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Laptander, Roza Ivanovna, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2016
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements, and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects, such as the…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Educational Policy, Language Minorities, Language of Instruction
Wing, Barbara H., Comp.; Mayewski, Sandi, Comp. – 1983
A handbook compiled for use in a one-day workshop on oral proficiency testing for teachers of Russian gives an overview of oral proficiency assessment principles and the available techniques. One section explains the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Educational Testing Service (ACTFL/ETS) Oral Proficiency Interview process and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Interviews, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Brown, James E.; Jahn, Gary R. – Computers and the Humanities, 1990
Explains the need for and operations of computerized instructional and drill programs for teaching beginning college-level Russian. Describes two such programs developed at the University of Minnesota. States that these programs provide individualized, out-of-class instruction and teach preproficiency semantic and morphological skills without…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Drills (Practice)
Grosse, Christine Uber; And Others – 1992
A study investigated: (1) the average language proficiency level as determined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) attained by 271 college seniors majoring in 6 languages (Spanish, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Italian); (2) current and projected uses of the ACTFL OPI by…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Seniors, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements
Chamot, Anna Uhl; And Others – 1990
This resource guide is designed to provide foreign language teachers with suggestions for helping students become better language learners. The four chapters of the guide for teaching speaking skills are as follows: (1) Teaching Learning Strategies (e.g., rationale for teaching, types, useful strategies, guidelines, instructional sequence, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, High Schools
Stryker, Stephen B., Ed.; Leaver, Betty Lou, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays contains articles on content-based foreign language courses at three levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced) and on foreign languages across the curriculum, including: "Content-Based Instruction: From Theory to Practice" (Stephen B. Stryker, Betty Lou Leaver); "Content-Based Instruction in a Basic Russian…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction