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Download full textBarbara, Leila, Ed.; Rajagopalan, Kanavillil, Ed. – Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 2001
These two issues of volume 17, include the following articles: "The Competing Motivation Model in the Functional Domains of Negation" (M. Angelica Furtado da Cunha); "Discursive Resonance and Politeness in Reading and Writing Practices" (Silvana Serrani Infante); "The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Brazilian…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Smeyers, Paul, Ed.; And Others – Pedagogisch Tijdschrift, 1994
This 6-issue, complete year of a Belgian-Dutch collaboration offers complete articles on pedagogical subjects, some with an English-language summary; reviews of new Dutch-language books; and titles from related Dutch-language journals. Articles include: "On the Policies of the Journal of Pedagogy" (P. Smeyers); "Pedagogic…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Parkinson, Brian, Ed.; Mitchell, Keith, Ed. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2000
This issue contains seven articles, including the following: "Dictionary, Systemicity, Motivation" (Tom Bartlett); "The Nature of the Initial State Zulu L2 Grammar and Subsequent Interlanguage Development" (Sibusisiwe Dube); "Translating the Folk" (Bryan Fletcher); "The Acquisition of the English Article System…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)
Scope, 1991
Television is widely used in Ontario (Canada) public schools and is appreciated for making teaching more effective. Yet studies on the effectiveness of television as a learning tool outside of the classroom are ambivalent: many have claimed television to have a negative effect on learning, while others show neutral or moderately positive effects.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Childrens Television, Comprehension, Educational Television
Letras: Homenaje a Lucia Fraca de Barrera, 2001
Articles focus on the following: reading comprehension and writing; an approach to argumentative discourse writing; a didactic experiment on the construction of two academic texts; Denzil Romero's work; communication and its implication--a vision from the teaching of the mother tongue; orthography/spelling in the Real Academia Espanola (RAE)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Allison, Desmond M., Ed.; Leung, Lily S. K., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "'Good' and 'Poor' Writing and Writers: Studying Individual Performance as a Part of Test Validation" (Desmond Allison, Evelyn Cheung); "To Test or Not To Test: That Is the Question" (Keith Tong, Rose Chan, Jo Lewkowicz); "Testing Listening…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
Lectura y Vida: Revista Latinoamericana de Lectura, 1997
The four issues of this journal, written entirely in Spanish, are intended for reading teachers. The first issue focuses on the role of school in the development of readers and writers and contains articles discussing the results of an investigation into the validity of the idea of "level" when measuring students' comprehension of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Asian Literacy & Reading Bulletin, 1988
This bulletin was founded at the eleventh World Congress on Reading, held in London in 1986. Its subject is Literacy Education in Asia and its objective is to "enable different National Councils to share information about literacy in their own region and how problems are met." (WTB) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Descriptors: Adult Education, English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Andren, Birgitta, Comp. – School Research Newsletter, 1989
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) conducted several surveys between 1964 and 1985. Sweden has taken part in nine of the surveys. This paper reports the survey results briefly. Major sections included are: (1) Swedish results for all IEA studies; (2) science tests in 1970 and 1983; (3) mathematics…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Economic Factors, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Marklund, Inger, Ed.; Hanse, Mona-Britt, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1984
Successive studies conducted in Sweden have shown that linguistic awareness is an important prerequisite of learning to read. In one survey that measured the various aspects of the linguistic awareness of 6-year-old children, a very close connection was found between preschool linguistic awareness and reading proficiency in school. Another study…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Dyslexia, Elementary Education
Dickerson, Wayne B., Ed.; And Others – Issues and Development in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1986
This document consists of the premier issue of an annual international journal on the acquisition and teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL). Its six articles and their contributors are as follows: "Adapting and Applying Levinson's Concept of the 'Dispreferred Second' to the Review of the ESL Materials" (Lawrence F. Bouton);…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Da Que Hablar, 1995
This Spanish-Embassy-produced document consists of the three issues of a Spanish language and culture newsletter for use in Spanish-language classrooms. Each issue contains reprinted articles on current events, both in Spain and around the world; articles on Spanish culture, geography, and famous people; and games to play for learning the Spanish…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Cultural Awareness, Current Events
Da que hablar, 1994
This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter published during 1994. Issues contain current events articles in Spanish and classroom language learning activities based on those articles. The articles are brief, most reproduced from other publications. Topics include celebrity news, the arts, Spanish culture and geography, sports, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Authors, Class Activities, Cultural Awareness
Kresovich, Brant M. – Ryudai Review of Language & Literature, 1988
The study describes ten discussion activities designed to improve the communicative abilities of Japanese learners of English based on cultural instruction goals. The activities target intermediate and advanced students, but teachers can modify the lessons for false beginners. All exercises stress speaking and listening. They focus on topics…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
Davies, Alan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1993
"Edinburgh Working Papers" is intended to show a yearly cross-section of current work in Edinburgh's Department of Applied Linguistics and to elicit reactions and criticism. Articles in this volume include the following: "MSC Common Room Conversations: Topics and Terms" (Joan Cutting); "Speculation and Empiricism in Applied Linguistics" (Alan…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Case Studies, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
