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2003 ADVANCED FOREIGN-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

 

Contents, acknowledgements, contributors

Introduction: Creating sites for collegiate advanced foreign language learning

Heidi Byrnes; Hiram H. Maxim

Articles

Literacy and advanced foreign language learning: Rethinking the curriculum

Richard G. Kern

Advanced level language learning has to do with much more than 'language' per se. It requires familiarization with new frames …

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A template for advanced learner tasks: Staging genre reading and cultural literacy through the précis

Janet Swaffar

This chapter illustrates how to use the précis as a template for pedagogical tasks that integrate comprehension and production practice …

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Fostering advanced L2 literacy: A genre-based, cognitive approach

Heidi Byrnes; Katherine A. Sprang

The paper argues for the need and opportunity to consider advanced second language abilities as part of the curricular and …

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Heritage language speakers and upper-division language instruction: Findings from a Spanish linguistic program

Daniel J. Villa

Teaching upper-division courses in Spanish linguistics presents a two-pronged dilemma: students entering the courses (1) have had little literacy education …

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Heritage speakers' potential for high-level language proficiency

Olga Kagan; Kathleen Dillon

tThe paper examines the conditions under which heritage students of Russian might achieve advanced or higher proficiency within an undergraduate …

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Study abroad for advanced foreign language majors: Optimal duration for developing complex structures

Casilde A. Isabelli

SLA research has explored the many benefits of study abroad programs. However, there is limited research that explores syntactic gains …

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"What's business got to do with it?" The unexplored potential of business language courses for advanced foreign language learning

Astrid Weigert

tAdvanced-level foreign language business courses have an as yet unexplored potential to contribute to advanced students' literacy and discourse development. …

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Fostering advanced-level language abilities in foreign language graduate programs: Applications of genre theory

Cori Crane; Olga Liamkina; Marianna Ryshina-Pankova

Findings from two surveys (Spring 2002) regarding the perceived needs of graduate students from US. Foreign language (FL) doctoral programs …

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Expanding visions for collegiate advanced foreign language learning

Hiram H. Maxim

This paper examines the prevailing departmental, professional, and research practices in collegiate foreign language (FL) learning and argues that, as …

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