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**__NEWS ARTICLES ON TEACHING IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE__ user:KathrynHin**
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Language immersion schools prepare students to achieve higher degrees and work in professional positions.
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**__PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES ON TEACHING IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE__**
The guide is designed to illustrate how it is realistic and possible to teach in a target foreign language, propose effective instructional strategies and techniques, and offer suggestions for inservice teacher workshops on the approach. It is proposed that language students need to experience the target language as a real means of communication, have a chance to develop their own built-in learning system, and bridge the gap between controlled, secure classroom practice and the unpredictability of real language encounters.
 * Halliwell, Susan and Jones, Barry. "On Target: Teaching in the Target Language." Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, London (England). 1991.**

The author argues that second language acquisition (SLA) theorists have struggled to conceptualize the relationship between the language learner and the social world because they have not developed a comprehensive theory of social identity which integrates the language learner and the language learning context. She also maintains that SLA theorists have not adequately addressed how relations of power affect interaction between language learners and target language speakers. Further, she argues for a conception of investment rather than motivation to capture the complex relationship of language learners to the target language and their sometimes ambivalent desire to speak it.
 * Peirce, Bonny Norton. "Social Identiy, Investment, and Language Learning." //TESOL Quarterly.// Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 1995.**

This article discusses the anxiety that many people experience in a foreign language classroom and how it can really inhibit the learning process, despite the level of intellgience and/or motivation that a student has.
 * Horwitz, Elaine K. and Michael B., Cope, Joan. "Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety." //The Modern Language Journal.// 1986.**


 * Kramsch, Claire. "Context and Culture in Language Teaching." Oxford University Press, England. 1993.** Second language teaching is viewed from the perspective that its core objective is to teach the cultural context of discourse in the target language, rather than to teach the traditional four language skills and culture as a fifth component.

This article delves into the issues that teachers have when it comes to using the target language (in this article, French) as the medium of instruction.
 * Franklin, Carol E.M. "Teaching in the Target Language: Problems and Prospects."** //**Language Learning Journal.**// **University of Edinburgh. 1990.**