FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION.
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In elementary & middle school. Need for, benefits, techniques, team approach, curriculum, testing, teacher evaluation.
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Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to address the need for and importance of teaching foreign language to elementary level and middle school children. The paper emphasizes the use of team teaching methods as a particularly effective approach to foreign language learning.
Several specific instructional team teaching approaches are described and delineated. Further, the paper addresses some of the requirements and needs associated with the use of team teaching for foreign language learning at the elementary and middle school level.
Foreign Language Learning at the Elementary and Middle School
There are several reasons to offer foreign language learning to elementary and middle level students; this because foreign
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as aparticularly effective approach to foreign elementary and middle school level Foreign Language Learning at theopportunity to learn another language but several additional benefits culture is an especially importantgoal of multicultural instruction is one that combines the use of boththe student's the use ofa team teaching approach The approach developed and culture In the program implemented by Stones all language activities using Stones approach attention must be paid toproviding a easy whiledeveloping activities to emphasize evaluation An effort wasmade to focus verypopular with students' parents Moreover evaluative data indicated feelings of identification for the French cultureas well as program developed by the Upper nine weeks each of French studies science English andmathematics were team-taught In addition every day the class included a were enthusiastic and sixth-graders showedeagerness to graduation Language and content-area staffcontinuity was maintained and the levels is because it can be used to and Myer have stated thata logical approach program for foreign language learning generalizing or creating abstract categories Inthe beinglearned by the students and to minimal objectives for language proficiency been associated with the team teaching approach Specifically that in every case the schoolor school district program features that characterized one principals and elementary school foreign languageteachers were interviewed Also factors very good foreign language programs tend high-interest games and activities as partof instructional efforts As noted investigated the problem of determining foreign language learning in particular it can be easily seenfrom was composed of two language an individual and a team planning period whereas non-team A random cluster sampling procedurewas used to determine composition of the Student Attitude Measurewere used to Group interaction in the areas of school scored significantly higher than the teamtaught group fromthe significant interactions Therefore a test of the maineffect due remaining areas Based on findings it was concluded that the learning Requirements Needs For Using The Team assistants Fleak and Hansen report that in order recommend that an intensive preserviceworkshop be developed addition the school needs to develop methods need to be evaluated not only forteaching assistant performance they are accomplishing what educators desire them language programs by the teacher supervisor and based on specific criteria Criteria may includeteacher-produced tests provided to the teachers On the other hand the school studentattrition and teacher-student ratio The quality of records discussion and analysis andsummarization findings recommendations Summary This newlanguage learning about another culture parents the various needs or requirements of foreign and implementation of evaluative criteria for of Foreign Languages th St Louis MO Ernest K F Supervision In B T Fryer and F W Medley on the Teaching of Foreign A p Sherer V E Biemel J S Foreign Languages ED Stones V A Hands On Elementary Foreign Language Program to elementary level and middle schoolchildren The paper emphasizes of the requirements andneeds associated with middle level students this because foreign languagelearning offers middle and can help studentsunderstand others' culture What makes this the proper instructional format Stones states thata particularly effective instructional use of worksheets andthe development of teaching approach involves two-thirds of instructionaltime being devoted to language a point system Vocabulary was learnedthrough games with active participation is important that all planned activities must incorporate graded notebook for reference and oral tests of focusing on the culture of the languagebeing good success was found forlinking all events to at themiddle school level can be seen the inclusion of a middle school program for aseventh-grade foreign spent in a reading course not taughtby the foreign limited to high-frequency expressions grammar limited to basic concepts and student couldexperience some success Student evaluations of identical to the high schoolcourses enabling the students to begin Another reason why foreign language learning improvement instudents' abstract thinking abilities With andcross-cultural understanding In this regard the primary goal According to Benya and Myer concept development thenative language leading the children through a discovery process of concepts long-term goals for concepts Further it is noted by Benya in a richer overall program McCullough states that if you appear to be a part of almostevery good In order to gather information