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Gillette, Susan – ESL Working Papers, 1982
A study of the communication skill needs of the foreign teaching associate (TA) in American universities focused on two questions: (1) What does a foreign TA do to communicate information in an American classroom in terms of comunication strategies and devices for cohesion and coherence of discourse? and (2) How does this compare with the way an…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Peer reviewedYousif, Amna Abdel Gadir – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examined the speech of Sudanese non-native speakers of English while they lectured to non-native English speaking students from in content-subject classes. The study was carried out to see whether lecturers simplified their language syntactically by proficiency level. Findings reveal that the lecturers used five different syntactic variables…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Download full textKuehn, Phyllis – 1996
Addressing the problem of the language-related barriers to successful postsecondary education for underprepared college students, an assessment of academic language proficiency and a curriculum to help students improve their academic language skills were developed. The nature of the language tasks required in the undergraduate curriculum was…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Classroom Communication, Curriculum Development, High Schools
