Presentation
Fostering the Acquisition of Academic Language While Developing Communicative Competence
Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Event Date
3-11-2016
Location
Columbus, OH
Abstract
With the push for language learners to develop communicative competence in their target languages, the goal of developing academic proficiency is often neglected, especially at the early learning stages. Presenters offer strategies for fostering early academic language proficiency while expanding communicative competence in the college-level beginning and intermediate language classrooms.
Disciplines
Keywords
- Language instruction,
- higher education,
- curriculum and articulation,
- academic,
- communication
Citation Information
Annis N. Shaver and Louise M. Grandouiller. "Fostering the Acquisition of Academic Language While Developing Communicative Competence" Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/louise_grandouiller/3/