foreign language education

Learning another tongue

Foreign language education is instruction in languages other than a student's native tongue, typically as a school subject: She studied Spanish through her school's foreign language education program.

The field encompasses teaching methods, curriculum design, and assessment for second-language acquisition.

In American contexts, it often distinguishes classroom language study from immersion or bilingual education.

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cross-cultural communication · sociolinguistics · pragmatics · global citizenship · immersion programs · study abroad · exchange student · native speaker · conversation partner · speaking practice · mother tongue · interactive whiteboards · metacognition · flipped classroom · grammar drill · flash cards · ethnography · working memory

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Teaching of numerical disciplines

science education · vocational training · physical education · STEM education · technical education

Family

foreign, foreigner, foreigners, foreignness, language, languages, linguistic, lingua, lingual

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