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Weinstein, Allen I. – 1974
The Federal Government needs people who can actually communicate in a foreign language, and our academic language programs are not producing such people. To solve this problem, there has to be a change in our basic attitudes and philosophies about language teaching and learning. Language courses must be transformed from passive exercises into…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, College Language Programs, Employment Opportunities, Federal Government
Gonzales, Eileen; Lezama, Juan – 1973
The author states that in those classrooms where the dual-language-model approach is implemented on a daily basis, second language acquisition takes place faster than in those classrooms where adherence to the model is ignored or used sporadically. According to this approach, each model functions independently utilizing teaching techniques common…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students
Dato, Daniel P. – 1971
This handbook serves as an introduction to the study of children's language development and as a supplementary aid in the training of research workers in the field of children's language learning. As a teaching aid, it is suggested this work be used with a film entitled "Psycholinquistic Research Techniques: Children's Language." Major chapters…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition

Cathro, Lorraine – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1987
Provides practical examples of how Native students of all ages can be helped to become more fluent in the English language and more skillful in writing through the classroom technique of daily dialogue journals. Expresses concerns of teachers about having students write daily entries. Includes sample journal entries. (NEC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Education, Dialogs (Language), Dialogs (Literary)

Boyle, Joseph – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Discusses the debate over whether English or Chinese should be the medium of instruction in Hong Kong schools. Recent Government efforts to further Chinese-medium education are outlined in the article, and consideration is given to the effects of the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997 on the future language of education in the island's schools.…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Change Agents, Chinese, Colonialism

Halmari, Helena – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1993
Examines the evaluative component in bilingual discourse in order to show that for the purpose of evaluation, the bilingual often switches from one language to the other. The study examines spontaneous stories, unplanned short narratives and conversational exchanges occurring in the recorded speech of two Finnish-English bilingual children. (32…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis

Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language Testing, 1997
In this study, planning time was manipulated as a variable in a trial administration of a semi-direct oral interaction test. Discourse analytic techniques were used to determine the nature and/or significance of difference in the elicited discourse across two conditions in terms of complexity and accuracy. Findings suggest that planning time may…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis

Daly, David A.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
Structure and consistency are important in treating adolescents who stutter. The speech-language pathologist's positive expectations have a powerful influence on clients' attitudes and belief in the possibility of progress. A program of both cognitive and self-instruction procedures and behavioral speech treatment strategies is recommended to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, Intervention, Language Fluency

Blood, Gordon W. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This article describes a cognitive-behavioral treatment package for relapse management in adolescents who stutter. The package includes game-based training techniques in problem solving, communication skills, and assertiveness; coping responses for stuttering episodes; and realistic expectations for fluency and relapse. Follow-up results with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Communication Skills

Garrod, Simon; and Clark, Aileen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Analysis of a large corpus (80 pairs of speakers) of 7-12 year olds suggests that 2 principles underlie the development of dialogue coordination skills. The seven to eight year olds establish a limited common dialogue lexicon, whereas older speakers show evidence of deep coordination processes aimed at establishing mutual intelligibility of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Students

Early, Margaret – Language Arts, 1990
Describes how the teaching of language and the teaching of subject matter knowledge can be brought together to empower students and to foster a positive attitude toward their own abilities. Illustrates a framework for integrating language development and the development of subject matter knowledge with a case study of one classroom in Vancouver,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Classroom Environment

Shrubshall, P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
To find out more about bilingual children's narrative discourse acquisition, study analyzes and compares the oral narrative discourse of bilingual and monolingual 5- to 10-year-olds in two ways. Uses Labov's taxonomy to measure evaluation, and shema theory to do an episodic analysis of elicited narratives. Argues that these frameworks serve to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis

Poulet, Gerard – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Evaluates the International Baccalaureate (IB), a preuniversity, post-16, 2-year diploma. The IB contains four language features: communication and interaction, responsibility and transparency, language skills and contents related to the aims, and integration of program and assessment. The program compares favorably at higher levels with…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Foreign Countries, French

Shresta, Tej B. – Foreign Language Annals, 1998
Describes how instruction and exposure contributed to the development of oral proficiency in English as a Second Language in mutually exclusive learning situations in Nepal. This study finds that both instruction and exposure contribute to second-language acquisition, the former promoting accuracy, the latter promoting fluency. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
There is a relatively strong focus in the stuttering literature on the desirability of selected alterations in parental speech and language style in the management of early stuttering. In this article, the existing research support for such recommendations is evaluated, together with relevant research from the normal language acquisition…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Outcomes of Treatment, Stuttering, Parenting Styles