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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:18:28 CST
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- From: Andrew D Cohen-1 <adcohen@STAFF.TC.UMN.EDU>
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- >
- > Being the author of the chapter that Andrew Cohen referred to (in the volume
- >Foreign Language Acquisition Research and the Classroom, edited by Barbara
- >Freed), I feel that I have to respond to some of the messages that have
- >come through SLART lately.
- > There is no doubt that a great many people have sat through years of "foreign
- > I agree that a lot of what goes on in some language departments in high
- >schools or colleges in this country is somewhere between ludicrous and
- >useless, but that absolutely does not imply that language teaching is useless
- >and should be replaced by a semester abroad.
- >In my opinion, it certainly is not a matter of classroom vs. overseas.
- >
- >Robert DeKeyser
- >University of Pittsburgh
- >rdk1@pittvms
- >rdk1@vms.cis.pitt.edu
- >
- The reference is as follows (I just got the book back): Robert M. DeKeyser,
- "Foreign language development during a semester abroad." In B.F. Freed
- (ed.), Foreign Language Acquisition Research and the Classroom. Lexington,
- MA: DC Heath, 1991, 104-119.
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- DR. ANDREW D. COHEN
- ESL, 126 Klaeber Ct, U of Minnesota, 320 16th Ave SE, Mpls, MN 55455
- Tel: 612-624-3806/Fax: 612-625-2312/NEW e-mail: adcohen@staff.tc.umn.edu
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