meeting Findings of the study indicated often use parents as part use the teamteaching approach Relevant to this fact organization in promoting student achievement and positiveattitudes toward The interdisciplinary team organization used and science Team teachers taught five students in three middle schools within the a needed accelerated or basic usedto identify statistically significant differences consistent across schools The team-taught group studies vocabulary mathematics science and the team-taught group in socialstudies Thus this studysupports the use of the team teaching by Fleak and Hansen most of teaching assistants in classroom methods and materials to provide assistants with an noted that classroom observation by aprogram coordinator for them Only in this way can neededfor foreign language learning Regarding this need Lee hasdiscussed the teacheris largely a self-evaluation process to instruction as well as periodic selfevaluation i field of foreignlanguage teaching Areas to be covered these evaluations all evaluators may employ the followingmethods and said to beassociated with providing foreign language programs to programs provided theproper instructional format is used In ofteaching assistants to facilitate the F L A G Paper presented at the annualCentral International A p Fleak K a Foreign Language Program in UrbanCommunity Paper presented study of one South Carolina policy and professionalism in foreign language Introduction The purpose of this paper is language learning Several specific instructional team the Elementary and Middle School There are Onesuch benefit according to Stones is that if offered in which is one of the primary philosophicaland curricular foundations first language and the use of the language discussed by Stones is based on herexperiences in teaching wereconducted in French while cultural variety of competitive collaborative sitting running individual partner particular grammatical points wassomewhat more difficult In on material and learning that bridged the curriculum methodsto those thatstudents systematically learned about significant events in increasing their understanding of it An example of Arlington Ohio SchoolDistrict The authors state German and Spanish and related the languages to content and the teachers related their individualdisciplines to the target language game or other funactivities with participate in the course when they reached the seventh grade administration was supportive both ofwhich contributed to increasing facilitate the learning ofconcepts and constructs to foreign language teaching at the is the ForeignLanguage Arts in the Grades or foreign language learning context the teacher other concepts being developed in othersubject areas Curriculum planning in and conceptdevelopment utilization of resources the authors report that a team effort between the contained foreign language curriculum at the elementaryschool of the best elementary levelforeign language programs in classes were observed as was a teacherworkshop to be team taught to incorporatea good in the foregoing research foreign language whether aninterdisciplinary team teaching organization inspection of its research objectives that artsteachers and one teacher from each teacherstaught six periods and were scheduled for one planning period the experimental team-taught group andthe traditionally-taught control group although measure academic achievement and attitudes reading language skills and workstudy skills second school in all three areas to group was appropriate Findings interdisciplinary teamorganization is as effective as the traditional organization in Teaching Approach To Foreign Language Learning at Elementary and for assistants to workeffectively with teachers to acquaint teaching assistants with the mechanics oflesson planning and strategies forthe effective evaluation of teaching assistant performance in but also in terms of whether toaccomplish Thus an evaluative method and school district county or other agency standard language proficiency tests and studentquestionnaire responses According to Lee district or county education office may forman audit team textbooks instructional aids standard tests paper examined research related to the need for feel positive about suchprograms and language learningprograms These requirements were programassessment References Benya R A Myer B L Foreign Effectiveness of an interdisciplinary teamteaching organization on student achievement eds Perspectives andHorizons Dimension Languages Report of Souther Languages New York NY November McCullough in the MiddleSchool Exploration Enrollment Excellence In ERIC Document Reproduction Service No ED the use of team teaching methods the use of team teaching for foreign languagelearning at the elementary school level students not only benefit especially importantis the fact that learning about another method for teaching a foreignlanguage to elementary level students student projects Adding to effectiveness is learning and one-third of instructional timebeing devoted to earning students extra points In planning games speech Stones found that creating games was relatively using materialsused in class were observed to be useful for learned was that the culture-course content was found to be activities associated with American culture therebyproviding students with in Sherer and Biemel's discussion ofthe foreign language language exploration course The course provided language teachers Four academic areas social culture being a significant portionof the content the course were found tobe very positive Also parents serious study immediately and studylanguages continuously until is important at thelower grade respect to the foregoing Benya authors claim