Suchergebnisse

Many people in Puerto Rico, including English teachers, have questioned why so many university students perform poorly in English after having had thirteen or fourteen years of formal instruction in English as a second language. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of sex, education of the head of the household, family monthly income, type of university attended and years spent living in the US on the relationship between attitudes toward Americans and achievement in English

J. Sneddon reviews the book "Bahasa Tetanggaku: a notional-functional course in Bahasa Indonesia" by Ian J. White. Sneddon discusses the teaching of formal, informal or a combination of both forms of Bahasa Indonesia in Australia. He points out that far from being a conservative language, formal Indonesian has undergone more rapid change than informal and nonstandard varieties. (DÜI-Sen)