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The NFLRC has an over 30 year track history of publications. Over this period publications have taken the traditional print form, digital and online, software, journals and open educational resources (OERs). Browse our latest resources or explore the extensive collection of publications using the filtering tool below.

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Classroom Activities for Blended Learning in Beginning Chinese

Classroom Activities for Blended Learning in Beginning Chinese

This publication, CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FOR BLENDED LEARNING IN BEGINNING CHINESE, focuses on in-class activities for beginning ...

Second Language Research & Practice

Second Language Research & Practice

Introducing our new journal! Grounded in the discipline of Applied Linguistics, the SLRP journal aims to disseminate scholarship on ...

Language Documentation & Conservation

Language Documentation & Conservation

Fieldwork methods and ethical issues are only two of the many topics covered in Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), ...

Guidelines for submissions to the NFLRC Monographs & Pragmatics series

Guidelines for submissions to the NFLRC Monographs & Pragmatics series

We invite submissions of materials for publication as NFLRC Monographs. Monographs discuss ongoing curriculum projects, report on the ...

Identifying and responding to evaluation needs in college foreign language programs

Identifying and responding to evaluation needs in college foreign language programs

Our goal is to build the capacity of college foreign language educators to engage with a variety of evaluation, assessment, and ...

NFLRC 2017 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intensive Summer Institute: Pathways to PBLL

NFLRC 2017 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intensive Summer Institute: Pathways to PBLL

This document reports on, and evaluates the NFLRC 2017 Intensive Summer Institute more...

NFLRC 2015 Intensive Summer Institute: Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action

NFLRC 2015 Intensive Summer Institute: Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action

This document reports on, and evaluates the NFLRC 2015 Intensive Summer Institute more...

LRC Brochure

LRC Brochure

This brochure highlights work of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers.

4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) evaluation report

4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) evaluation report

This document reports on, and evaluates the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) held at the ...

2014 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes evaluation report

2014 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes evaluation report

This document reports on, and evaluates the 2014 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes held at the University of ...

Proceedings 2013: Selected papers from the seventeenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2013: Selected papers from the seventeenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual conference for students in the UHM College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature.

2013 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes evaluation report

2013 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes evaluation report

This document reports on, and evaluates NFLRC 2013 Summer Institute:“Language for Specific Purposes” at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa...

Ideal Classmates and Reciprocal Idealizing

Ideal Classmates and Reciprocal Idealizing

Tim Murphey describes an easy action research/activity done in the spring of 2012 with 488 students in four Tokyo area Japanese ...

Noticing and second language acquisition: Studies in honor of Richard Schmidt

Noticing and second language acquisition: Studies in honor of Richard Schmidt

Celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of ...

The 7th International Conference & Workshops on Technology & Chinese Language Teaching: Conference Proceedings 2012

The 7th International Conference & Workshops on Technology & Chinese Language Teaching: Conference Proceedings 2012

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference & Workshops onTechnology & Chinese Language Teaching, held at the University of Hawai...

Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)

Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)

Using group dynamics as an umbrella term for overlapping literatures on community, cooperative, and collaborative practices, I introduce ...

Proceedings 2012: Selected papers from the sixteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2012: Selected papers from the sixteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the College of Language...

Proceedings 2011: Selected papers from the fifteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2011: Selected papers from the fifteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the fifteenth annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the Universit...

Language Resource Centers bringing worlds together (LRC joint brochure 2011)

Overview of the fifteen Language Resource Centers nationwide (for the 2010–2014 grant period)...

Using surveys for understanding and improving foreign language programs

Using surveys for understanding and improving foreign language programs

The goal of this guide is to help language educators develop surveys that produce useful information for evaluation in language programs....

The role of consciousness in second language learning

The role of consciousness in second language learning

Richard Schmidt presents on the role of consciousness in second language learning at the 1988 SLRF Forum held in at the University of ...

Inviting altruistic agency among students

Inviting altruistic agency among students

Agency is normally understood as the capacity to act, to have a degree of self-determination and control over one’s self and the ...

Agency and student voice

Agency and student voice

In this video, Dr. Murphey explains how listening to what students say works and doesn't work in their own second-language education can ...

2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of Chinese Evaluation

2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of Chinese Evaluation

Evaluation of the 2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of Chinese held at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, from June ...

Manchu: A textbook for reading documents (second edition)

Manchu: A textbook for reading documents (second edition)

“...a welcome event in the field of Manchu studies.” --Journal of the American Oriental Society 130.4 (2010)View the table ...

