Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become an important trend in education; however, it is frequently overlooked at the high school level. Arguably, SEL is even more important at this level than other grade levels for the purposes of effective college and career readiness preparation. The inclusion of SEL into school accountability systems and…

Discusses the effectiveness of a treasure hunt as an educational language-activity for students of English as a second language. Instructions for the treasure hunt and a sample list of items are included. (CFM)

Portuguese as spoken in Brazil differs slightly in pronunciation and vocabulary from that used in Portugal. Words chosen for this language guide will be understood in either country. The guide is not intended to give a complete command of the language, but to enable a traveller to ask directions, make purchases or order a meal. Records that…

Discusses a method that enables students of English to classify and organize their lexical capital by using triangles to diagram sentences. How to inscribe a sentence in a triangle is explained and illustrated. (CFM)

This is a guide to spoken Tagalog. It includes hints on pronunciation, useful words and phases, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and an alphabetical word list. Words and phrases are listed in English, followed by a phonetic representation of the Tagalog word or phrase, and then by the Tagalog spelling. (AM)

One of the main objectives of the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program in San Francisco is to teach Cantonese to non-Chinese speaking children. This teacher's manual is designed to be used at the second level of instruction in Chinese as a second language. For each of the thirty-five lessons, the materials needed are indicated. The basic grammar…

Part of the "Land of Enchantment" series of instructional materials, this very detailed teaching manual is designed to help teachers in bilingual programs prepare students to read Spanish. It contains suggestions for developing reading readiness skills and ways to teach a basic 30-word reading vocabulary. The reading program follows five steps:…

Three approaches to vocabulary presentation in the second language classroom are described. The examples used are drawn largely from German, Russian, French, Latin, and Greek, but they can be extended to all commonly taught languages, although certain approaches are particularly suited to specific languages. In addition, the goals of a particular…

This guide for tutors and teachers dealing with adult Indochinese refugees learning English provides guidelines for materials selection and use, and for making language lessons maximally effective and interesting for the refugee. As an introduction, background information is provided on the refugee's attitudes towards learning English. This is…

This resource book is intended as an aid to persons working with Thai Dam refugees. To help the language teacher, some differences between Lao and English are discussed, specifically tonal inflections, positioning, declension of pronouns, conjugation of verbs, interrogatives, classifiers and predicate adjectives. An outline of cultural differences…

The ten Chinese (Cantonese) short stories given in the student's reader are provided here, as well as a teacher's guide for their use. The English titles of the stories are: (1) "The Dictionary"; (2) "Come, Have Some Rice Noodles"; (3) "Where Shall We Go"; (4) "Beautiful Day"; (5) "The Little Dog's…

This is a Spanish reading guide for the bilingual Spanish-English second grade teacher. The guide contains twenty-eight objectives to be mastered, with the corresponding tests. The emphasis is on encoding, decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension. (CFM)

This mini-text is a set of classroom ready Latin readings, a selection of Martial's epigrams complete with Latin-English vocabularies and reading notes. The readings concern the Roman holiday Saturnalia, at which time the Romans exchanged gifts and favors. The first epigram, Xenia (gifts), gives the reason for the following epigrams, which are…

Visual aids have been developed to strengthen non-English speaking students' ability to speak and write English effectively in their subject areas. Among these aids, graphs have been valuable for economics students because they readily illustrate the nature of the relationship between two sets of numbers. Frequently, the ability to analyze graphs…

The new Arabic Proficiency Test for College Level is designed to serve the field of Arabic instruction in a number of ways. First, it will provide data on students' proficiency in Arabic. Second, it will aid in evaluating Arabic programs in American and Canadian higher institutions. Third, the results obtained from the users of the test will form…