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Conspiring to Decolonise Language Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Reactions from a Reading Group
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Browning, Peter; Highet, Katy; Azada-Palacios, Rowena; Douek, Tania; Gong, Eleanor Yue; Sunyol, Andrea – London Review of Education, 2022
Within the spirit of conspiration, this article brings together contributions from participants of the PhD-led UCL Reading and React Group 'Colonialism(s), Neoliberalism(s) and Language Teaching and Learning', which ran in 2019/20. Weaving together various perspectives, the article centres on the dialogic nature of the decolonial enterprise and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Colonialism, Educational Change
Analysis of Elementary School English Teachers' Professional Dialogue as Their Professional Development
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Chien, Chin-Wen – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
This qualitative study analyzed the professional dialogue among 67 English teachers at seven elementary schools in New Taipei City in Taiwan. Based on the analysis of the documentation, observation, and interviews, the study has two major findings. First, the knowledge and skills covered in the professional dialogues of English teachers concerned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Progressing from Imitative to Creative Exercises: A Presentation of the Bilingual Method.
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Alexander, Loren; Butzkamm, Wolfgang – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1983
A teaching method is described and illustrated that begins with the presentation of a basic dialogue containing new learning material and progresses to the group's acting out its own dialogues and discussing them with the class. The objective is to lead learners from understanding new material to using it creatively and, ultimately, for their own…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Dialogs (Language), Role Playing
Situational Dialogues in a Community College: English as a Second Language Curriculum
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Klinghoffer, Curtis L. – Online Submission, 2008
A tuition-free, vocational, English as a second language (ESL) program offered at a large community college suffers from high attrition as well as student dissatisfaction with curriculum. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, longitudinal study was to assess the effectiveness of a specific ESL curriculum supplement as an intervention to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Standardized Tests
Curriculum for Proficiency: Concepts to Build On.
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Rickerson, Earl M. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1984
Discusses the design of a course in Mandarin Chinese developed by the US government's Interagency Language Roundtable after President Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China and its implications for vocabulary choice, the teaching of grammar, the use of dialogues, achievement tests, listening comprehension, and classroom activities.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Class Activities, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
So You Want To Be in Pictures: Videotaping in the Foreign Language Classroom.
Bowman, Connie L. – OMLTA Journal, 1985
In one high school French department, videotaping began to be used as part of a final examination. It was found that the students wanted to see their tapes and began to critique their own and others' performances. The next year, taping was done earlier in the school year so that the tapes could be used as performance models. Students were more at…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Dialogs (Language), Difficulty Level