2009 NFLRC summer institute: Web-based two-week intensive language course for non-native teachers of Japanese evaluation report.

This document reports on, and evaluates the 2009 NFLRC summer institute: Web-based two-week intensive language course for non-native teac...

Proceedings 2010: Selected papers from the fourteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2010: Selected papers from the fourteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi

Research among learners of Chinese as a foreign language

Research among learners of Chinese as a foreign language

Cutting-edge in its approach and international in its authorship, this fourth monograph in a series sponsored by the Chinese Language ...

Young learner development with co-learning adults

Young learner development with co-learning adults

If we just depend on occasional lessons in schools, we are not realizing the potential of our everyday learning environments for allowing...

Proceedings 2009: Selected papers from the thirteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2009: Selected papers from the thirteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

Toward useful program evaluation in college foreign language education

Toward useful program evaluation in college foreign language education

Innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. An introductory chapter scopes out the ...

Hoping and language learning

Hoping and language learning

To what degree do our methods provide productive pathways and confidence to aid our language learners? During this sixth annual presentat...

Proceedings 2008: Selected papers from the twelfth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2008: Selected papers from the twelfth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

Evaluation of the Language Learning Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Evaluation of the Language Learning Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Chinese as a heritage language: Fostering rooted world citizenry

Chinese as a heritage language: Fostering rooted world citizenry

Thirty-two scholars examine the socio-cultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese ...

Developing useful evaluation practices in college foreign langauge programs: Showcase session

This booklet summarizes three immediate outcomes of the authoring group’s work during the Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in Colle...

2007 Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching: Conference evaluation report

2007 Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching: Conference evaluation report

Evaluation of the 2007 Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching conference.

Evaluation of the NFLRC summer institute 2007: Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs

Evaluation of the NFLRC summer institute 2007: Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs

Evaluation of the NFLRC summer institute 2007: Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs

Proceedings 2007: Selected papers from the eleventh college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2007: Selected papers from the eleventh college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

Proceedings 2006: Selected papers from the tenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2006: Selected papers from the tenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

Usability test report for the National Foreign Language Resource Center Website

Usability test report for the NFLRC website update completed in December 2005. Includes description of the methodology plus results obtained.

Foreign language program evaluation: An annotated bibliography of resources for foreign language educators

The project's mission is to enable useful evaluation in support of foreign language programs. This is the annotated bibliography ...

Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers

Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers

This edited collection of fourteen articles examines connected speech is of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials ...

Reanalysis of discernment from a social constructivist perspective: Academic consultation sessions in Japanese universities

From the social constructivist perspective, this paper examines speech style shifts in academic consultation sessions between professors ...

Manual for the Vietnamese elicited imitation test (manual plus 2 audio CDs)

Manual for the Vietnamese elicited imitation test (manual plus 2 audio CDs)

Elicited imitation can be a reliable and valid measure of general competence, while also possibly serving as an instrument for ...

Proceedings 2005: Selected papers from the ninth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2005: Selected papers from the ninth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

2005 NFLRC workshop: Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests

Final report on the 2005 NFLRC workshop, Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests. During this two-week workshop participant...

2004 selected papers from the NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning and Language Instruction

2004 selected papers from the NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning and Language Instruction

These eight papers were presented at the Distance Education, Distributed Learning, and Language Instruction Symposium held July 27-30, 2...

Las voces de las mujeres de Xelajú

Las voces de las mujeres de Xelajú

Listen to the authentic voices of twenty ordinary Guatemalan women as you watch these interviewees share their unique views regarding ...

Song and music in language learning

Song and music in language learning

Tim demonstrates ways in which music and song can facilitate language acquisition, healthy living, and positive group dynamics...

Juggling with language learning theories

Juggling with language learning theories

Learning to juggle has become popular among corporate training programs as it shows participants how to appreciate mistakes and use ...

2004 NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the field

2004 NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the field

Final report on the 2004 Symposium, Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field

2004 NFLRC conference evaluation: FAGASA

2004 NFLRC conference evaluation: FAGASA

Full title: Final report on the 2004 13th annual conference of the Association for the Teaching of the Samoan Language in Aotearoa (FAGA...

Proceedings 2003: Selected papers from the seventh college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2003: Selected papers from the seventh college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

Proceedings 2004: Selected papers from the eighth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2004: Selected papers from the eighth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the eighth annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the ...

2004 NFLRC conference: Cultural Diversity & Language Education

2004 NFLRC conference: Cultural Diversity & Language Education

Final report on the 2004 NFLRC Cultural Diversity & Language Education Conference co-sponsored by the University of Hawai`i Center for Se...

