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标题：Foreword
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作者：Rubén Chacón Beltrán
期刊名称：ELIA
印刷版ISSN：1576-5059
出版年度：2007
期号：7
页码：7-8
出版社：Univertsity of Seville
摘要：Our mission is to ensure that ELIA functions as an integrative forum for international research on language teaching and learning. Central to this objective is our journal which has been published regularly over the last eight years receiving, as this issue illustrates, a wide range of important contributions from both Spain and from further afield. Patsy M. Lightbown discusses an approach to bilingual education that has gained increasing recognition and support first in the United States, and subsequently in many other countries. Her study focuses on the development of reading ability in Spanish and in English in the context of two-way bilingual education programs which encourage groups of students to interact and learn each other's language. Aoife Ahern, Ma Luisa García Bermejo and Teresa Fleta present an exploration of the efficiency of various different vocabulary teaching and learning methods used in young learners' EFL classes. They compare the outcome on vocabulary learning of using textbook-based materials with the results obtained through storybook-based teaching