Games and activities for primary modern foreingn languages.

Incorpora la filosofía del aprendizaje a través del juego. El objetivo del recurso es dar a los profesores de inglés como lengua extranjera en el nivel primario, ciento cincuenta actividades seleccionadas especialmente para animar a los alumnos a utilizar la lengua de una manera divertida. Los juegos y actividades se dividen en cinco secciones. También incluye una sección de vocabulario para cada uno de los idiomas alemán, francés y español.

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.

Learners’ perceptions of being identified as very able: insights from Modern Foreign Languages and Physical Education

While learners’ attitudes to Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and to Physical Education (PE) in the UK have been widely investigated in previous research, an under-explored area is learners’ feelings about being highly able in these subjects. The present study explored this issue, among 78 learners (aged 12-13) from two schools in England, a Specialist Language College, and a Specialist Sports College. Learners completed a questionnaire exploring their feelings about the prospect of being identified as gifted/talented in these subjects, and their perceptions of the characteristics of highly able learners in MFL and PE. Questionnaires were chosen as the data collection method to encourage more open responses from these young learners than might have been elicited in an interview. While learners were enthusiastic about the idea of being highly able in both subjects, this enthusiasm was more muted for MFL. School specialism was related to learners’ enthusiasm only in the Sports College. Learners expressed fairly stereotypical views of the characteristics of the highly able in MFL and PE. The relevance of these findings for motivation and curriculum design within both subjects is discussed.

English teaching in the Southwest; organization and materials for instructing Spanish speaking children, compiled for the Committee on modern languages of the American council on education,

Lithoprinted.

A general catalogue of valuable and rare old books, in the ancient and modern languages, and various classes of literature; which are now on sale at the prices affixed to each,

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A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages.

Issued later with title Ancient and modern familiar quotations.

A sketch of the modern languages of the East Indies. Accompanied by two language-maps.

Includes indexes.

The works of Virgil : tr. into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow, with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical and classical notes, from the best commentators, both ancient and modern, beside a very great number of notes entirely new. For the use of schools, as well as of private gentlemen.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Virgil : translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow : with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes, in English, from the best commentators both ancient and modern, beside a very great number of notes entirely new : for the use of schools, as well as private gentlemen.

Includes index.

The professed cook; or, The modern art of cookery, pastry, & confectionary, made plain and easy; consisting of the most approved methods in the French, as well as English cookery ... With the addition of the best receipts, which have ever appeared in the French or English languages.

In part, a translation and adaptation of Menon's Les soupers de la cour, Paris, 1755.

A practical method for learning Spanish: in accordance with Ybarra's System of teaching modern languages.

Mode of access: Internet.

Dictionary of the English and German languages for general use : compiled with especial regard to the elucidation of modern literature ... /

Mode of access: Internet.