Enhancing Beginner-Level Foreign Language Education for Adult Learners

Foreword by Benjamin Rifkin

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

1. Introduction: Enhancing beginner-level foreign language education for adult learners

Ekaterina Nemtchinova

Part I: Teaching Language Competence

2. Postsecondary language learners' ideal L2 self in a beginning Chinese, French, and Spanish classrooms

Yan Xie and Laura Ziebart

3. Experience with application of usage-based model of language to beginning L2 instruction

Serafima Gettys

4. Enhancing grammar acquisition among beginner-level learners of Chinese using the flipped learning model

Hongying Xu

5. Building beginning Spanish language learners' linguistic and cultural competence through online task-based instruction

Lina Lee

Part II: Teaching Intercultural Competence

6. Integrating culture in language curriculum from beginning to intermediate level in a blended learning environment: A design-based empirical study

Shenglan Zhang

7. Intercultural competence in elementary-level language classes in higher education

Islam Karkour

8. The culture portfolio: Assessing growth toward intercultural competence

Julianne Bryant

9. Employing concept maps in teaching foreign language culture

Elmira Gerfanova

Part III: Teaching with Technology

10. Pathways to digital L2 literacies for text-based telecollaboration at the beginning level

Maria Bondarenko and Liudmila Klimanova

11. Student satisfaction and engagement in a beginning Ukrainian blended-learning course: Debunking fears of blending and lessons learned

Alla Nedashkivska

12. Data-driven learning in a low-level language classroom

Katya Goussakova

13. ???????! Training Russian prefixed verbs of motion in virtual reality

Kristin Bidoshi and Ekaterina Nemtchinova

Part IV: Assessment and Evaluation

14. An exploration of beginner-level Korean learners' perceptions and participation in collaborative writing tasks for learning-oriented assessment

Yunjung Nam and Hakyoon Lee

15. Feminist assessment in elementary world language courses

Veta Chitnev

16. Assessment of the relationship between derivational morphological awareness and second language reading comprehension

Anna Shur

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Flipped Learning Model;Intercultural Competence;World Language Class;L2 Digital Literacy;IDI Score;Student Engagement;IC Development;Heritage Language Learners;Chinese Language Learners;English Grammar;Beginner Level Learners;TBI;Wl Classroom;Post-assessment Surveys;Morphological Awareness;Face To Face;SNS Environment;Kazakhstani;World Language Education;CW Task;ACTFL;LOA;L2 Reading Comprehension;LOA Framework;Digital Writing