The three issues of the journal on second language teacher education include these articles: "Making a Course Your Own: Involving Trainees in the Planning and Evaluation of a Special Group Summer Course Abroad" (Klaus Lutz); "Task Based Learning - Appropriate Methodology?" (Jane Cadorath, Simon Harris); "Building Group…

Papers from the 1997 and 1998 Current Trends in English Language Testing (CTELT) conferences include: "Computer-Based Language Testing: The Call of the Internet" (G. Fulcher); "Uses of the PET (Preliminary English Test) at Sultan Qaboos University" (R. Taylor); "Issues in Foreign and Second Language Academic Listening…

This primer describes the comprehensive nature of the role of the public school teacher working directly with children from non-English-language backgrounds. Intended primarily for less experienced teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL), it may be useful to aides, tutors, administrators, counselors, health professionals, mainstream…

To Examine and Plan for Occupational Requisites and Employment (Project EXPLORE) was a federally funded program in its fourth year of operation in two Queens (New York) high schools in 1992-93. It served 451 limited-English-speaking students of varied language backgrounds with less than two years of schooling in English. The project's two…

The guide is designed for volunteer tutors of English as a second language (ESL). It consists of two parts: the guide itself, offering principles and methods for ESL instruction, and a report of the guide's development. The guide begins with by outlining basic principles and classroom considerations of ESL tutoring. The second chapter discusses…

Papers included in this volume from a conference on language teaching include the following: "The Symposium on the Evaluation of Foreign Language Proficiency: Challenges to the Profession" (Albert Valdman); "Conversion to a Proficiency Oriented Curriculum at the University Level" (Carmen Villegas Rogers, William H. Heflin, John…

Ideas about resources and methods especially appropriate for Indian students are presented in this book of 19 chapters by 17 authors. The bulk of the material is addressed to non-Native teachers, and teaching methods do not require knowledge of a Native American language. The opening chapter lays out evidence of the need for improving Native…

Teachers of social studies, foreign language, science, and journalism will find these learning activities useful in integrating "The New State of the World Atlas" (Simon and Schuster, 1984) into their curriculum. The book is organized into three sections. The first section uses an area studies approach. Activities focus on geopolitical…

This guide is intended for teachers in Hawaii to use in conjunction with the videotape program AVENUES. AVENUES is a series designed to help students understand and appreciate the practical application of skills and knowledge gained through the regular curriculum as they enter the world of work and to motivate students to begin to plan career…

This collection of abstracts describes 273 research reports selected among the research materials and publications produced by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) since its foundation in August 1972, through December 1981. Most of these reports are briefly summarized into the abstract form while some are presented in descriptive…

Part VI of the proceedings includes 12 presentations. They are: "Teaching Students How to Read Economics and Commercial Texts in a Commercial French Course: Focus on Meaning" (Robert A. Kreiter); "The Teaching of French for Computers and Information Science" (John B. Romeiser); "A Program in French for Hotel and Restaurant Management Majors: The…

This bibliography of education from a distance (by correspondence or telecommunication) covers materials produced in the late 60s and in the 70s. All facets of education and a variety of instructional subjects are covered. The 1,866 entries are not annotated. Both published and unpublished materials (many of the latter available from ERIC) are…

These two issues include articles under the following headings: themes in education, curriculum and instruction, and theories, practicals, and experiences. The first issue includes: "Parent Participation: The Implications of a Complaint Case" (Ping Man Wong and Antony Yuk Cheung Chan); "Education for New Arrivals and Multicultural…

The six issues in this volume include the following articles: "Preview of TESOL 2001" (Adelaide Heyde Parsons); "Six Internet Pioneers Teach English to the World" (Dennis Oliver, Randall Davis, Elaine Hoter, Charles Kelly, Dave Sperling, and Ruth Vilmi); "Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom" (Rebecca Oxford);…

Fourteen conference papers on classroom techniques for second language teaching are presented, including: "Cooperative Learning at the Post-Secondary Level in Japan" (Steve McGuire, Patricia Thornton, David Kluge); "Shared Inquiry Fosters Critical Thinking Skills in EFL Students" (Carol Browning, Jerold Halvorsen, Denise…