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Download full textPapadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Azores, Fortunata M. – 1980
The proceedings of a conference on Asian Americans held in New York City in May 1978 are summarized in this report. The conference consisted of workshops on four issues: employment, voter participation, youth, and the elderly. In the workshop on employment, issues discussed included the participation of Asians in the health system and in the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Employment, Language Proficiency, Older Adults
Rivera, Charlene, Ed. – 1984
A collection of selected papers from the March 1981 Language Proficiency Assessment Symposium, a component of the National Institute of Education's Assessment of Language Proficiency of Bilingual Persons project, are presented. Papers include: "An Overview of Communicative Competence" (Cynthia Wallat); "Some Comments on the Terminology of Language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conference Proceedings, Immersion Programs
Council on International Educational Exchange, New York, NY. – 1993
This booklet presents the highlights of the 46th International Conference on Educational Exchange including the texts of three speeches given at the Conference. Conference sessions addressed global competence from the perspective of international exchanges, various professions, and the formal educational system, as well as the relation of global…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Global Approach, Government Role
Fryer, T. Bruce, Ed.; Medley, Frank W., Jr., Ed. – 1990
In 1989, the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) celebrated its silver anniversary at a conference designed to provide participants with an opportunity both to reflect on the past and to look at the future of foreign language teaching and of SCOLT in the light of a quarter century of experience. Seven of the papers in this volume were…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Mead, Robert G., Jr., Ed. – 1982
The articles and presentations in this publication relate to the general theme of the 1982 Northeast Conference, the foreign language teacher as a lifelong learner. The concept that in the best teachers learning and teaching form a progressive continuum, and that learning and teaching occur simultaneously is the basic assumption underlying all the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Language Proficiency
Seidner, Stanley S., Ed. – 1982
The following papers are included in this volume dealing with issues and research in language assessment: (1) "Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Assessment," by J. L. Ornstein-Galicia; (2) "Language Proficiency Assessment: Research Findings and Their Application," by C. Rivera and C. Simich; (3) "The Role of Grammar…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Diagnosis, Language Proficiency
Rodriguez, Victor, Ed. – 1980
Materials are presented from a workshop designed to provide an opportunity for bilingual education researchers and practitioners to share knowledge, experiences, and concerns related to assessing language proficiency. The sessions included: (1) "Formal and Informal Evaluation of Oral English Language Skills," by William Russell; (2) "Assessing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Korean
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1981
The following papers on teacher education are presented: (1) "How to Break Out of the Never-Ending Circle of Retraining: A Self-Adjusting Mechanism for the 1980s," by Frank M. Grittner; (2) "Preservice Teacher Education: Some Thoughts for the 1980s," by Elizabeth G. Joiner; and (3) "Inservice Teacher Education: Content and Process," by Helen L.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Teachers
Wylie, Elaine, Ed. – 1990
The proceedings of a working group conference on proficiency testing of Japanese as a second language contain a brief background paper distributed to conference invitees, a list of items included in the pre-conference portfolio, an advance organizer of potential discussion topics, a 77-item annotated list of bibliographies on second language…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Daily Living Skills, Employer Attitudes, Foreign Countries
An Ethnographic/Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Proficiency Assessment. Multilingual Matters 8.
Rivera, Charlene, Ed. – 1983
The symposium from which these papers are gathered was one component of the Assessment of Bilingual Persons Project to pursue research on the nature of language proficiency and to keep teachers informed of related assessment issues for classroom assessment improvement. The papers include: "A Sociolinguistic/Discourse Approach to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingualism, Children
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. – 1981
The status and priorities of the teaching of East Asian languages were discussed in eight papers presented at a 1981 conference. The topics addressed include: (1) the need to give language teaching a higher priority as a national concern; (2) the role of the federal government in East Asian language study; (3) the teaching of Japanese, Korean, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Educational Innovation, Government Role, Japanese
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1981
The following position papers on evaluation are presented: (1) "Curricular and Comprehensive Program Evaluation," by Ray Clifford; (2) Evaluation--Proficiency Goals, CBTE National Assessment: How Do They Interrelate?" by Randall L. Jones; and (3) "Priorities in Classroom Testing for the 1980s," by Alice C. Omaggio. The first paper describes an…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives
Lee, James F., Ed.; Geeslin, Kimberly L., Ed.; Clemens, J. Clancy, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers is divided into four sections. Section 1, "Historical Linguistics," includes "The Grammaticalization of Non-Dative Reflexes of Latin ill- in Spanish" (Jose R. Carrasquel) and "'Esto es Ligero de Fazer': Object to Subject Raising in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish" (Mark Davies). Section 2, "Language Acquisition and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Kamada, Laurel; And Others – 1996
Conference papers on bilingualism and children are presented, including: "The Nurture and Nature of Bilingual Acquisition" (Laurel Kamada, Liu Xing-Ying, Willeta Silva, Mary Goebel Noguchi); "Early English Acquisition in the EFL Situation" (Soo-Woong Ahn); "Age Factors and Language Proficiency in Child SLA" (Kazuko Yumoto); and "Development of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies
