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ENHANCING BEGINNER-LEVEL
FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
FOR ADULT LEARNERS
This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for
engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses.
Built around a diverse range of international research studies and conceptual
articles, the book covers four key issues in teaching language to novice students:
development of linguistic skills, communicative and intercultural competence,
evaluation and assessment, and the use of technology. Each chapter includes
teaching insights that are supported by critical research and can be practically
applied across languages to enhance instructional strategies and curriculum
designs. The text also aims to build intercultural competence, harness technol-
ogy, and design assessment to stimulate effective learning in formal instructional
settings, including colleges, universities, and specialist language schools.
With its broad coverage of language pedagogy at the novice level, this book is
a must read for graduate students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the
fields of language education, second language acquisition, language teaching and
learning, and applied linguistics.
Ekaterina Nemtchinova is Professor of Linguistics at Seattle Pacific University,
USA, where she was named “Professor of the Year” in 2018. Her research inter-
ests include teacher education and technology in language teaching. She has pre-
viously authored a number of articles and textbooks in these areas.
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Using Digital Portfolios to Develop Students’ Writing
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ENHANCING
BEGINNER-LEVEL
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
EDUCATION FOR
ADULT LEARNERS
Language Instruction, Intercultural
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Assessment
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Benjamin Rifkin x
Acknowledgments xiv
List of contributors xv
1 Introduction: Enhancing beginner-level foreign language
education for adult learners 1
Ekaterina Nemtchinova
PART I
Teaching language competence 9
2 Postsecondary language learners’ ideal L2 self in a beginning
Chinese, French, and Spanish classrooms 11
Yan Xie and Laura Ziebart
3 Experience with application of usage-based model of language
to beginning L2 instruction 26
Serafima Gettys
4 Enhancing grammar acquisition among beginner-level
learners of Chinese using the flipped learning model 42
Hongying Xu
viii Contents
5 Building beginning Spanish language learners’ linguistic and
cultural competence through online task-based instruction 58
Lina Lee
PART II
Teaching intercultural competence 75
6 Integrating culture in language curriculum from beginning to
intermediate level in a blended learning environment:
A design-based empirical study 77
Shenglan Zhang
7 Intercultural competence in elementary-level language classes
in higher education 95
Islam Karkour
8 The culture portfolio: Assessing growth toward intercultural
competence 113
Julianne Bryant
9 Employing concept maps in teaching foreign language culture 131
Elmira Gerfanova
PART III
Teaching with technology 147
10 Pathways to digital L2 literacies for text-based
telecollaboration at the beginning level 149
Maria Bondarenko and Liudmila Klimanova
11 Student satisfaction and engagement in a beginning Ukrainian
blended-learning course: Debunking fears of blending and
lessons learned 167
Alla Nedashkivska
12 Data-driven learning in a low-level language classroom 185
Katya Goussakova
13 Поехали! Training Russian prefixed verbs of motion
in virtual reality 200
Kristin Bidoshi and Ekaterina Nemtchinova
Contents ix
PART IV
Assessment and evaluation 215
14 An exploration of beginner-level Korean learners’
perceptions and participation in collaborative writing
tasks for learning-oriented assessment 217
Yunjung Nam and Hakyoon Lee
15 Feminist assessment in elementary world language courses 235
Veta Chitnev
16 Assessment of the relationship between derivational
morphological awareness and second language reading
comprehension 254
Anna Shur
Index 270
