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Download full textUrban Agenda Issue Brief, 2000
The Experience Corps Program, which was initiated in 1996 in New York's South Bronx, connects retirees with children in elementary schools. The Experience Corps' volunteers, who are mostly lifelong residents of the South Bronx, work a minimum of 15 hours each week throughout the school year as mentors, tutors, and special assistants. Since 1997,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Community Programs, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students
Literacy Works, 1993
Four issues of the newsletter are included. Number 1, with the theme "Literacy and New Canadians," includes an editorial on the government's new language training programs, articles on programs for newcomers, news from the Prairie Literacy Institute, and short reports on a theater project and adolescent problems. Focusing on…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, American Indian Languages, Business, Canada Natives
Kimball, George H. – Journal of Research and Evaluation of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1981
This report presents evaluation results of an Oklahoma City Public Schools bilingual and multicultural education program to increase achievement levels and improve multicultural attitudes among Spanish speaking elementary school children of limited English proficiency. Results of English and Spanish tests of language proficiency in kindergarten to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism
Haskell, John F., Ed. – TESOL Newsletter, 1980
Six 1980 issues of the TESOL Newsletter are presented. Topics include the following: preparing a written paper for oral presentation (Fraida Dubin); current trends in teaching English as a second language (TESL) (Ruth Crymes); ESL syllabuses (Carlos Yorio); teaching Black English (Lorraine Goldman); the state of certification and employment within…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Media
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the English reading competence of Navajo students in public and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools; (2) the effect of syntax on readability for Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education
PDF pending restorationERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: various factors in terms of attitudes toward reading; the effect of group counseling on self-concept and reading achievement; the effect of three modes of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Discourse Analysis
English Teaching & Learning, 2003
These four issues contain the following articles: "A Case Documentation of English Instruction at the Elementary School Level: The Cross-Cultural Impact of Native Speaker Teachers" (Hsien-Chin Liou) [written in Chinese]; "A Collaborative Tale with Two Taiwanese EFL College Groups" (Feng-Ming Chi); "A Developmental Study on…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Differences
Brinton, Donna, Ed.; Ching, Roberta, Ed. – CATESOl Journal, 2001
This journal contains the following articles: "Teachers' Perceptions of the Supports and Resources Needed to Prepare English Language Learners for the Future" (Douglas Fisher); "Exploring the Learning Styles of Russian-Speaking Students of English as a Second Language" (Ann C. Wintergerst and Andrea DeCapua); "New Voices…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Rosenthal, Marilyn, Ed.; Beall, Kathleen R., Ed. – ESL Magazine, 2003
These four issues contain the following articles: "Corpus Linguistics: Discovering How We Use Language" (John Rosenthal); "Conversation Class: More than 'Just Talking'" (David Kehe and Peggy Kehe); "The Peace Project: A Personal Path to Overcoming Intolerance" (Stephanie Jones-Vo); "Developing the Reading Skills…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Environment, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education
Graves-Desai, Kelly, Ed. – Harvard Education Letter, 1999
This document is comprised of the six issues in volume 15 of the Harvard Education Letter, a bimonthly newsletter addressing current issues in elementary and secondary education. Articles in this volume include the following: (1) January-February--"Retention vs. Social Promotion: Schools Search for Alternatives" (Kelly), and "School…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Education, Brain, Classroom Techniques
English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1992
This document consists of the two issues of "English Teachers' Journal (Israel)" issued during 1992. Articles include: "Information for English Teachers"; "Announcements for Bagrut Teachers and Examiners"; "News from Educational Television" (Lily Vered and Others); "News from E.T.A.I. (English Teachers'…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1984
The four 1984 numbers of the journal contain articles on the following topics: reading and visual imagery; script preparation for accelerative learning and teaching; guided relaxation and baroque music's effects on student test performance; imagery in the creative process; suggestopedia in English as a second language (ESL) instruction;…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adult Learning, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Gunter, Jock – 1972
This document describes a literacy project in rural Ecuador using a modified version of Sylvia Ashton Warner's language experience approach. This method allows learners to approach written culture on their own terms by learning words important to their life, then transferring these works to sentences and stories. The approach reduces the rural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Daily Living Skills
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) black English and reading; (2) academic achievement, self-concept, and attitudes toward reading of students in bilingual and traditional programs; (3) cultural…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Black Dialects
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 40 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of oral reading of literature by teachers on reading attitudes of fourth grade students; (2) two instructional programs for teaching first grade…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basal Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
