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Donmall, B. Gillian – 1985
The need to prepare teachers in both language awareness and other content-area courses is discussed. The role of language awareness and related activities in all areas of the curriculum, including subject-specific courses, study skills, and native, foreign, and community languages is examined. Specific suggested areas of training for teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, English Instruction
Download full textStevenson, Jose – 1987
The Mobile Education Teams (METs) Program of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools instructs limited English proficiency (LEP) adolescents. Funded by a 3-year Title VII grant and implemented in six intermediate and junior high schools beginning in 1984-85, METs provide intensive elementary-level English, reading, and mathematics…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedMcManus, Ginger; Kirby, Dan – English Journal, 1988
Suggests that peer group instruction is one of the most significant benefits to have emerged from the process approach to writing instruction. Presents a teacher's classroom research on the peer group response method. (ARH)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, English Instruction, Grade 10
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1994
In 1994-95, all Illinois public colleges and universities and some Illinois private colleges and universities are required to submit reviews of their baccalaureate programs in education (primarily teacher preparation programs) and academic programs at all levels in the fields of English language/literature and mathematics. This package of…
Descriptors: College English, College Mathematics, Degrees (Academic), Educational Assessment
Fernandez, Georgina – 1985
In spring 1984, six English instructors at Clinton Community College (CCC), in New York State, were asked to incorporate an instructional unit on library skills into their freshman English classes. To assess the overall effectiveness of the unit, a study was conducted comparing the course grades and test scores of the students who received library…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, English Instruction
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1982
The Bronx (New York City) Multidiscipline Special Education Bilingual Program was designed to supplement the basic educational program for handicapped students with limited English proficiency in the Bronx Special Education Region. In 1980-81, the program served 132 Hispanic handicapped students in nine public and two private schools. Program…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Kansas City School District, MO. – 1985
The School Within A School (SWAS) Program is designed to help low-achieving high school students improve their academic achievement. This evaluation examined five program aspects: implementation; achievement; self concept; perceptions of students, teachers, coordinators and principals; and student attendance. Student team learning and individual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Compensatory Education, English Instruction
Peer reviewedMyers, Miles – Education and Urban Society, 1994
Reviews efforts to develop national content standards for teaching English. Today's standards movements are distinguished from earlier efforts in that the learner is recognized as active, the meaning is socially and historically contingent, and the purpose is the development of language for political power and the creation and appreciation of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Ulanoff, Sharon – 1993
The Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes Center has identified seven projects in the southwestern United States and one in Massachusetts that exemplify the educational practices important in today's ethnolinguistically diverse classrooms. Preliminary findings indicate that each of these programs contains several critical elements…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student)
Castaneda, Lillian Vega – 1992
The Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes Center conducts Improving Programs of Schools Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Populations, a survey to identify programs that have successfully addressed the needs of ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse students. This report presents a cross-sites…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student), Educational Improvement
Brown, Ann; And Others – 1983
Research recommendations concerning learning and development that are appropriate for research and development centers supported by the National Institute of Education (NIE) are offered to the director of NIE. Mission statements are presented on the following areas: literacy (reading, writing, and English skill development); learning and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research, Educational Technology, English Instruction
Guthrie, Larry F.; Guthrie, Grace Pung – 1988
This final report evaluates California State University's (CSU) Summer Bridge and Intensive Learning Experience (ILE) programs, which are remedial/developmental programs providing basic skills instruction, orientation, and advisement to entering CSU students at risk of dropping out. The underlying objective of both programs is to increase the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills
Perkins, Kate – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2005
The National Reporting System (NRS) was developed to report the outcomes of English language, literacy and numeracy provision in Australia's vocational education and training and adult and community education sectors, and in labour market programs. Since its introduction, however, the NRS has been used as more than a reporting tool. It has also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Standard Setting, Numeracy
El-Koumy, Abdel-Salam Abdel-Khalek – Online Submission, 2004
The aim of this book is to provide a compromise between past and present theories of language teaching and learning. The book is organized into six main parts. In the first part, the author highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both the skills-based approach and the whole-language approach. He then presents a theory that emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, English Instruction, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Pritchard, Florence Fay – 1993
This paper is the introduction to a workshop session demonstrating how English and language-arts teachers can teach critical thinking and writing simultaneously to students in grades 4 through 14. It describes how to transform specific skills into frames for critical thinking and writing such as: (1) explaining; (2) categorizing; (3) comparing and…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking
