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Hui, Leng – Forum, 1997
Describes an a second-language-learning activity called "Speak Out" that students have used successfully to achieve fluency in the English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. "Speak Out" is a 30-minute speaking activity that works well in an integrative skill program. The objective is to improve students' fluency through…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
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Miller, Kristyan Spelman – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Describes an approach to the study of writing processes based on the analysis of temporal aspects of the writing event. The approach involves recording the keystroke presses made during production of a text using a word processor, and analyzing such features as pausing, fluency, and revision activity. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, Higher Education, Language Fluency
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Holliday, Adrian – Language Teaching Research, 1997
Discusses what makes good communicative English language teaching by focusing on an ethnographic study of six undergraduate university lessons. The lessons were observed while carrying out consultancy work in India and China. Suggests that cultural continuity between traditional and innovative forms of instruction emerges as an essential feature…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
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Chew, Kheng-Suan – English for Specific Purposes, 2005
This research note reports on a study to investigate what English language skills are used by new graduate employees in their daily work in various departments in four banks in Hong Kong. Through interviews with 16 new bank employees across these four banks and the use of questionnaires, my aim was to determine what proportion of their daily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Employees, English (Second Language)
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Chiriboga, David A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2004
This article examines a subset of acculturation items pertaining to language fluency and use and to interpersonal relationships. This study included 3,050 Mexican American elders aged 65 to 99, randomly sampled from five states in the southwestern United States. A standard acculturation inventory was used as the source for two factor-derived…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Language Fluency, Acculturation, Test Validity
Hall, Stephen – 1997
Pronunciation teaching of the segmental aspects needs to be balanced with the inclusion of learner awareness of stress, rhythm, intonation and meaningful production. Yet many formats for pronunciation teaching do not place these skills and an awareness of the suprasegmental features in either a communicative format or a specific speaking…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Fluency
Rodriguez, Cecilia M. – 1991
Increased international business and technological advances that speed business communication are affecting the expectations that business has for translators. More companies are asking translation agencies to translate such items as English business letters, advertising campaigns, flyers, brochures, and technical manuals into other languages,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Costs
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed. – 1993
Three articles on near-native English language proficiency are presented. "Attitudes to English Usage: A Comparison between Native and Non-Native Speakers," by Ann-Christin Miemois, reports on a study of attitudes toward usage of certain lexical items in English in four distinct situations. Subjects were natives of Finland and New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Language and Language Education: Working Papers of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, 1992
Papers included in this compilation are "Late Hebrew Immersion at Mt. Scopus College Melbourne: Towards Complete Hebrew Fluency for Jewish Day School Students" (S. C. Lorch, T. F. McNamara, E. Eisikovits); "Languages in Schools: Policy and Practice" (Roger A. Peddie); "Models and Sociolinguistic Factors in Some Victorian…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Hebrew
Mertz, Elizabeth – 1982
A folk theory of the effect of language on thought underlies decisions made in U.S. courts regarding language law. Previous work on folk theory has shown an internal structuring by which a premise entails subsequent terms, consistent within the framework of the folk theory's logic. An analysis of metapragmatic statements in U.S. case law materials…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Citizenship, Comprehension, Court Litigation
Garcia, Homer D. C. – 1981
In 1977, an exploratory survey examined the relative effects of family and offspring cultural maintenance upon offspring psychological characteristics and college achievement, using the responses of 1,573 Chicano college students from Texas to a mailed questionnaire. The hypothesis was that holding family income constant, high family Spanish usage…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Bilingualism, College Students
Matthews, Tom – 1979
Some of the variations in reading achievement and fluency levels among bilingual students enrolled in the Seattle Public Schools are explained, and an examination of the effects of special language services (English as a second language and bilingual subject matter instruction) is emphasized. A model is presented which examines the relationships…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asian Americans, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education
Low, Anni – 1980
In an effort to comply with bilingual instruction requirements, school districts throughout California will soon be involved in testing vast numbers of children to determine language proficiency and language dominance. Many language tests will require a child to repeat a sentence or a phrase in exactly the same manner that is stated by an examiner…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Comprehension, Dialects
Pradl, Gordon M. – 1979
This booklet is one of a series of teacher-written curriculum publications launched by the Bay Area Writing Project, each focusing on a different aspect of the teaching of composition. The basic principles of literary cohesion (the way a text hangs together) are discussed and exercises are suggested to help students increase their sensitivity to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Fluency
Cartier, Francis A. – 1979
Some questions concerning foreign language learning and research topics are considered. One discussion question is why education and speech communication research has neglected the special case of second language communication as a source of information on the communication process in general. The need for research into the functional, operational…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Assessment, Error Analysis (Language)
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