Teaching foreign languages in the primary school.

Muestra que la enseñanza de idiomas en la escuela primaria puede ser eficaz y agradable sin importar el idioma materno del alumno, ni qué nivel ha alcanzado el maestro en su aprendizaje del idioma. Incluye una visión general de la enseñanza del idioma, estudios de casos, capítulos teóricos sobre la adquisición del lenguaje del segundo idioma y métodos de enseñanza, seguidos por capítulos prácticos sobre cómo los niños desarrollan las habilidades de escucha, habla, lectura escritura y estrategias de aprendizaje, cómo utilizar juegos, canciones e historias de manera eficaz y cómo facilitar la transición entre las escuelas primarias y secundarias.

The Use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to Evaluate Compositions in the English Exam Section of the University Admission Examination. 'El uso del Marco Com??n Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas para evaluar las redacciones en la secci??n de ingl??s de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad'

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: 'Nuevas perspectivas en la secci??n de idiomas de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad'. Resumen basado en el de la publicaci??n

The European Declarative System, Database, and Languages

The EP2025 EDS project develops a highly parallel information server that supports established high-value interfaces. We describe the motivation for the project, the architecture of the system, and the design and application of its database and language subsystems. The Elipsys logic programming language, its advanced applications, EDS Lisp, and the Metal machine translation system are examined.

Giving up on modern foreign languages? Students' perceptions of learning French

This article reports on the findings of an investigation into the attitudes of English students aged 16 to 19 years towards French and how they view the reasons behind their level of achievement. Those students who attributed success to effort, high ability, and effective learning strategies had higher levels of achievement, and students intending to continue French after age 16 were more likely than noncontinuers to attribute success to these factors. Low ability and task difficulty were the main reasons cited for lack of achievement in French, whereas the possible role of learning strategies tended to be overlooked by students. It is argued that learners' self-concept and motivation might be enhanced through approaches that encourage learners to explore the causal links between the strategies they employ and their academic performance, thereby changing the attributions they make for success or failure.