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Content Knowledge (TPCK) are used as springboards to frame these modifications to theories
and discussions on current foreign language education. The relationship between students’
proficiency and teachers’ effectiveness with French literacy has been
the focus of significant
research. A long-standing controversy in language education has to do with whether languages
can
be acquired, or merely learned, in the classroom. Brown (1980), McLaughlin (1987), and
Gregg (1987) maintained that both learning
and acquisition may occur in classrooms.
Meanwhile, Krashen and Terrell (1983) stated that acquisition can occur only in
natural settings
but later admitted that “despite our conclusion that language teaching is directed at learning and
not acquisition, we think that it is possible to encourage acquisition very
effectively in the
classroom” (p. 27). Krashen and Terrell (1983) agree and believe that the key question facing
language educators is to develop appropriate methods and resources best suited to enabling L2
learners to acquire to some extent a certain level of communicative proficiency appropriate to
their interest and competency. Finally, according to Smith & Renzulli (1984),
effective
instruction reaches out to all students, not just those with one learning style.
Students taught
entirely with methods antithetical to their learning style may be made too uncomfortable to learn
effectively, but they should have at least some exposures to those methods to develop
a full
range of learning skills and strategies.
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