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Burstall, Clare – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1974
Described an educational experiment in which primary school students continued their language education in a secondary school. (RK)
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, French, Language Fluency, Language Handicaps
Manpower, 1970
In this program English is taught as a second language, so that Puerto Ricans can meet the necessary language requirements for career development while maintaining their cultural integrity. (BH)
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Language Handicaps
de Klejn, P. G. M. – Higher Education and Research in the Netherlands, 1974
Article evaluated the need for foreign students to understand Dutch in order to study in the Netherlands as well as to exist socially. (RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dutch, Foreign Students, Institutional Cooperation
Download full textSlatter, Stuart St. P.; And Others – 1974
A pilot study was undertaken for the Community Relations Commission of the employment of non-English speaking immigrants in British industry, using open-ended interviews (21 at the management level, 15 others, and 128 immigrants). Objectives were (1) to investigate the impact on business organizations of employing non-English speaking immigrants…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Benefits, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
OTT, ELIZABETH – 1967
THE BASIC CONCEPTS USED IN DEVELOPING THE LANGUAGE AND READING EDUCATION PROGRAM WERE--(1) ALL HUMAN ORGANISMS ARE ESSENTIALLY ALIKE AND THEREFORE MAN'S BASIC NEEDS ARE THE SAME, (2) FUNDAMENTAL LIKENESSES EXIST IN ALL CULTURES, (3) CHILDREN FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE DIMENSIONS OF THEIR OWN CULTURE ARE READY TO MOVE TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Culture, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedMerino, Barbara J. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1983
To compare and contrast language development in 22 normal and 22 language handicapped children, aged five to eight, who speak Spanish as a first language, the study focused on differences and similarities in the children's Spanish. Handicapped children performed significantly worse than controls in production of syntactic features, though not in…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Elementary Education
