Being small, they thought there was only one Mary McAleese so they...