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Download full textHumphries, Tom – Berkeley Review of Education, 2013
Deaf people have long held the belief that American Sign Language (ASL) plays a significant role in the academic development of deaf children. Despite this, the education of deaf children has historically been exclusive of ASL and constructed as an English-only, deficit-based pedagogy. Newer research, however, finds a strong correlation between…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Special Education
Direct linkMonteiro, Kátia – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This study investigated the effectiveness of oral metalinguistic feedback and recasts as well as the effect of focused tasks (FT) in the development of implicit and explicit knowledge during video-conference interactions. This was accomplished by partial replication of a study performed in a classroom setting. Three groups of Brazilian EFL…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Feedback (Response), Experimental Programs, Error Correction
Sun, Ming-Lei – Online Submission, 2011
Two proposed style assessment instruments are employed to explore the learning styles of non-English major college students in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context in Chinese universities. It was found that their overall learning preferences in English language learning demonstrate a tendency, so that discovering the students' learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Preferences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
School Research (Swedish National Board of Education Newsletter), 1969
This document describes plans for a project investigating the introduction of English as a second language in Swedish schools beginning with the first grade. (English is now introduced as a compulsory foreign language in grade 4.) The primary aim of the Project is "to generally illustrate the effects which occur when the total number of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs
Trevino, Bertha G. – Mod Lang J, 1970
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Schools
Taylor, Thomasine – 1970
An experimental program designed to develop oral language (English) was started in the San Antonio Independent School District in 1964 and included 28 first grade classrooms of culturally deprived urban Spanish-speaking children. Classrooms were designated as Oral-Aural English, with intensive English one hour daily; Oral-Aural Spanish, with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs
Belfrom, Clelia C. – Florida FL Reporter, 1969
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs, Language Programs
Johnson, Francis C. – RELC Journal, 1972
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Experimental Programs, FLES
Roberts, J. T. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1975
Outlines a strategy attempted as an alternative to the traditional instruction in intensive sessions of English at the Institut Universitaitre de Technologie in Nancy, France. Included were six basic activities (films, TV, press, tape library, games, and language laboratory) in a minimally-structured three-day session. (MSE)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Psychology, English (Second Language)
Taylor, Thomasine Hughes – 1969
The study reported in this dissertation was conducted with the cooperation of the San Antonio Independent School District as part of the Language Research Project (formerly the San Antonio Language Research Project), Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Texas. (For the author's descriptive abstract of the project, see AL 002…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs
Peer reviewedEisenstein, Miriam; And Others – System, 1987
Reports on an experimental teaching approach, based on an innovative video series, used in an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) class for beginning learners. The tapes, which focused on students as they learned (with the viewers learning along with them), showed generally favorable results for ESL students. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Educational Television, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs, Instructional Effectiveness
Boey, Lim Kiat – RELC Journal, 1975
Although the medium of instruction in many universities in Southeast Asia is the respective national language, many sources of information are in English. This article reports on an experiment at the University of Malaya to develop reading comprehension in English by means of the SRA (Scientific Research Associates) Reading Laboratory. (CLK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Experimental Programs, Higher Education, Language Laboratories
Hayes, Eloise – 1972
"Creative Expression" designates a program at the University of Hawaii for the development of better oral language skills among the children of Hawaii. This essay describes the program as it operates in the public schools. A more general account of Hawaiian personality is given; Hawaiian children tend to be quiet and unresponsive in the classroom…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Teaching
REINDORP, REGINALD C. – 1962
A 10-WEEK INTENSIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WAS DEVELOPED AT MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN COLLEGE AND CONSIDERABLE EXPERIMENTING WAS DONE WITH DIFFERENT METHODS, MATERIALS, AND TECHNIQUES. THE GOVERNING ASSUMPTIONS WERE THAT LANGUAGE BASICALLY CONSISTS OF SPEECH OR SOUND, AND THAT THE MASTERY OF A SOUND SYSTEM INVOLVES THE MASTERY OF THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs
Girard, Denis; And Others – 1988
A study of the organization of modern language curricula in Council of Europe member countries includes a discussion of theoretical aspects and problem areas in syllabus design, an analysis of syllabuses for school use, and a statement of the principles of syllabus construction. The discussion of syllabus design problems looks at the concept of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design