Listenership in Japanese: An examination of overlapping listener response

Listenership in Japanese: An examination of overlapping listener response

This study focuses on a particular listening pattern in Japanese which occurs by overlapping with the current speaker's incrementing utte...

Online Chinese for minority-serving institutions

Online Chinese for minority-serving institutions

This video reports on an experimental two-year introductory course sequence in Mandarin Chinese is being developed and taught to ...

Proceedings 2001: Selected papers from the fifth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2001: Selected papers from the fifth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

2003 NFLRC summer institute: Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching

2003 NFLRC summer institute: Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching

Evaluation of the 2003 NFLRC summer institute, Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching.

Proceedings 2002: Selected papers from the sixth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Proceedings 2002: Selected papers from the sixth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

NPRM – Near Peer Role Modeling

NPRM – Near Peer Role Modeling

Here's a sample. For more, visit our Tim Murphey Tips playlist."Near peer role models" are people near to us in possibly several ways, ...

Group dynamics in the language classroom

Group dynamics in the language classroom

Here's a sample. For more, visit our Tim Murphey Tips playlist.Group dynamics is one of the most, if not the most, important areas for...

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Samoan pedagogy institute

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Samoan pedagogy institute

Evaluation of the 2002 NFLRC Summer Institute, Ia Faalautele Lau Gagana Samoan Pedagogy Institute.

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Heritage learners and national language needs

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Heritage learners and national language needs

Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Heritage Learners and National Language Needs.

Proceedings 1999: Selected papers from the third college-wide conference for students languages, linguistics and literatures

Proceedings 1999: Selected papers from the third college-wide conference for students languages, linguistics and literatures

Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

An investigation of second language task-based performance assessments

An investigation of second language task-based performance assessments

volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation. After briefly reviewing the ...

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced reading & writing development & maintenance

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced reading & writing development & maintenance

Evaluation of the 2002 NFLRC Summer Institute, Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance .

New technologies and language learning: Cases in the less commonly taught languages (ONLINE VERSION)

In recent years, the National Security Education Program (NSEP) has supported an increasing number of programs for teaching languages usi...

Proceedings 2000: Selected papers from the fourth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literature

Proceedings 2000: Selected papers from the fourth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literature

Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...

New technologies and language learning: Cases in the less commonly taught languages

New technologies and language learning: Cases in the less commonly taught languages

Seven chapters describe how different types of technologies (e.g., Web, ITV, and audio- or video-based materials) are used to support ...

KÀN NA! Authentic Chinese reading & video (PC only)

A variety of authentic sources, including a newspaper report of a hijacking, a family letter to Chinese students in the US...

HANGUL-RO BOJA! Authentic Korean reading & video

A variety of authentic sources, including notes found on the family refrigerator, traditional folk tales, modern poetry...

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Developing web-based foreign language learning environments

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Developing web-based foreign language learning environments

Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Developing Web-Based Foreign Language Learning Environments.

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced reading & writing development & maintenance

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced reading & writing development & maintenance

Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance.

A focus on language test development: Expanding the language proficiency construct across a variety of tests

A focus on language test development: Expanding the language proficiency construct across a variety of tests

This volume presents eight research studies which introduce a variety of novel, non-traditional forms of second and foreign language ...

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Korean pedagogy workshop: Task-based language teaching

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Korean pedagogy workshop: Task-based language teaching

Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Korean Pedagogy Workshop: Task-Based Language Teaching.

Mind, language, and epistemology: Toward a language socialization paradigm for SLA

Mind, language, and epistemology: Toward a language socialization paradigm for SLA

Karen Watson-Gegeo’s plenary talk lays out the issues involved and argues for a language socialization paradigm for second language ...

Voices and visions in global perspective: Selected papers from the second college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

Voices and visions in global perspective: Selected papers from the second college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

Developing Korean language performance assessments

Developing Korean language performance assessments

This Research Note reports on a task-based performance assessment development project for Korean as a foreign language through the Nation...

2000 Summer Institute evaluation: Computer-based tests for less commonly taught languages

Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Computer-Based Tests for Less Commonly Taught Languages .

2000 Summer Institute evaluation: Performance-based Chinese language instruction

2000 Summer Institute evaluation: Performance-based Chinese language instruction

Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Performance-Based Chinese Language Instruction.

Motivation, reported strategy use, and preferences for activities in foreign language classes at the UHM: Reliability and validity of instruments

NFLRC carried out a series of large scale data collection at undergraduate level foreign language classrooms in the university. The ...

