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de Silva, Maria Antonieta Donis – MEXTESOL Journal, 1983
Reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities and exercises that use folders of interesting material that students can use alone or in small groups are described. The folders contain pictures or other material of interest to the students, instructions in English and Spanish, and answers. The folders are color-coded by type of activity.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textMathuna, Liam Mac, Ed.; And Others – 1988
Papers presented at a symposium on Europe's less commonly taught languages include the following: "The Necessity of Dialogue" (Marcel de Greve); "Socio- and Psycholinguistic Interference in Teaching Foreign Languages" (Penka Ilieva-Baltova); "Satellite Television, National Television, and Video in Teaching/Learning Less…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cultural Traits, Diachronic Linguistics, Dutch
McAlpine, Dave, Ed.; And Others – 1989
Selected papers from the 1989 Central State Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages include the following: "From Talk to Action: An Essential for Curricular Change" (June K. Phillips); "Comprehensible Input for Intermediate Foreign Language Students via Video" (Tracy David Terrell); "Developing Extensive Reading Skills: The Transition to…
Descriptors: African Culture, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education
Mitchell, Evelyne – 1986
Scotland's vocationally-oriented Napier College was funded by the French Government to develop language courses for scientists and engineers. The courses developed have been intensive and extensive, based on work started by a team of French scientists focusing on the language, concepts, and ways of thinking common to the scientific community.…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Content, Course Organization, Engineering
Carver, Peter; Howard, Joan – 1983
The teacher's guide to a set of instructional materials for an English as a second language unit on automobiles as a form of transportation focuses on the history of the auto's development, importance to the Canadian economy, and impact on the lives of Canadians. The target audience is secondary students at intermediate and advanced English…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Advertising, Costs, Cultural Education
Clayton, Thomas, Ed. – Cross Currents, 1990
This special issue of a journal on language teaching and cross-cultural communication includes both regular articles and forum essays. Regular feature articles include: "Is Japanese English Education Changing?" (Yoshie Aiga); "Textual Schemata and English Language Learning" (S. Kathleen Kitao); "Visuals and…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges
Heald-Taylor, Gail – 1986
This handbook outlines learning strategies in language arts for children in kindergarten to third grade learning English as a second language (ESL). They are designed for the Whole Language or Natural Approach. Although reading and writing are the key language components emphasized, listening, speaking, drama, and visual arts activities have been…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Dictation
TEAM, 1984
The four 1984 quarterly numbers of the journal include feature articles, techniques for teaching English as a second language (ESL), research summaries, and book reviews. The feature articles include: "The English Language Center at King Faisal University"; "English Language Training at ARAMCO"; "AlBank AlSaudi AlHollandi's Practical English…
Descriptors: Arabs, Book Reviews, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Selman, Mary – 1979
This handbook provides basic information about adult learning as it relates to acquiring another language. It is intended to serve as an introduction to more comprehensive study for instructors and tutors. The guide provides some information on the following subjects: (1) an outline of reasons for adapting existing textbook material and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Audiolingual Skills
PDF pending restorationSham, Diana Po Lan – Online Submission, 2002
The research was conducted in Sydney and Hong Kong using students, from grades 5 to 9, whose first language or teaching medium was English, learning to read Chinese as second language. According to cognitive load theory, the processing of single Chinese characters accompanied by pictures should impose extraneous cognitive load and thus hinders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Language, Chinese
Reck, Deborah L. – 1982
The Homebound English for Refugee Women project was designed to address the daily communication needs of homebound refugee women illiterate in their native languages. The curriculum presented here is for use by volunteers with little or no formal teacher training. The teacher's manual consists of two main parts: (1) suggestions to the volunteer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cambodians, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Traits
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1987
Alberta's guide to English as a second language (ESL) instruction in the elementary schools is designed as a supplement to the general elementary language arts curriculum guide. It provides guidelines for programming that gives ESL students opportunities to learn English. It contains: (1) an orientation section on the nature of culture; (2) a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Peace Corps, Gaborone (Botswana). – 1985
A Peace Corps workshop for prospective language teachers is reported. The workshop's goals were to train a team of teacher candidates in effective language instruction methods, Peace Corps organization and operations, cross-cultural skills, and adult second language instruction techniques. Workshop content covered: discussion of the teacher…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiolingual Methods, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Communication
Jones, Douglas; And Others – 1995
The materials, visuals to accompany a presentation on development of workplace literacy programs, include: a definition of workplace literacy; flow chart for basic skills program development; definition of workplace education needs assessment; list of topics for interviewing trainers, supervisors, management personnel/HR, safety, union/labor…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Course Content
