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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning and Research Branch. – 1979
To assist Cree-speaking native Canadian students in English language acquisition, the Mighty Moose Reading Project was initiated with a threefold aim: to develop program materials designed specifically as supplementary beginning reading materials for native students; to determine the effectiveness of the materials in improving reading skills, oral…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Beginning Reading, Canada Natives, Cree
Download full textFotos, Sandra, Ed.; Jungheim, Nicholas O., Ed. – JALT Journal, 2001
The two issues in this volume of the "JALT Journal" contain the following articles: "Comprehension and Production Practice in Grammar Instruction: Does Their Combined Use Facilitate Second Language Acquisition?" (Takeo Tanaka); "Professional Development and the JET Program: Insights and Solutions Based on the Sendai City…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Processes, Communication Apprehension, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. Assessment and Evaluation Program. – 1999
These workshop materials, meant to accompany the trainer's manual to "Assessment: A Development Guidebook for Teachers of English-Language Learners," consist of individual sheets suitable for making clear transparencies and paper copies as needed for overhead transparencies, workshop participant handouts, and examples of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Lituanas, P. M.; Jacobs, G. M.; Renandya, W. A. – Online Submission, 2001
This article reports a six-month study that used a matched-pairs pre-test, post-test control group design to measure the relative effectiveness of extensive reading with remedial reading students in a Philippines secondary school (n = 60). Ninety percent of students at the school come from low-income homes where reading materials tend to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness
Jewett, Arno, Ed.; Mersand, Joseph, Ed.; Gunderson, Doris V., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The purpose of this bulletin is to help teachers, supervisors, administrators, and other educators improve the English skills of culturally different youth. In an effort to gather available research and successful classroom practices, the Secondary Schools Section of the U.S. Office of Education invited a group of leaders to participate in a 3-day…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Language Aptitude, Reading Skills, Reading Programs
van Naerssen, Margaret; Pressley, Joyce – 1991
The problems encountered in implementing an intensive summer course in English for specific purposes, designed to prepare students for graduate study in urban planning, urban design, and architecture, are discussed by the course's language and content specialists. Positive course results included development of useful classroom communication…
Descriptors: Architecture, Classroom Communication, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Hagen, Stacey, Ed.; And Others – 1990
The Washington State Core Competencies Project is designed to implement competency-based adult education in the state's 38 adult basic education programs. A model curriculum was developed and field-tested over several years. The resulting curriculum outline of core competencies for English as a Second Language, level 2, is presented here. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design
Hagen, Stacey, Ed.; And Others – 1990
The Washington State Core Competencies Project is designed to implement competency-based adult education in the state's 38 adult basic education programs. A model curriculum was developed and field-tested over several years. The resulting curriculum outline of core competencies for English as a Second Language, level 3, is presented here. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design
Cumming, Alister H., Ed. – 1994
A collection of essays on bilingualism and its relationship to development of reading and writing skills includes: "Awareness of Text Structure: Effects on Recall" (Patricia L. Carrell); "Second-Language Readers' Memory for Narrative Texts: Evidence for Structure-Preserving Top-Down Processing" (Yukie Horiba, Paul W. van den…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project examined the nature of the language and learning difficulties that black Standard Three (Std 3, or grade 5) children in South Africa experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium of instruction and learning, a policy known as "delayed immersion." This report focuses on the first major…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Youth, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
Dubin, Fraida; Olshtain, Elite – 1986
The guide for developing curricula and instructional materials is intended for use in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction and instruction in other second/foreign languages. It presents an overview of the course designer's task and some available techniques. First, assessment of educational needs and relevant societal factors is…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Course Organization
Mitchell, Douglas E.; Destino, Tom; Karam, Rita – 1997
In response to concern about the effectiveness of programs for English-as-a-Second-Language students in California's schools, the Santa Ana Unified School District, in which over 80 percent of students are limited-English-proficient (LEP) conducted a study of both the operations and effectiveness of the district's language development program,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Change Strategies, Data Processing
Brown, Janet R.; And Others – 1992
The Developmental Studies Department (DSD) at Rockland Community College (RCC), in Suffern, New York, provides courses and services to assist students lacking college-level skills in the areas of reading, writing, mathematics, study skills, and English. An additional pilot project, the RCC/Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) has…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Bernhardt, Stephen A., Comp.; Meyer, Paul R., Comp. – 1991
This publication consists of materials produced by Step Ahead, a National Workplace Literacy Demonstration Project--a partnership between New Mexico State University and Memorial Medical Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico. The project abstract is a one-page summary of facts, objectives, and procedures related to this project, which provided onsite…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Allied Health Occupations, Basic Skills
Florida International Univ., Miami. Coll. of Education. – 1989
The guide contains a competency-based English-as-a-Second-Language/literacy curriculum, including coordinated lesson plans for three instructional levels (beginning, intermediate, pre-literacy) and an employability counseling component. The curriculum is arranged in an order reflecting the job search process. The competencies in the curriculum are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, Difficulty Level
