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The Project in the Foreign Language Classroom
Author(s) -
Bornscheuer Joan
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1979.tb00176.x
Subject(s) - mathematics education , class (philosophy) , foreign language , psychology , chose , process (computing) , pedagogy , computer science , political science , programming language , artificial intelligence , law
Second‐year university students were presented with the idea of doing a project early in the semester and chose topics based on their own interests. After a month, a two‐part program was scheduled in place of the regular classes; projects on similar subjects were grouped and presented to the class as a whole. This article describes some projects in detail, also some variations on the “one student, one project” idea which were introduced as a result of student participation in the planning process. The students' reactions are shown through their responses to the Teacher/Course Evaluation questionnaire, administered at the end of the semester.