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9781413000405

Advanced Foreign Language Learning, 2003 AAUSC Volume

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  • ISBN13:

    9781413000405

  • ISBN10:

    1413000401

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-11-06
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

The popular AAUSC series of annual volumes for directors of university language programs strives to further scholarship in second language acquisition and teaching with regard to undergraduate programs with multi-section courses. Teaching assistant supervision, teaching assistant professional preparation, and the role of faculty and administrators in postsecondary institutions are some of the topics addressed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v
Introduction Creating Sites for Collegiate Advanced Foreign Language Learning:
Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim, Editors
vii
Part One: Literacy As a Conceptual Framework for Collegiate Advanced Learning 1(86)
Richard G. Kern
Literacy and Advanced Foreign Language Learning: Rethinking the Curriculum
2(17)
Janet Swaffar
A Template for Advanced Learner Tasks: Staging Genre Reading and Cultural Literacy through the Précis
19(28)
Heidi Byrnes and Katherine A. Sprang
Fostering Advanced L2 Literacy: A Genre-based, Cognitive Approach
47(40)
Part Two: Heritage Learners As Advanced Learners 87(26)
Daniel J. Villa
Heritage Language Speakers and Upper-Division Language Instruction: Findings from a Spanish Linguistics Program
88(11)
Olga Kagan and Kathleen Dillon
Heritage Speakers' Potential for High-Level Language Proficiency
99(14)
Part Three: Contexts For Advanced Learning 113(64)
Casilde A. Isabelli
Study Abroad for Advanced Foreign Language Majors: Optimal Duration for Developing Complex Structures
114(17)
Astrid Weigert
"What's Business Got To Do with It?" The Unexplored Potential of Business Language Courses for Advanced Foreign Language Learning
131(19)
Cori Crane, Olga Liamkina, and Marianna Ryshina-Pankova
Fostering Advanced-Level Language Abilities in Foreign Language Graduate Programs: Applications of Genre Theory
150(27)
Postscript 177(15)
Hiram H. Maxim
Expanding Visions for Collegiate Advanced Foreign Language Learning
178(14)
About the Contributors 192(3)
AAUSC Style Sheet 195

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