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Coady, James, Ed.; Huckin, Thomas, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on second language vocabulary learning includes: "Historical Trends in Second Language Vocabulary Instruction" (Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman); "The Lexical Plight in Second Language Reading: Words You Don't Know, Words You Think You Know, and Words You Can't Guess" (Batia Laufer); "Orthographic Knowledge in L2 Lexical Processing: A…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Difficulty Level
Download full textPeace Corps, Manila (Philippines). – 1993
This guide is designed for Ivatan (Ibatan) language training of Peace Corps workers in the Philippines, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of: phrase lists for a wide range of daily activities and needs; a list of targeted core language competencies, at three proficiency levels, for those daily activities; an…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Services, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills
Yturralde, Nancy – 1995
This lesson plan for the first grade uses information on transportation, with sub-themes of communities and careers, to provide history/social science education for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in San Diego, California. Activities and materials from the State scholastic science kit are also used, as are songs, poems, music, and games.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, English (Second Language), Grade 1
PDF pending restorationTella, Seppo – 1992
The linguistic purposes of this research were to focus on content, themes and topics, and to analyze the way the target language (English) was used in e-mail. Communicativeness and the roles of the communicator (writer-reader) became central, emphasizing the multidirectional character of e-mail communication. The basic tenet of communicativeness…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Developed Nations
Reiter, Sharon Cabral – 1994
This study investigated the attitudes of 15 urban high school students, enrolled in several different levels of Spanish second language instruction, concerning language study and instruction. Results suggest that students see language instruction as primarily grammar-oriented, but would prefer more oral practice and application. They see…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education
PDF pending restorationNuopponen, Anita, Ed.; Palmberg, Rolf, Ed. – 1989
This publication consists of a collection of 18 papers in English, German, Swedish, and Finnish originally presented at a 1988 symposium of the Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics (AFinLA), which was organized jointly by the University of Vaasa and the Department of Teacher Education at Abo Akademi, Finland. Papers focus on the following…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Finnish, Foreign Countries
Griffin, Gary A. – 1994
This occasional paper reflects on issues raised during a seminar called "Teachers for the 1990s and Beyond," and deals with teaching and learning in schools where multiple languages are spoken by students. Central to the seminar was the recognition of the growing numbers of language minority English learners (LMELs) in schools where…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Educational Improvement
Ancess, Jacqueline; Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1994
International High School, New York (New York) is a secondary school for students who have been in the United States less than 4 years and who score below the 20th percentile on an English language proficiency test. The 310 students of 1988 came from 37 nations, and spoke 32 languages. An evaluation conducted in the 1991-92 school year indicates…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperative Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Change
Newbrook, Mark – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
A study compared the perceptions of two experts from different cultural backgrounds concerning salience of a variety of errors typical of the English written by Hong Kong secondary and college students. A book on English error types written by a Hong-Kong born, fluent Chinese-English bilingual linguist was analyzed for its emphases, and a list of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English
Kuhlman, Natalie A.; And Others – 1993
A study investigated the emerging journal-writing skills of 16 monolingual Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans and 10 monolingual English-speaking first-graders in San Diego County, California, in a whole-language, two-way bilingual classroom. The research looked for developmental stages in writing in the primary language, similarities or…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
Otsu, Yukio, Ed. – 1989
Seven original research papers are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Acquisition of the Argument-Structure of Verbs" (Mika Endo); "A Note on Semantic Selection" (Yoshio Endo); "The Governing Category Parameter in Second Language" (Makiko Hirakawa); "The Use of Connectives in English Academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Pulliam, Brenda J. – 1993
A study investigated the use of varied reading materials to improve French second-language reading skills, found to be unacceptably low at the second-year level. Subjects were 30 high school students of second-year French. A pretest of reading skills and a language and reading attitude survey were administered to the students. Subsequently, a…
Descriptors: Context Clues, French, High School Students, High Schools
Ji, Kangli – 1997
A discussion of factors that influence English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning by native speakers of Chinese focuses on three specific factors (cognitive style, individual differences, and native language interference), and offers classroom solutions. The effect of each of the three factors on ESL comprehension and production is considered,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Toohey, Kelleen; Day, Elaine – 1998
An ongoing four-year ethnographic study of two cohorts of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in mainstream Canadian primary school classrooms is described. The two cohorts are: (1) a group of six children observed from the beginning of kindergarten through the end of grade 2, and (2) five children observed from early kindergarten…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (ED), Washington, DC. – 1990
Ten research papers are presented that were commissioned by the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs for the 1990 research symposium on issues related to Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) students. Responses from 20 practitioners who served as discussants at the symposium are included in the proceedings. Topics range from…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Demography, Early Childhood Education
