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Using Visuals to Help the Second Language Learner.
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Sinatra, Richard – Reading Teacher, 1981
Notes that three picture story formats-- sequential organization, spatial organization, and compare and contrast organization--provide right-brain hemispheric input and stimulate verbal production of students learning a second language. (FL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning
A Workshop Tried and True: Language Experience for Bilinguals.
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Feeley, Joan T. – Reading Teacher, 1979
A workshop for primary teachers demonstrated the effectiveness of the language experience approach with bilingual students. (DD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
All the Angles of Idiom Instruction.
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May, Ann Baldwin – Reading Teacher, 1979
Presents practical strategies for helping bilingual students understand idioms and figurative expressions in their second language. (MKM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Idioms
The Mexican Approach to Developing Bilingual Materials and Teaching Literacy to Bilingual Students.
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Miller, Robert – Reading Teacher, 1982
Describes the rationale and methods used in Mexico for developing and using bilingual materials for both primary school students and adults. Presents a modification of the system that is designed to improve native-language skills while teaching English as a second language. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language)
Adapting Language Experience to Reading for Bilingual Pupils.
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Wiesendanger, Katherine Davis; Birlem, Ellen Davis – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes language experience activities which tie concepts, vocabulary, sentence structure, and beginning reading skills together and which are appropriate for the bilingual child. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Literacy in Rural Bolivia--Implications for Bilingual Programs.
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Engelbrecht, Guillermina – Reading Teacher, 1980
Outlines teaching strategies developed in an inservice program for elementary teachers in rural areas of Bolivia; notes the importance of developing children's oral language skills, using the local environment as the basis for language experience lessons, and including community study in the curriculum. Presents ideas useful to teachers in other…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Study, Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary Education