that aparticularly effective can be roughlydefined as the process of Thisinquiry discovery process relates both to the language structures andlanguage proficiency relationships of concepts to children's world development of and Myer that maximal programsuccess has examine those schools consideredexemplary by the educational system you find school or school district McCullough elected to examinethe for the study state officials district administrators that in addition to other of the teameffort and to use a variety of is a study conducted by Ernest who school for middle school students Although the study didnot examine in this study involvedteams of five teachers Each team periods each school day and were scheduledfor samedistrict participated in the study class wasoffered The Iowa Test of Basic Skills and Findings of the studyrevealed a significant School x from one school and the control group from asecond student attitudes toward school there were no There were no significant differences in the approach so often utilized in foreignlanguage commonly involves the use of one or more teaching used inforeign language classes Fleak and Hansen overview of course materials In or other faculty can be useful Foreign language learning programs a school or schooldistrict be sure that the evaluation of urban foreign reexamine the course objectives andstudent achievement e whether sufficient guidelines and materials were by the audit team would includepolicy regulations directives scheduling cost-effectiveness instruments opinion surveys interviews direct observations review of elementary andmiddle level school children These benefits included learning a addition to a discussion of program benefits the paper alsoexamined use of a team approach and thedevelopment States Conference on the Teaching Hansen C New Approach toward Foreign LanguageTA at the Annual Convention of the AmericanCouncil School District Dissertation Abstracts International education Florida Central State Conference ERIC Document Reproduction Service No to address the need for and importanceof teaching foreign language teaching approaches are describedand delineated Further the paper addresses some several reasons to offer foreign language learning toelementary and a properinstructional format foreign language learning of the contemporary American educational system Regarding he she is learningwith learning activities centering around games the French to mixed-ability fourth and fifth-graders Specifically the content was presented in English Student learning was assessed using and group opportunities in each lesson She statesthat it Stone's program students recorded all newmaterial in a used in later grades One of the added benefits French andmedieval history from Roman Gaul to and the many benefits of teaching foreign language that in the district reorganized and onecurricular addition was areas using an interdisciplinaryapproach The fourth nine weeks were and culture The course emphasized oralcommunication with vocabulary course content being easy enough that every The eighth-grade language courses were enrollments and overall program success In other words it can foster elementary level isone that integrates foreign language learning concept development FLAG program This program was designedwith concept development as a helps thisgeneralization process through carefully constructed questions in FLAG involves decisions in seven areas Theseareas include selection and materials evaluation techniques and sequencing and articulation classroom teacher andforeign language teacher can result level Given that these programs a selected South Carolina school district Further McCullough attended a district Foreign Language TaskForce deal of cultural learning to programsprovided at the elementary and middle school level often was as effective as atraditional it relates to team taughtforeign language classes of the disciplines of mathematics social studies Team-taughtclasses averaged five students more than traditionally-taught classes Seventh-grade some students werereassigned to the group in which respectively Analyses of covariance using pretest scores as covariates were indicating that the effect of theteam organization was not In the areas of social indicated that the controlgroup scored significantly higher than promotingachievement and positive attitudes toward school Middle School Use of the team teaching approach as noted there is a need for both the supervision andtraining instruction and evaluation The workshop should also beused the class Regarding this evaluation it is they aremeeting the goals set materials are part of what is First Lee notes that evaluation of the program by the supervisor's evaluation may be based onobservation of with several professional members in the andclassroom instruction would also be investigated Lee states thatconcerning foreign languagelearning at the elementary school level Several benefits were the fact that students like these said to include inservice training Language Arts in theGrades A Conceptual Approach and student attitudes towardschool in selected middle schools Dissertation Abstracts Conference onLanguage Teaching Lee K B Evaluation of S H Transforming the elementary school foreignlanguage program A case D W Birckbichler ed Proficiency as aparticularly effective approach to foreign elementary and middle school level Foreign Language Learning at theopportunity to learn another language but several additional benefits culture is an especially importantgoal of multicultural instruction is one that combines the use of boththe student's the use ofa team teaching approach The approach developed and culture In the program implemented by Stones all language activities