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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
Ross, Steven – 1992
This report evaluates a 6-week intensive summer program for language teachers at the University of Hawaii. Thirty-two high school or college teachers and teacher trainees of Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Spanish participated. Participants were led by master teachers who provided exemplary teaching, organized language-specific activities,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Higher Education, Indonesian, Inservice Teacher Education
Gass, Susan M., Ed.; Neu, Joyce, Ed. – 1995
Articles on speech acts and intercultural communication include: "Investigating the Production of Speech Act Sets" (Andrew Cohen); "Non-Native Refusals: A Methodological Perspective" (Noel Houck, Susan M. Gass); "Natural Speech Act Data versus Written Questionnaire Data: How Data Collection Method Affects Speech Act…
Descriptors: Advertising, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Brown, David – 1998
A 1996 South African law vested elementary/secondary school governing bodies with formation of school policy concerning both language(s) used for instruction and those selected for second-language study. The study reported here investigated the perceptions of language teachers, principals, and governing body members on language policy, policy…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afrikaans, Curriculum Design, Educational Policy
Bell, Nancy, Ed.; Evans, Bruce, Ed.; Wang, Shuhan C., Ed. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
Four papers on linguistic theory and language research include: "Language Policy, Language Education, and Language Rights: Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Perspectives" (Nancy H. Hornberger), a discussion of how language policy and language education serve as vehicles for promoting the vitality, versatility, and stability of…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Campbell, Stuart; And Others – 1993
This work is one in a series that focuses on nine languages representing the bulk of the second language learning effort in Australian education (Arabic, Modern Standard Chinese, French, German, Modern Greek, Indonesian/Malay, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish). These languages were categorized as the Languages of Wider Teaching. Overviews of Arabic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Bilingual Education, Course Descriptions
PDF pending restorationCampora, Olga Kovarova – 1994
The course in beginning-level Czech is designed for adult students and businesspersons needing to learn use of the language in everyday circumstances. It emphasizes speaking and listening skills and contextualized language, focusing on meaning over form. The materials consist of 44 instructional units on nine topics: first social contact; social…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Competency Based Education, Conversational Language Courses
Biro, Jan E. – 1991
A study examined the factors shaping English language education within the Japanese public education system and the attitudes of Japanese learners toward the pronunciation of English, first in an overview and then within the context of a case study of an adult Japanese student. The first section discusses the status and instruction of English in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Students
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Papers in this volume include the following: "The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning" (Lila R. Gleitman); "Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut" (Shanley Allen, Martha Crago); "Why Do Children Omit Subjects?" (Paul Bloom); "Acquiring Language in a Creole Setting: Theoretical and Methodological…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
Williams, Jessica – 1990
An examination was conducted of the planned and unplanned speech of 24 native speakers of Mandarin and Korean who were serving as teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Each was videotaped on two occasions two weeks apart in a preparation course for international teaching assistants (ITAs), in which instruction in the use of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Students
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
During the 1989-90 school year, the Russian/Greek Bilingual Comprehensive Instructional program was fully implemented, serving 707 limited-English-speaking native Russian- and Greek-speaking students at seven public and three private high schools. Participating students received instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), native language…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Business Education, Career Counseling
Richmond, Edmun B. – 1983
The findings of a study of language and language education policy in each of the three independent nations of Comoros, Mauritius, and the Seychelles are reported in this book. Each country is discussed separately, focusing on the linguistic and educational history, the existing educational system, and current language policies and programs.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Creoles, Developing Nations, Educational History
Livesey, Paul, Ed.; Verma, Mahenra K., Ed. – 1989
The 25 selected papers contained in this volume reflect the current diversity of interests and research methods within the field of sociolinguistics. Titles include: "What is a Language?"; "The Unreality of Quantitative Figures"; "Addressee-Oriented Features in Spoken Discourse"; "Women's Speech, Women's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Education, Black Dialects, Chronological Age
Nasr, Raja T., Ed. – 1983
Papers in French, English, and Arabic address issues in Arabic language instruction for European adults, including: classroom techniques, literary Arabic and diglossia, the specificity of instruction, Arabic studies in Denmark, phonetic difficulties of instruction, Franco-Maghrebin relations and language instruction, contrastive and comparative…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Bulgarian, Classroom Techniques
Molteno, Marion – 1986
This methods and materials guide for native language instruction for immigrants in British elementary and secondary schools includes discussions of the needs of the learners, the traditional approach to native language instruction, experimentation with new methods through bilingual books, the teaching of reading for information and pleasure, the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals
