Designed to offer training in foreign language pedagogy to teaching assistants (TAs) in the foreign language departments.
Second language acquisition findings are crucial for informing and advancing the field of Arabic foreign language pedagogy including Arabic language teaching, testing, and syllabus design.
Interests: Sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language contact, language variation and change, Romance linguistics, quantitative methods (statistics, variable rule analyses for sociolinguistics, and computer software for statistics), sociohistorical linguistics, sociophonetics, bilingualism, Catalan, Spanish, dialectal diversification, foreign language pedagogy.
After several years teaching German at Binghamton University, Rankin spent a year at the University of Hawaii-Manoa doing postdoctoral work in second-language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy.
A shift in foreign language pedagogy from a specific foreign language method to one of measurement of language performance/competency has resulted in a change in the role of the teacher from one of authority/expert to one who guides learning tasks in a classroom environment designed to meet the cognitive and affective needs of the learner.
At the time of her appointment, Rivers had already established herself as an international authority on language learning and teaching, having taken her field beyond the behaviorist methodology of the 1960s and offered in its stead a new psycholinguistic approach to foreign language pedagogy.
His view of foreign language education is informed by a wide range of theories and approaches, which includes sociocultural theory, discourse analysis and critical pedagogy.
In EFL/ESL, appropriate pedagogies and theoretical research paradigms have been established and accepted in diverse contexts, and are often referred to as guidelines for other foreign language teaching and research.
In the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy environment, how to increase speaking competence and confidence for undergraduate students tends to be a crucial question among instructors.
Françoise Charnay-Sonnek has studied foreign languages, nursing, pedagogy and management.
The emergence of social software tools in recent years, such as blogs and Wikis, has provided new opportunities in supporting an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) digital literacy pedagogy.