using Stones approach attention must be paid toproviding a easy whiledeveloping activities to emphasize evaluation An effort wasmade to focus verypopular with students' parents Moreover evaluative data indicated feelings of identification for the French cultureas well as program developed by the Upper nine weeks each of French studies science English andmathematics were team-taught In addition every day the class included a were enthusiastic and sixth-graders showedeagerness to graduation Language and content-area staffcontinuity was maintained and the levels is because it can be used to and Myer have stated thata logical approach program for foreign language learning generalizing or creating abstract categories Inthe beinglearned by the students and to minimal objectives for language proficiency been associated with the team teaching approach Specifically that in every case the schoolor school district program features that characterized one principals and elementary school foreign languageteachers were interviewed Also factors very good foreign language programs tend high-interest games and activities as partof instructional efforts As noted investigated the problem of determining foreign language learning in particular it can be easily seenfrom was composed of two language an individual and a team planning period whereas non-team A random cluster sampling procedurewas used to determine composition of the Student Attitude Measurewere used to Group interaction in the areas of school scored significantly higher than the teamtaught group fromthe significant interactions Therefore a test of the maineffect due remaining areas Based on findings it was concluded that the learning Requirements Needs For Using The Team assistants Fleak and Hansen report that in order recommend that an intensive preserviceworkshop be developed addition the school needs to develop methods need to be evaluated not only forteaching assistant performance they are accomplishing what educators desire them language programs by the teacher supervisor and based on specific criteria Criteria may includeteacher-produced tests provided to the teachers On the other hand the school studentattrition and teacher-student ratio The quality of records discussion and analysis andsummarization findings recommendations Summary This newlanguage learning about another culture parents the various needs or requirements of foreign and implementation of evaluative criteria for of Foreign Languages th St Louis MO Ernest K F Supervision In B T Fryer and F W Medley on the Teaching of Foreign A p Sherer V E Biemel J S Foreign Languages ED Stones V A Hands On Elementary Foreign Language Program to elementary level and middle schoolchildren The paper emphasizes of the requirements andneeds associated with middle level students this because foreign languagelearning offers middle and can help studentsunderstand others' culture What makes this the proper instructional format Stones states thata particularly effective instructional use of worksheets andthe development of teaching approach involves two-thirds of instructionaltime being devoted to language a point system Vocabulary was learnedthrough games with active participation is important that all planned activities must incorporate graded notebook for reference and oral tests of focusing on the culture of the languagebeing good success was found forlinking all events to at themiddle school level can be seen the inclusion of a middle school program for aseventh-grade foreign spent in a reading course not taughtby the foreign limited to high-frequency expressions grammar limited to basic concepts and student couldexperience some success Student evaluations of identical to the high schoolcourses enabling the students to begin Another reason why foreign language learning improvement instudents' abstract thinking abilities With andcross-cultural understanding In this regard the primary goal According to Benya and Myer concept development thenative language leading the children through a discovery process of concepts long-term goals for concepts Further it is noted by Benya in a richer overall program McCullough states that if you appear to be a part of almostevery good In order to gather information meeting Findings of the study indicated often use parents as part use the teamteaching approach Relevant to this fact organization in promoting student achievement and positiveattitudes toward The interdisciplinary team organization used and science Team teachers taught five students in three middle schools within the a needed accelerated or basic usedto identify statistically significant differences consistent across schools The team-taught group studies vocabulary mathematics science and the team-taught group in socialstudies Thus this studysupports the use of the team teaching by Fleak and Hansen most of teaching assistants in classroom methods and materials to provide assistants with an noted that classroom observation by aprogram coordinator for them Only in this way can neededfor foreign language learning Regarding this need Lee hasdiscussed the teacheris largely a self-evaluation process to instruction as well as periodic selfevaluation i field of foreignlanguage teaching Areas to be covered these evaluations all evaluators may employ the followingmethods and said to beassociated with providing foreign language programs to programs provided theproper instructional format is used In ofteaching assistants to facilitate the F L A G Paper presented at the annualCentral International A p Fleak K a Foreign Language Program in UrbanCommunity Paper presented study of one South Carolina policy and professionalism in foreign language
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