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Rivas, Michele – 1976
The objective of this course is to enable students to negotiate a business transaction directly in English. The proposed setting is a conference room and the interlocutors are upper middle class professional people. The learners are students of business administration in France who already possess some knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses
Download full textChoy, Sarojni; McNickle, Cathy; Clayton, Berwyn – 2001
Since little research existed about services for online learners in Australia, a national study was conducted to explore the expectations and experiences of online learners in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. Online learners enrolled with various Registered Training Organizations (RTOs) from the VET sector were contacted for…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Security, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content
Valdivieso, Jorge – 1993
Spanish language training at the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management is discussed, focusing on the instructional materials and classroom techniques used in advanced Spanish conversation classes. While traditional materials (dialogues, dictation, literature, mass media, video- and audiotapes) and learning activities (recitation,…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs
McBeath, Clare; Nicholson, Lindsay – 2001
The research methods selected for an evaluation of courses in vocational education and training (VET) teacher education at Curtin University (Western Australia) were examined. The university hired an outside research body from a different TAFE college to conduct the evaluation because Curtin University's courses in postschool teacher education,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations
Johns, T. F. – 1976
The materials described here are used to teach English for special purposes at the University of Birmingham. Using the communicative or functional approach to language teaching, they deal with a "common core" of skills, leaving for later in the program special sub-units relating these skills to texts, tasks and problems peculiar to a particular…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Pasko, Edward Anthony – 1992
This handbook provides guidelines and forms for evaluating second language teachers' performance and second language programs. The first section, which addresses the supervision and evaluation of language teachers, outlines basic principles (supervisory goals, evaluator attitudes, supervisory visits, and follow-up conferences), gives instructions…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
Askov, Eunice; Simpson, Mary – 2001
The possibility of creating an appropriate online learning environment for distance adult students was examined in a study of 22 Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) students' attitudes regarding the online version of a course offered as part of Penn State's masters of education program. The students completed surveys before, during, and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education
Schwab, R. G. – 2001
Two innovative approaches to delivering vocational education and training (VET) in schools were examined to identify ways of helping Australia's indigenous students achieve academic success by ensuring a close cultural fit between course content and the realities of local employment opportunities. The first VET-in-School program, which was located…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Education, Course Content, Cultural Pluralism
Saunders, John – 2001
In recent years, Australia's system of adult and community education (ACE) has broadened to include vocational learning as well as the hobby, enrichment, and personal development traditionally provided by ACE in the past. A study examined the views of ACE providers, ACE students, and industry organizations regarding ACE vocational education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students
