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Children and Foreign Languages. European Teachers' Seminar (Zagreb, Croatia, May 4-7, 1994). Report.
Vilke, Mirjana – 1995
A 4-day inservice teacher workshop, held so that teachers from a number of countries could share ideas and experiences about foreign language teaching at the elementary school level, is described. Speeches and events of each day are summarized briefly, and plenary sessions are chronicled in somewhat more detail. The latter include: a description…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Children, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
Download full textBrown, Christine – Perspective, 1995
The second language education program of Glastonbury, Connecticut, considered to be an exemplary program in a modest community, is profiled and discussed. Since the 1950s in this system, all students study at least one foreign language, beginning in elementary school. Course offerings, which have changed little since that time, include Spanish,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedTucker, G. Richard – Focus, 1980
A comparison of the salient characteristics of Canadian and United States bilingual education programs suggests various settings where it would be desirable to introduce children to schooling in their home language. These settings include: (1) the various ethnic communities in the United States, (2) multilingual developing countries, (3) parts of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Wilde, Francesca; Hardaker, Roger – FE Matters, 1997
This report examines issues and approaches to course design and evaluation within the higher education (HE) sector that are relevant and applicable to the United Kingdom's further education (FE) sector. Chapter 1 examines the increasing emphasis on student-centered learning in FE/HE and the implications of that trend. Discussed in chapter 2 are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives
PDF pending restorationLiteracy Works, 1994
The four issues of the journal, dated fall 1993 through summer 1994, contain articles on a variety of issues in literacy education. The first focuses on the role of literacy education in international economic development, and contains descriptions of a number of programs and strategies in both developing and industrialized nations. The second…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques
Mcdonald, Andrew, Ed.; Mcdonald, Gina, Ed. – Intensive English Programs Newsletter, 1996
This document consists of the six issues of this newsletter published during the two-year period summer 1994 to summer 1996. Intended for teachers of intensive English-as-a-Second-Language programs (IEPs), the issue contains the following articles: "The Inviolable Core of Intensive English Programs" (Fredricka L. Stoller); "Report…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bibliographies, Chinese, Classroom Techniques
