The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States, in the K-12 context, is diverse and comprised of lesser-known subordinate groups including Long-term English Language Learners (LTELLs). The LTELL designation refers to students who, after attending schools for six or more years, still require English as a New Language (ENL)…

The case study in this article offers a descriptive account of challenges involved in teaching Australian Curriculum content in the common teaching context in remote communities where an Indigenous language is spoken as the everyday form of communication and students learn English in what is essentially a foreign language setting. An on-the-ground…

This analysis is aimed at evaluating the current English learning material used in Ibn Siena Integrated School Foundation. Since textbook evaluation has become an important tool in searching for an effective learning material, this paper sets the goal of providing answers to the presented research objectives such that it highlights the use of the…

Discusses the suitability of functional syllabuses as a basis for general course design, and means whereby functionally oriented materials may be integrated within existing language programs. (Author/AM)

Describes the new syllabus used for teaching English to secondary school students in Israel. (Author)

Curriculum guide for a unit of work on language study for pupils at the junior secondary level. (Author)

Second language learners must acquire a generative system of grammar. There is, as yet, no way of describing notions in generative terms. Long-term syllabuses will have to continue to be syntactically based, but the incorporation of notions from a checklist is acceptable. (Author/JB)

Consists of a curriculum guide prepared by teachers of English as a second language to children between the ages of five and seven in the "English to Immigrants" service of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell. (CFM)

Urges the broadening of language study by looking beyond an exclusively literary training. (Author/LG)

An analysis is made, with the help of a computer, of a number of different teaching vocabularies for Thai students of English with a view, first, to finding out how far they correlate with one another, and, second, to establishing as far as possible a teaching order within lists themselves. (Author/RM)

Gives lists, under the names of the various states of the Federal Republic of Germany, of the most important state institutions and publications concerned with curricula, chiefly in English and French, but also in Spanish, Italian, Russian and Dutch. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Presents an analysis of the various concerns that must be addressed in modern language syllabus design. A questionnaire on students' communicative needs is included. An attempt is made to differentiate among different syllabus forms. (AM)

Current Affairs is offered as an option to literary texts for students of French working toward the Victorian Higher School Certificate. (Author)

The article reports on work in progress on the preparation of a textbook for elementary Russian. Arguments are advanced for the presentation of highly marked and more differentiated material at an early stage. Also discussed are problems of the quantity of material to be presented and the introduction of vocabulary. (CLK)