Languages 2000 at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

This publication gives an overview of language departments, programs, and resources at the University of Hawai‘i. print booklet, free...

Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development

Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development

An increasing body of research examines the development of L2 learners' pragmatic ability. While some earlier longitudinal studies ...

Japanese placement tests at the University of Hawai‘i: Applying item response theory

Japanese placement tests at the University of Hawai‘i: Applying item response theory

First-rate placement procedures are important for effective teaching and learning in any language program because they help create classe...

Studies on Korean in community schools

Studies on Korean in community schools

The papers in this volume focus on language teaching and learning in Korean community schools. Drawing on innovative experimental work an...

Shadowing and summarizing

Shadowing and summarizing

Shadowing and summarizing are deceptively simple tasks that can greatly enhance learning. This video shows an actual class going through ...

Explicit instruction and JFL learners’ use of interactional discourse markers in extended tellings

Study of the explicit instruction of Japanese discourse markers to English-speaking, intermediate learners of Japanese as a Foreign ...

Japanese language needs analysis 1998-1999

The results of the first stage of an on-going curriculum development project aimed at creating performance based tests for the first ...

Explicit and incidental instruction and learner awareness

Explicit and incidental instruction and learner awareness

Explicit instruction can facilitate learner awareness of the surface features of a language, but does not guarantee it. Similarly, learne...

Integration of national standards in a Japanese language classroom

Integration of national standards in a Japanese language classroom

This 20-minute video plus guidebook familiarizes pre-service and in-service teachers of Japanese with the "five C" goals of the Japanese ...

Introducing action research into post-secondary foreign language teacher education

Introducing action research into post-secondary foreign language teacher education

The teaching of foreign languages at the post-secondary level in the USA increasingly reflects an interest in developing communicative ...

The development of a lexical tone phonology in American adult learners of standard Mandarin Chinese

The development of a lexical tone phonology in American adult learners of standard Mandarin Chinese

The study reported is based on an assessment of three decades of research on the SLA of Mandarin tone. It investigates whether difference...

UG access in L2 acquisition: Reassessing the question Colloquium papers from the Second Language Research Forum 1998 October 15–18, 1998 at the University of Hawai‘i

UG access in L2 acquisition: Reassessing the question Colloquium papers from the Second Language Research Forum 1998 October 15–18, 1998 at the University of Hawai‘i

Reexamine the assumptions that went into the original UG-access research of the 1980s. Is the original access question a reasonable ...

The life of language, the language of life: Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

The life of language, the language of life: Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures

Checklist: Evaluative criteria for computer-delivered language learning systems

Checklist: Evaluative criteria for computer-delivered language learning systems

The Multimedia Language Learning Software website was developed as a follow-up to the 1998 Invitational Symposium on Assessing and Advanc...

Second language development in writing: Measures of fluency, accuracy, and complexity

Second language development in writing: Measures of fluency, accuracy, and complexity

In this book, the authors analyze and compare the ways that fluency, accuracy, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity have been m...

Foreign language partnership

Foreign language partnership

US policy makers and educators have tended to view immigrant languages as a "problem" rather than recognize these languages as "resources...

Can pragmatic competence be taught?

Can pragmatic competence be taught?

The plenary at the 1997 TESOL Convention explores the 'teachability' of pragmatic ability in a second or foreign language. It is ...

Acquisition of Italian grammatical gender: L2 learners

Acquisition of Italian grammatical gender: L2 learners

This study investigated the sensitivity to gender cues exhibited by L2 learners of Italian. The participants were 64 students in first- a...

1996 New technologies and less commonly taught languages: Abstracts and other information from the NFLRC Symposium

This page includes abstracts and other information from the NFLRC Symposium held at the University of Hawai‘i, July 8-12, 1996.

Bilingualism and early literacy

Bilingualism and early literacy

1996 lecture presented at the University of Hawai‘i by Ellen Bialystok, Sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center.

Computer-mediated collaborative learning: Theory and practice

Computer-mediated collaborative learning: Theory and practice

Explores the nature of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and examines its potential in promoting collaborative language learning....

Motivation for learning foreign languages

Motivation for learning foreign languages

This DVD offers an informative and entertaining discussion of several studies on the role of motivation in second and foreign language le...

Pilot instruments for assessing cross-cultural pragmatics in nonnative learners of Korean

Pilot instruments for assessing cross-cultural pragmatics in nonnative learners of Korean

The instruments in this report are pilot versions of instruments that have been developed in order to provide means for researchers to ex...

