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Intensive Second Language Study: Effects on Attitudes, Motivation and French Achievement.
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Gardner, R. C.; Smythe, P. C. – Language Learning, 1977
A study was conducted to examine the changes in students' attitudes, motivation and French achievement during a five-week, residential, summer program. Sixty-two students were administered a battery of attitude and motivation tests as well as a test of oral French proficiency prior to, and upon completion of, the course. (CFM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Instruction
Institutes in Adult Basic Education; Three Week Institute for Training Experienced Teachers to Teach Standard English to Adults with an Education Equivalency of Eighth Grade or Less (A TESOL Project). Final Report.
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Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee. Dept. of Language Labs. – 1971
Two three-week institutes in adult basic education, with emphasis on teaching English to speakers of other languages or dialects, were held at the University of Wisconsin in the summer of 1969. The institutes attempted to train and upgrade a number of culturally and linguistically sophisticated language teachers for adult basic education so that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Educational Programs, English (Second Language)
Une Experience C.R.A.P.E.L. (An Experience at C.R.A.P.E.L.). Melanges Pedagogiques, 1972.
Lagarde, J. P.; Boulanger, C. – 1972
In July of 1971 and of 1972, meetings were held, in York and Nancy, respectively, organized by the University of York's Language Teaching Centre and by the Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pedagogiques en Langues. These meetings were attended by 80 British teachers of French and 80 French teachers of English at the secondary level. The…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, English (Second Language), French, Higher Education
Final Report on the National Defense Language Institute Conducted by Emory University at Besancon, France, June 20 to August 21, 1962.
Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA. – 1962
This document describes the 1962 Emory University French Institute at Besancon, organized for American high school teachers whose experience in France was limited or not recent. The report covers publicity for the institute and response to publicity; criteria for admission; selection; data concerning participants; curriculum; audiovisual aids; the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, French, Inservice Teacher Education
Kielitiede ja Kielenopetus. Linguistics and Language Teaching. Jyvaskyla Contrastive Studies. Reports from the Department of English, No. 5.
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Sajavaara, Kari – 1977
This volume contains 6 selected papers from the First Finnish Summer School of Linguistics, held in Jyvaskyla in June of 1977. The School was organized to create a new forum for postgraduate training of professors in Finland, and for exchange of information about trends in linguistic research. The theme of this first meeting was "language…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar
A Computer-Assisted Bilingual/Bicultural Teacher Education Program (Spanish/ English).
Golub, Lester S. – 1976
The purpose of this project was to accomplish two goals: (1) to provide the school district of Lancaster (Pennsylvania) with an inservice program for teachers in the bilingual education program; and (2) to develop a computer-assisted bilingual education teacher training program. Seven two-day workshops were held. In addition to providing inservice…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development