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Download full textGonzález, Rosa María – Online Submission, 2003
This report summarizes evaluation results of AISD's Bilingual Education/ESL programs for 2002-2003.
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fryer, T. Bruce, Ed.; Medley, Frank W., Jr., Ed. – 1986
Selected papers from the 1984 and 1985 meetings of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching include: "Perspectives on Proficiency: 1985"; "Developmental Stages in Functional Language Proficiency"; "Cultural Understanding, Oral Proficiency, and Study Abroad: Getting It All Together"; "Developing Functional…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Lee, Vera – 1983
The development and coordination of interdisciplinary immersion programs in French and Spanish at Boston College are chronicled, and some issues of federal grant support are discussed. The programs, currently involving the history, theology, philosophy, fine arts, management, and sociology departments and soon including political science, consist…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Business Administration Education, Church Related Colleges, College Second Language Programs
Ward, Ben, Ed. – Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication & Education, 2002
These 12 issues of the journal include articles on such topics as the following: classical languages; early literacy; ancient languages; study abroad; teacher training; dialects; computer uses in education; classroom techniques; illustrated dictionaries for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students; communication through poetry; bilingual…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Bilingual Education, Classical Languages, Classroom Techniques
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2007
These Proceedings document an educational research forum held at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) on December 12, 2007. Table of contents and 23 research studies of high school teaching are included. Each paper contains a literature review, methodology, results, conclusions, and references. Studies include: (1) Cultural…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Cultural Awareness, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1989
The Texas framework for modern and classical language programs in the elementary and secondary schools is intended to (1) establish a philosophy for a proficiency-based sequential language program; (2) outline the overall language program as specified in state rules and legislative mandates; and (3) describe expected student proficiency levels and…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Class Size, Classical Languages, Cognitive Processes
Lambert, Richard D. – 1980
The benefits of learning a foreign language and arguments in support of language requirements in the college curriculum are discussed. The arguments concerning the acquisition of indirect benefits not inherent in the language skill itself through the learning of a foreign language prove inconvincing and only serve to divert one's attention from…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Ability, College Curriculum, Core Curriculum
McDonald, Frederick J.; And Others – 1977
Teachers and students in the English as a second language classes at the West New York (New Jersey) Adult Learning Center participated in a study to determine which patterns of classroom interaction and student characteristics were most highly related to the acquisition of oral proficiency in English. Differences in teaching styles and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Adult Basic Education, Adults
Benseler, David P., Ed. – 1976
The forty papers that make up the second part of the proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign language teaching and linguistic theory: the interdisciplinary approach to second language instruction, individualized instruction, foreign…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages
Fryer, T. Bruce, Ed.; Medley, Frank W., Jr., Ed. – 1988
Papers included in this volume from a conference on language teaching include the following: "The Symposium on the Evaluation of Foreign Language Proficiency: Challenges to the Profession" (Albert Valdman); "Conversion to a Proficiency Oriented Curriculum at the University Level" (Carmen Villegas Rogers, William H. Heflin, John…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communication Apprehension, Competency Based Education
Peer reviewedLearning Languages: The Journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning, 1996
The three numbers of the new journal contain these articles: "Content-Related Teaching Through Distance Learning: A Viable Alternative?" (Zoe E. Louton); "Teacher as Researcher: Motivating an Eighth Grade Spanish Class" (Emily Francomano); "Traveling to South America on the Internet" (Margaret Reardon); "U.S.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Attitudes, Bilingualism, Case Studies
Language Association Bulletin, 1990
This document consists of the five issues of the "Language Association Bulletin" prepared for the 1989-1990 publishing year. The issues contain articles on a variety of subjects related to second language instruction, educational planning, and language planning. Topics include: articulation of foreign language education in New York…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Cultural Context, Cultural Education
Ervin, Gerard L., Ed. – 1981
Papers in this volume on individualized instruction in foreign languages include: (1) "Individualized Instruction and 'Back to Basics': Are They Compatible?" by Howard B. Altman; (2) "Individualized Instruction in French at Northwestern University" by Margaret Sinclair Breslin; (3) "An Individualized French Program for…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conversational Language Courses
Des Harnais, Gaston, Ed. – 1988
Eighty-nine conference papers are presented in 10 sections: (1) language and cultural factors in conducting international business (qualifications for success as an international manager, staffing of international departments, role of second language proficiency, and international management concepts); (2) interdisciplinary language and business…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Area Studies, Business Administration Education
