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Brooks, David, Ed.; Robbins, Jill, Ed.; Long, Robert, Ed. – 2000
Forty papers presented at the Japanese Association for Language Teaching (JALT) conference were selected for inclusion in this volume. JALT is a nonprofit professional organization of language teachers dedicated to the improvement of language learning and teaching in Japan. JALT's publications and events serve as vehicles for the exchange of new…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Mestenhauser, Josef A., Ed.; And Others – 1988
The 18 author contributed papers examine orientation programs for foreign college and university students studying in the United States and for U.S. students preparing to study abroad. The marriage of theory and practice in addressing the two major issues of: (1) lack of agreement on standards for orientation; and (2) the common lack of student…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Culture, Foreign Students
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1992
The key role that language and language policy play in relation to education, culture, and multiculturalism was emphasized throughout the plenary and workshop discussions of the 43rd Session of the International Conference on Education, convened by UNESCO in September, 1992. This paper reports the roundtable discussions of this meeting. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Anthropological Linguistics, Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism
Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon. – 1990
Five papers on linguistics contained in this issue include the following: "Tones for Profoundly Deaf Tone-Language Speakers" (Teresa Y. C. Ching), a study using a simplified speech pattern approach to enhance perception of tonal contrasts in Cantonese; "Word Formation and the Limits of Analytic Equivalence" (Peter Crisp), a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deafness, Dialects, English
Larson, Penny, Ed.; And Others – 1984
Presented in this volumer are selected convention papers on topics in teaching English as a second language (ESL). Topics include literacy vs. literate skills; ESL development among preschool children in Singapore; language proficiency and comprehension of anaphoric subject pronouns in bilingual and monolingual children; the ESL noise test and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Dunatov, Rasio, Ed. – 1976
This volume contains six workshop papers, each of which deals with one or more aspects of communicative competence. These papers are primarily reports of certain techniques which have been found successful for teaching and testing the ability to communicate in a foreign language. "Communicative Competence: Safety Tips for Riders on the Latest…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conference Reports, Cultural Education
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1981
The leadership of the foreign language education profession convened to discuss the major issues for that profession in the 1980s. Several papers each were devoted to the following subjects: (1) curriculum and materials, (2) global education, (3) evaluation, (4) research, and (5) teacher education. Brief reaction papers for each subject are…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Global Approach
Redard, F., Ed.; And Others – 1979
This special issue concerns the content, function, and form of instructional materials dealing with second language instruction. The following articles appear: (1) "Deliberate Semantics--an 'Interventionist' Approach to Second Language Teaching Methodology," by A.P.R. Howatt; (2) "Sprechakte und Sprachunterricht (Speech Acts and Language…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Development
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1977
This publication presents the proceedings of a national conference on the research and policy implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lau v. Nichols that was held in Austin, Texas, June 17-18, 1976. The conference was designed around eight panel discussions that focused on the following topics: 1) analysis of performance variables…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Cultural Awareness
Neville, Edwin L., Jr., Ed. – 1975
This was a working conference designed to elucidate the practical applications and benefits of self-instructional language programs and to point out what not to do as well as how to run a program for colleges and universities who would like to begin language instruction in one or more of 29 languages available through NASILP. It was also geared to…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, College Language Programs, Conference Reports
Morrison, Bruce, Ed.; Cruikshank, Don, Ed.; Gardner, David, Ed.; James, Jeff, Ed.; Keobke, Ken, Ed. – 1999
This edited volume of conference papers includes the following: "The Mystery Photo Album: Defining a CALL Paradigm" (Ken Keobke); "Lexicon-Driven Learning on the Internet: A Design Strategy for a World Wide Web 'Virtual Language Learning Classroom'" (Chris Greaves); "Giving Students Something To Do with Concordance…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Educational Technology, English (Second Language)
O'Brien, Teresa, Ed. – 1999
This monograph offers papers presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. After an introduction entitled "The Pluralisation of Literacy" (Teresa O'Brien), the papers are: (1) "National Literacy Strategies: A Debate" (Jill Bourne, Gunther Kress, Brian Street, and Alison Sealey); (2)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Family Influence
Moisset, Christine, Ed.; Lipson, Mimi, Ed. – 1999
This issue includes the following articles: "Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation" (Julie Auger, Jeffrey Steele); "Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation" (Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet); "Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Ethnic Groups
Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Morrison, Timothy, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Boggs, Merry, Ed.; Raine, I. LaVerne, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2010
For its 53rd annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers met in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Marriott Charlotte City Center. This year's conference theme was "Building Literacy Communities", which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 32. This organization has long been the home of some of the nation's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Influence of Technology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
This document presents the proceedings of the 17th Annual Research Forum held June 29, 2012, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included herein are the following 25 action research papers: (1) "Reading and Writing": A Study Comparing the Strengths of Peer Review and Visible Author Writing Strategies (Elizabeth Behar); (2)…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Peer Evaluation, Writing Strategies, Active Learning
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