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Download full textOffice of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies by teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Student Financial Aid, Languages
The Full-Year Asian Language Concentration FALCON Program in Chinese Language at Cornell University.
McCoy, John – 1979
The Full-Year Asian Language Concentration (FALCON) program was designed for students who need an intensive program in Chinese to make them proficient enough for graduate study. Using L1, FALCON teaches students to express adult concepts in L2. Since good writing requires a great degree of proficiency, it is neglected initially for the sake of a…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Graduate Students
Peer reviewedde Ataide Melo, Cecil L. – Hispania, 1988
Describes the development and use of a video module for an intensive conversational Portuguese class for graduate business students. Tips are given for successful classroom use of off-air videocassette recordings. (LMO)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Class Activities, Conversational Language Courses, Graduate Students
Wong, Shelley D. – Journal of Intensive English Studies, 1992
A study investigated proverbial reference in the language of three Chinese graduate students literate in English, contrasting rhetorical use and its contribution to cohesion. Subjects referred to Chinese proverbs frequently, even though they did not help convey meaning well in English, because of emphasis placed on their use in Chinese writing.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cohesion (Written Composition), Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Traits
White, Ruth; And Others – 1975
Each panelist described the program in his school or district. Donald Fraser discussed the elementary school French program in North Vancouver which started in October 1974 and includes ten pilot schools. Classes are held for twenty minutes each day. The materials used were written by Canadian authors and have considerable Canadian content.…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Elementary Education, FLES, French
van Naerssen, Margaret; Pressley, Joyce – 1991
The problems encountered in implementing an intensive summer course in English for specific purposes, designed to prepare students for graduate study in urban planning, urban design, and architecture, are discussed by the course's language and content specialists. Positive course results included development of useful classroom communication…
Descriptors: Architecture, Classroom Communication, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
