Abstract
This research aims to evaluate the teaching materials and the teaching methodology currently being explored in a newly-designed type of course called Bi-language Simultaneous Learning (BSL). In this course, students learn two foreign languages at the same time. The lesson methodology is based on a team teaching approach in which two teachers participate: one for English and the other for French, German or Spanish. A contrastive linguistic approach and cross-cultural analyses are the key characteristics of the teaching techniques being developed by the team-teachers. The authors conducted research and evaluated classes of different combinations of two languages, i.e., English-French, English-German, and English-Spanish. In the evaluation, the authors analyzed students' satisfaction with the classes and identified six factors that contributed to an affirmative evaluation of the classes. It was found that the degree of satisfaction and enthusiasm of the students for this type of course with respect to improvement of their language skills were related to class instruction techniques, teaching materials, the attitude and motivation of their peers, and recognition of achievement by their teachers.
