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College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1986
This publication is a guide for foreign language teachers in improving their curricula and achieving better foreign language education outcomes. The objective is to help students develop more usable skills and realistic cultural awareness. The first chapter locates foreign language education within the College Board's larger Educational Equality…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Classical Languages, Classroom Techniques
Danner, G. Richard; And Others – 1977
An informal guide to the self-evaluation of school and college foreign language programs is presented. Its purpose is to suggest guidelines to departments that have not yet developed their own full evaluative procedures. Questions relate to: (1) philosophy and goals; (2) curriculum, methods, materials, and facilities; (3) faculty training and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Language Programs, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives
Fischer, Robert A. – 1978
Proponents of the cognitive approach to language teaching list linguistic competence as the primary instructional objective and attribute considerable importance to listening comprehension. For the student, linguistic competence would be knowledge of grammatical components of the language and its vocabulary. Understanding oral messages is an…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
DeAvila, Edward A.; Duncan, Sharon E. – 1977
This collection of over 100 games and activities is intended to increase oral proficiency among Spanish-speaking children without requiring reading skills. The collection grew out of the desire to provide remedies for specific linguistic weaknesses in English as identified by the Language Assessment Scales (LAS). Because tongue twisters, riddles…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Child Language, Childrens Games
DeAvila, Edward A.; Duncan, Sharon E. – 1977
Like its English counterpart, this is a collection of over 100 games and activities whose intent is to increase oral proficiency without requiring reading skills. The collection grew out of the desire to provide remedies for specific linguistic weaknesses in Spanish as identified by the Language Assessment Scales. Because tongue twisters, riddles,…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Child Language, Childrens Games
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Foreign Language Service. – 1977
This publication is one of a series designed to inform and assist those responsible for foreign language instruction, including teachers, administrators, supervisors, and those engaged in teacher education. The complete series serves as a curriculum guide. The format of the series is such that it can be revised so as to keep materials current.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Audiovisual Aids, Curriculum Guides, Department Heads
Allen, Edward David; Valette, Rebecca M. – 1972
The aim of this handbook is to show the teacher ways of implementing and supplementing existing materials. The suggested teaching procedures may be used in classes of varying sizes and levels, and with any method. Although the emphasis is on teacher-made materials, many of the techniques suggested may be implemented with commercial programs,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Escobedo, Theresa Herrera – 1978
Culturally responsive programs incorporate the child's native language and cultural knowledge as part of the curriculum. In addition they consider the child's development in terms of relationships among self-concept, culture and achievement. While it has been established that self-concept and ability to achieve influence one another, the way in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
Clements, Robert J. – 1978
This book is intended to be a sustained exposition of the principles, practices and standards of comparative literature. After a discussion of the origins, definitions and dimensions of the discipline, three chapters address questions of establishing and maintaining a department: staffing, budgeting, selecting students, setting up a curriculum,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Design, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Dissertations
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1978
This journal consists of guides to instructional materials and articles on subjects of interest to teachers in bilingual education programs. The following articles and regular features appear in this issue: (1) "Social Class or Culture? -- A Fundamental Issue in the Education of Culturally Different Students," by Frank Angel, an excerpt from a…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Behavior Change, Biculturalism
Jorstad, Helen L. – 1974
The principal aim of testing is to communicate to the student the extent to which he has progressed in attempting to fulfill his goals. Progress in the testing field is observed especially as a step in a feedback loop that includes goals, tasks, and evaluation procedures for providing feedback to the student. The teacher-as-learner also uses test…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Criterion Referenced Tests
Sutherland, Kenton, Ed. – 1977
This volume of CATESOL (California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Occasional Papers includes the following: "ESL Adult Literacy," by Jack Wigfield; "Language Teaching as a Means to Self Knowledge, Self Acceptance, and Communication with Others," by Beverly Galyean; "Let Your Students Be Actors: Using Videotape…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education
1977
This directory of suppliers of educational foreign language materials provides information on the following items: adult education materials, bilingual-bicultural materials, books, dictionaries and encyclopedias, films and filmstrips, journals, lab and classroom equipment, pen pals, placement bureaus, posters, records, cassettes, tapes and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Education, Dictionaries
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem (Israel). – 1977
This journal, published in Israel, contains articles of interest to teachers of English as a second language, particularly those in Hebrew-English situations. This issue contains the following articles: (1) "Evaluating the Teacher's 'Control of English'," by R. Gefen; (2) "Instructional Television and the English Proficiency Level…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Educational Games