Getting Started: Reading Techniques That Work From the Very First Day Journal Articles

abstract

• ABSTRACT  In presenting workshops at Department of Defense schools and other institutions, the authors have encountered teachers who like the idea of a proficiency‐based approach, but argue that it will not work for their languages, at least not with beginners. This article sets forth a number of reading techniques and activities that demonstrate the feasibility of using real foreign language texts and proficiency‐oriented tasks at the earliest stages of a beginning course.

authors

• Meyer, Ralph
• Tetrault, Emery W

status

• published 

publication date

• October 1988

has subject area

• 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy (FoR)
• 2003 Language Studies (FoR)
• Languages & Linguistics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Foreign Language Annals  Journal

keywords

• Education & Educational Research
• Linguistics
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1988.tb01091.x

start page

• 423

end page

• 431

volume

• 21

issue

• 5