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Long, Michael H.; Porter, Patricia A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Discusses both the pedagogical arguments and the psycholinguistic rationale for small-group work in the second language classroom. Claims that the negotiation work possible in group actiity makes it an attractive alternative to the teacher-led discussion. Reviews research findings on interlanguage which generally support the claims made for group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Group Discussion, Interlanguage, Psycholinguistics
Heuer, Helmut – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
Analyzes the difference between "ultimate-target language" (authentic English in all its varieties), "learner's language" (with its limitations), and "learning-goal language," this latter referring to differentiated instruction with graded "input" steps. Teaching suggestions are given. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
Laing, Neville – 1985
A variety of games for beginning second language learners are described. The games are designed to develop the student's confidence in communicating in the target language and to help establish his interlanguage. They include: a bilingual guessing game, to be played by a learner and a native speaker; a game to match words, pictures, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Educational Games, Games
Winitz, Harris; And Others – 1985
In the comprehension approach to second language instruction, the major procedure is to provide students with comprehensible input, which it is the students' responsibility to understand. The aim is to encourage nucleation of the target language, that is the crystallization of the rule system. Teaching procedures focus on strategies for implicit…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Quality, German, Intensive Language Courses
Gettys, Serafima – 1998
The lexical approach to teaching Russian grammar is explained, an instructional sequence is outlined, and a classroom study testing the effectiveness of the approach is reported. The lexical approach draws on research on cognitive psychology, second language acquisition theory, and research on learner language. Its bases in research and its…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Psychology, Grammar, Higher Education
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Language Australia, Melbourne (Victoria). Adult Education Resource and Information Service. – 2001
This information sheet will assist teachers and coordinators in determining the suitability of the Certificates in English Language Literacies (CELL) curriculum for use by examining the potential target group of learners. This information also provides an overview of some of CELL's organizing features and its framework. Topics covered include:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Xu, George Q. – 1989
When intermediate and advanced students of English as a second language (ESL) begin an English composition course, they face the task of creating logical extended discourses in English. Often, while the sentences they create are free from obvious grammatical errors, they are stylistically unacceptable, vague in meaning, misrepresentative of the…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
Trimble, Ruth A. – 1993
It is proposed that a major obstacle for intermediate-level learners of English as a Second Language is the transition from thinking in the native language to thinking in English, that this transition must be made before proceeding from the intermediate level, and that it should begin as early as possible in language training. Early in-class…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
Kalogjera, Damir; Vilke, Mirjana – 1982
Part of a 20-year Yugoslav Serbocroatian-English Contrastive Project, this study is intended to make students, teachers, textbook writers, and scholars aware of elements in the system of English modals that might cause difficulties to the native Serbocroatian-speaking learner of English. An eclectic method of contrastive analysis consisting of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed to accompany an orientation seminar for students concerning language learning processes and strategies and the design of their program includes materials for five sessions, in three sections. The first section covers language learning and acquisition in general and contains a survey of the participants' foreign language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization, Interlanguage
Dicker, Susan J. – 1981
An approach to promote student editing of their own compositions, to be used in intermediate English as a second language classes, is discussed. Although editing or monitoring may not improve the communicative accuracy of a written message, it may give the message a more native-like quality. Monitoring works best on morphemes which are acquired…
Descriptors: Editing, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammar
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Gorbet, Frances – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Discusses the value of classifying the errors adult language learners make and of comparing them to errors made by children. It is suggested that teachers correct student errors in the same way parents correct children's errors in order to encourage successful learning. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Stiefel, Jane – 1982
The language community of urban Hispanics in the United States and educational strategies that are appropriate for teaching English as a second language (ESL) in a bilingual/bidialectal language situation are considered. Within the New York City Hispanic community of Puerto Ricans, several varieties of English have been noted: standard English,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed as a guide for trainers in a seminar for teachers concerning some of the central issues in contemporary foreign language teaching and learning presents notes on each of the five seminar sessions, including overall goals and goals for the prescribed session activity, time and procedural notes, and reading lists. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization
Crookes, Graham, Ed.; Gass, Susan M., Ed. – 1993
Essays on second language teaching focuses on how the kinds of tasks performed by the learner relate to language output. "Choosing and Using Communication Tasks for Second Language Instruction" (Teresa Pica, Ruth Kanagy, Joseph Falodun) contains a taxonomy of communication task types, based on the concepts of goal and activity,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
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