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Yes, Talking!: Organizing the Classroom to Promote Second Language Acquisition.

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Enright, D. Scott; McCloskey, Mary Lou – TESOL Quarterly, 1985

Summarizes the central assumptions of the communicative language teaching model and the potential difficulties that regular classroom teachers may face in implementing it. Seven criteria for use in organizing communicative classrooms are presented, and applications of these criteria to decisions about organizing classroom interaction and the…

Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)

English as a Second Language in Kindergarten--Language and Concept Development. Preschool Education Series, No. 4. Indochinese Refugee Education Guides.

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Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975

Oral language development in early childhood education is concerned with conceptual development as well as with skill formation. There seems to be an order in which most children learn to verbalize basic concepts. This guide lists classroom activities that may be used to facilitate and enhance the conceptual development of kindergarten children in…

Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Educational Games