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Direct linkRunfola, Tracy; Carolino, Barbara; Lara, Julia; Pande, Gitanjali; Spaulding, Shelley – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2004
In 1995, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) launched the High-Poverty Schools Initiative. It focuses on building the capacity of state education agency officials and their local partners to implement various federal education programs aimed at improving outcomes for students in high-poverty schools. The overall initiative goal is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, State Departments of Education, Public Agencies, Poverty
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
This bulletin reports the work of a committee appointed by Dr. John J. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education, to study the many problems of school work with adult illiterates. The committee was formed following the National Literacy Conference in Washington, D.C., January 11-14, 1924, whose work included formulating practical programs…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Program Development, Textbooks
Peer reviewedCorbluth, J. D. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Peer reviewedCortez, Emilio G. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Fleming, Gerald – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Motivation
Peer reviewedKruppa, Ulrich – Zielsprache Englisch, 1973
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Grammar Translation Method, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedNey, James W. – College Composition and Communication, 1973
Describes how behavioral and cognitive psychologies regarding language learning can be synthesized in the teaching of written composition to students learning English as a second language. (MM)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
Grauert, Wilfried – Neueren Sprachen, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Organization, French, Intensive Language Courses
Peer reviewedHendrickson, R. H. – English Record, 1971
Reviews the difficulties teachers face in evaluating the competence of their students in using English, and suggests recognition of the influences that may inhibit language performance in the classroom when the speaker comes from a minority sub-culture. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Diagnosis, English (Second Language), English Curriculum
Feeley, Joan T. – Elem Engl, 1970
Includes an 18-item bibliography on reading instruction for non-English-speaking first graders. (RD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedSorensen, Knud – Paedagogica Historica, 1971
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Educational History, Educational Practices, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLarew, Leonor A. – Reading Improvement, 1971
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), English Instruction, English Literature
Schrand, Heinrich – Fremdsprachlicher Unterricht, 1971
Special issue devoted to foreign language instruction in adult education. (WB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, English (Second Language), Evening Programs
Peer reviewedCooper, Robert L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Rejects the assumptions which underlie the audiolingual method and offers two alternative propositions: (1) successful use of language requires the acquisition of communicative as well as linguistic competence and (2) first and second language learning are analogous processes. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Instruction
Prator, Clifford H. – TESOL Quart, 1969
This paper attempts to sum up, in non-technical terms, the essential differences between the acquisition of a first and a second language. It represents a conviction that a large number of the key concepts of TESOL can be drawn out of this type of comparison. The opening paper presented to the Pre-Convention Study Groups at the TESOL Convention,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cultural Background, English (Second Language)