Chinese language video clips for classroom use (video version)

Chinese language video clips for classroom use (video version)

Filmed on location in Beijing, mostly at Peking University, these naturalistic video clips, ranging from less than one minute to eight mi...

Linguistics and language teaching: Proceedings of the sixth joint LSH-HATESL conference

Linguistics and language teaching: Proceedings of the sixth joint LSH-HATESL conference

This volume contains 18 articles revolving around linguistic issues, sociolinguistics, and language teaching and learning.

Motivational aspects of using computers for writing and communication

Motivational aspects of using computers for writing and communication

This sample chapter from Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning: Proceedings of the Hawai`i Symposium (Technical Report #12) desc...

Computer-mediated communication in foreign language education: An annotated bibliography

Computer-mediated communication in foreign language education: An annotated bibliography

This literature review is designed to be an online resource to aid teachers and researchers seeking information on computer technology an...

A lesson in learning Hawaiian

A lesson in learning Hawaiian

Lise Winer of Southern Illinois University discusses her experiences learning both Hawaiian and hula, focusing on cognitive learning ...

Language learning motivation: Pathways to the new century

Language learning motivation: Pathways to the new century

This volume chronicles a revolution in our thinking about what makes students want to learn languages and what causes them to persist in ...

Integrating language and content instruction

Integrating language and content instruction

Students who participate in immersion programs not only become proficient in the immersion language, they also achieve academically...

The effect of planning in L2 Spanish oral narratives

The effect of planning in L2 Spanish oral narratives

This study reports on an experiment in which a group of 14 American learners of Spanish as a foreign language performed two monologic pro...

Performance and portfolio assessment (1985–1995): An extended annotated bibliography of sources useful for language teachers

Performance and portfolio assessment (1985–1995): An extended annotated bibliography of sources useful for language teachers

This bibliography offers a collection of extended article summaries drawn from the performance and portfolio assessment literature of the...

Attention and awareness in foreign language learning

Attention and awareness in foreign language learning

Issues related to the role of attention and awareness in learning lie at the heart of many theoretical and practical controversies in the...

Language learning strategies around the world: Cross-cultural perspectives

Language learning strategies around the world: Cross-cultural perspectives

Language learning strategies are the specific steps students take to improve their progress in learning a second or foreign language. Opt...

Pragmatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht [Pragmatics in foreign language teaching]

Pragmatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht [Pragmatics in foreign language teaching]

Pragmatic competence has long been recognized as an important component of communicative competence. How can foreign language instruction...

Hawaiian Immersion Curriculum Development Project

Hawaiian Immersion Curriculum Development Project

This is a preview of a 1996 video documenting the progress of the project "Model Hawaiian Immersion Curriculum."

The role of phonological coding in reading Kanji: A research report and some pedagogical implications

The role of phonological coding in reading Kanji: A research report and some pedagogical implications

Results and pedagogical implications of a study which she conducted on phonological coding in reading kanji using an eye-movement ...

Mandarin Chinese: Four-year instructional goals, curriculum outline, and institutional measures

This curriculum outline includes student profiles, objectives, and an instructional outline for a Chinese language core program which uti...

Virtual connections: Online activities and projects for networking language learners

Virtual connections: Online activities and projects for networking language learners

Computer networking has created dramatic new possibilities for connecting language learners in a single classroom or across the globe. Th...

Developing prototypic measures of cross-cultural pragmatics

Developing prototypic measures of cross-cultural pragmatics

Although the study of cross-cultural pragmatics has gained importance in applied linguistics, there are no standard forms of assessment t...

Pragmatics of Chinese as native and target language

Pragmatics of Chinese as native and target language

This technical report includes six contributions to the study of the pragmatics of Mandarin Chinese:*A report of an interview study cond...

A bibliography of pedagogy and research in interpretation and translation

A bibliography of pedagogy and research in interpretation and translation

This volume includes four types of bibliographic information on translation and interpretation studies: Research efforts across discipl...

A framework for testing cross-cultural pragmatics

A framework for testing cross-cultural pragmatics

This volume presents a framework for developing methods which assess cross-cultural pragmatic ability. Although the framework has been de...

Pragmatics of Japanese as native and target language

Pragmatics of Japanese as native and target language

This technical report includes three contributions to the study of the pragmatics of Japanese: A bibliography on speech act performance...

Research methods in interlanguage pragmatics

Research methods in interlanguage pragmatics

DISCONTINUED: for info contact mastersn@hawaii.edu This technical report reviews the methods of data collection employed in 39 studies o...