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Yuen Yi Lo; Weijun Liang – Language Awareness, 2024
In bilingual education programmes, teachers, particularly content subject teachers, play an important role in helping students master content knowledge and the target language simultaneously. In this regard, teachers' language awareness, which will affect their pedagogical practices, is crucial. Collaboration between content subject and language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods
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Mohammad Ehsanul Islam Khan; Mohammad Shahazahan Seraj Bhuiyan; Mohammad Ekramul Islam Khan – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The current practices and shortcomings of engineering students' English language teaching (ELT) syllabi were examined from the perspectives of learners and teachers in English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The syllabi included content that had little impact on students' communicative competence in English (CC-E). Students were generally…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Descriptions
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Yesil, Seyma; Balçikanli, Cem – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
As English is widely accepted as a lingua franca in today's world, the importance of the language has been acknowledged globally in the present case. To rank the countries in terms of their English language proficiency, the EF Proficiency Index is prepared each year. In this study, five countries having the highest scores according to the Index…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries
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Tunaboylu, Oya – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The present century is characterized by the speed and influx of information. Given that everyday life both at home and work is flowing at head-spinning speed, the time comes fore as a crucial entity to process mountains of information produced and transmitted to the furthest places in the world with a simple click. In brief, time is a precious…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Course Content, Needs Assessment, Research Skills
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Leung, Constant – Language and Education, 2016
The school population in England is linguistically diverse; according to official data, over one million pupils do not speak English as their first language. All teachers are expected to support English as an additional language (EAL) development as part of their professional responsibility. At the same time, there has been little specific…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy
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Macalister, John – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
Needs analysis plays an important role in curriculum design. In particular, needs analysis largely determines the goal and content of the course being designed. When selecting among the many tools available to analyze needs the course designer must consider practicality as well as validity and reliability. In this paper, I report on the novel use…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Semiskilled Workers, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Yu-Chih, Sun – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2008
Toastmasters is a widely recognized international club that aims to develop and enhance the art of public speaking by offering participants educational programmes and chances to speak before groups. This article reports on the integration of the Toastmasters approach to an EFL oral-communication class in Taiwan. As both the author of this study…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Course Content, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Bonheim, Helmut – Zielsprache Englisch, 1972
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Education, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
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Mohan, Bernard A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article discusses the three ways in which language teaching and content teaching may be related. (CFM)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
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Lake, Nancy – ELT Journal, 1997
Summarizes the purpose and essential aspects of learner training and examines the extent to which this training is presented and developed in seven recently published general English language coursebooks for adult students of English as a Second Language. The analysis extends and develops a previous similar discussion. (10 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Style, Course Content, Curriculum Design
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Tripp, Steven D. – System, 1990
Attempts to look at the question of selection and sequencing in light of recent research into the nature of spoken English. Specifically, it is argued that a lexical metasyllabus based on statistical regularities in spoken and written language would be a useful tool to curriculum designers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Language Research
Freeman, David; Freeman, Yvonne – 1988
Whole language content lessons are recommended as a means for teachers of English as a second language to help their students develop both communicative and academic competence. Whole language is an approach to teaching that relies on the principles that lessons should: (1) progress from whole to part, (2) be learner-centered, (3) have meaning and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Curriculum Design
Woidt, Boto – Englisch, 1977
Describes in detail the planning of the courses, division of the material into segments, and the sequence of their introduction. A measure of flexibility is seen as necessary. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Hafernik, Johnnie Johnson; And Others – Journal of Intensive English Studies, 1996
Examines how intensive English programs (IEPs) define and incorporate content-based instruction into their curricula. Using a survey, the study requested basic data about the IEP as well as information about course and content offerings and their success. Findings reveal that IEPs are incorporating content within the curriculum in various ways.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Data Analysis
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Kanno, Yasuko; Applebaum, Sheila Dermer – TESL Canada Journal, 1995
Explores students' views of English-as-a-Second-Language courses in discussions with three Japanese secondary students. Their stories were analyzed in terms of Schwab's four curriculum commonplaces: learner, subject matter, milieu, and teacher. For the students, learning English is connected to negotiating their identities in a new environment.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Interviews
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