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Elson, Nicholas – TESL Talk, 1983
Surveys some of the principal theories and methodologies in second language instruction. (EKN)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar Translation Method
Download full textFrank, Marcella – 1998
The history of instructional material development for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction in the United States is chronicled through five different instructional approaches: the audiolingual approach (late 1940s to early 1960s); transformational grammar (early 1960s to the present); Total Physical Response (late 1970s to the present);…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational History, English (Second Language)
Labbe, Raul; Varas, Amanda – 1993
A computer-based set of instructional materials, designed to teach English second-language reading skills to university-level engineering students, is described and its development is outlined. The programmed units are designed to be used individually on the computer. The stages of software development included: selection of sentence units from…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Curriculum Design
