As blended language learning environments evolve within tertiary foreign language institutions, issues of power with regards to the privileging of electronic technologies come to the fore. Blended learning, or the principled mix of online and classroom-based activities, challenges the practices of traditional CALL and face-to-face teaching within…

This manual is designed for the use of ESL students in the language laboratory. The manual consists of 30 lessons, each between 5 and 10 minutes in length. Every fifth lesson, beginning with lesson 10, is a review lesson. The emphasis is on punctuation. For a 15-week course, the materials are designed to be used twice a week during the regular…

All thesis projects (a total of about 800) for the M.A. in linguistics at the University of Lancaster from 1969 through 1978 are listed in this bibliography. Each description includes title, author, date, number of pages, topic categorization, and a 15- to 50-word abstract. The listing is in subject order within chronological order and is not…

Describes the results of using field-specific written materials in a language laboratory setting to teach oral skills in a support course for international teaching assistants for the purpose of promoting automaticity in oral production and raising the intelligibility of students through the improvement of fluency and pronunciation. (25…

A source list of instructional materials on foreign language teaching for use in secondary schools covers such topics as audiovisual aids, curriculum guides, cultural and travel aids, foreign language periodicals, language tests , vocational opportunities, language laboratories, linguistics, and programed instruction. All items are for sale and…

This report of the third Indiana-Purdue Language Laboratory Conference emphasizes techniques and teaching in the laboratory rather than a technical discussion of equipment. Major topical divisions subsuming individual author articles are related to: (1) structural drill, (2) evaluation of laboratory technique, (3) current textbooks and the…

A language laboratory component became an integral part of the ESL (English as a second language) program at Sacramento City College when student enrollment increased and a freeze on hiring new teachers went into effect. While the number of class hours of each ESL course was reduced, an hour or two per week of laboratory work was added. The term…

A survey was completed by 194 secondary school English teachers in Switzerland. Data indicate that: (1) a relatively small number of teachers have degrees from universities outside Switzerland; (2) the study of English generally does not begin until the age of 15; (3) the great majority of English classes meet for three or four hours a week; (4)…

This course (a series of six student workbooks, 230 tapes, and a teacher's guide containing a tapescript key) is designed for older children and adults learning English as a foreign or second language, or for speakers of nonstandard English dialects. Programed for self-instructional use and a minimum of assistance from the teacher, the course…

A study tested the English vocabulary and reading comprehension of about 1,500 Japanese college and university students and compared three different media formats for teaching vocabulary in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) in a number of Japanese college classes: commercially available and teacher-adapted computer software; traditional…

This guide for teaching English at the seventh grade level in German comprehensive schools contains the following major headings and subtopics: (1) Fundamentals and Postulates: student grouping problems, recommendations for a plan of instruction and use of materials, and learning goals in secondary education; (2) the Audiolingual Conception: a…

This plan describes the nature and the extent of the English as a second language (ESL) program in Adult Education in the San Francisco Community College District. The key portion of the Master Plan is the specific-levels component which divides the ESL program into eight distinct levels and gives the scope and limitations of each. At the end of…