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Download full textKagan, Spencer – 1995
Language Acquisition is determined by a complex interaction of a number of critical input, output, and context variables. This digest examines these variables and reveals that cooperative learning has a dramatic positive impact on almost all of the variables critical to language acquisition. The examination looks at how cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Calderon, Margarita Espino – 1999
This digest discusses a project conducted in the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, that sought to integrate effective practices in literacy education, an empirically based cooperative learning model, and a classroom management model to help teachers develop the English and Spanish language proficiency of their students. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Pereira, Carolyn – 1993
The growing population of "English-as-second language" (ESL) students in the United States need to learn how to cope with the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the U.S. Because of this, civic education should pervade the curriculum for ESL students. This ERIC digest treats five facets of civic education for ESL students: (1)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Citizenship Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development
Marshall, Brigitte – 2002
This report discusses efforts in adult English as a Second Language (ESL) education to link language instruction to workforce and civic skills (skills needed for successful participation in the community). It looks at the social forces that underlie these efforts (shifts in the U.S. economy, welfare reform, accountability requirements, and learner…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Learning, Civics, Classroom Techniques
Holt, Daniel D., Ed. – 1993
Essays on cooperative learning focus on the use of this strategy to address the special needs of linguistically and culturally diverse student groups in elementary and secondary education. The volume contains several essays on theory, principles, and techniques of cooperative learning and a series of model instructional units for a variety of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design
Sutman, Francis X.; And Others – 1993
New teaching methods and curricula that show promise in their ability to provide limited English proficient (LEP) students with a good education in both science and English are discussed and illustrated. Discriminatory practice has led to the clustering of LEP students into low ability tracks without consideration of their actual abilities and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning
