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Yuasa, Katsura – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2010
English education in Japan and Korea are similar in some respects. Although both countries are not completely but mostly monolingual societies, where citizens do not need English in their daily life, they have begun to realize the importance of English as a tool for international communication, and as a result their English education is becoming…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Communication (Thought Transfer), Textbooks, Foreign Culture
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Baker, Judy; Thierstein, Joel; Fletcher, Kathi; Kaur, Manpreet; Emmons, Jonathan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
To address the high cost of textbooks, Rice University's Connexions and the Community College Open Textbook Project (CCOTP) collaborated to develop a proof-of-concept free and open textbook. The proof-of-concept served to document a workflow process that would support adoption of open textbooks. Open textbooks provide faculty and students with a…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbooks, Community Colleges, Textbook Publication
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Joshi, R. Malatesha; Binks, Emily; Graham, Lori; Ocker-Dean, Emily; Smith, Dennie L.; Boulware-Gooden, Regina – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
Two reasons may be responsible for the poor grasp of the linguistic concepts related to literacy acquisition by preservice and in-service teachers: a lack of attention given to such concepts by teacher educators (college faculty members) and a lack of relevant information provided in the textbooks used in college courses. In an earlier study, the…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Textbook Evaluation
Chapelle, Carol A. – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
Language educators argue that foreign language learning in the United States should increase students' intercultural competence (IC), which will allow them to see relationships among different cultures, mediate across cultures, and critically analyze cultures including their own. Qualitative research investigating students experiences with such…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, French
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Izquierdo, Merce; Marquez, Conxita; Gouvea, Guaracira – Science Education International, 2008
The present study relates to a research line in didactics of science that focuses on the function that sign systems or semiotic modes have in communicative interactions in science classrooms. The study was conducted by 20 secondary and university science teachers who belong to the same research group LIEC ("Language and Science…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Education, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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Sutherland, LeeAnn M. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
This article describes an approach to developing student reading materials that support middle school learners in a project-based, inquiry curriculum for grades 6 through 8. Reading materials are designed to encourage sense making beyond the classroom, as students read and write about science as it takes place in a classroom and as it occurs in…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Middle Schools, Science Course Improvement Projects, Material Development
Kirschner, Paul A. – 1981
A series of eight manuals dealing with the triad text characteristics--learning processes--learning outcomes are being prepared for use by authors and editors as an aid in the design and writing of educational texts. These manuals are based upon a model for the functioning of text characteristics which in turn is part of a decision model for the…
Descriptors: Authors, Editing, Models, Textbook Preparation
Mullis, Ina V.S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Minnich, Chad A., Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Centurino, Victoria A.S., Ed.; Castle, Courtney E., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been instrumental in developing an analytical model for understanding the relationships between educational policy (the intended curriculum), classroom and instructional practices (the implemented curriculum), and educational learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Policy, Mathematics Curriculum, Science Curriculum
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Soler, Viviana – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
To prevent a paper from being discarded and ensure that it addresses the right audience, it must have a proper title that satisfies certain requirements. Writing the titles to scientific articles is therefore a challenging exercise that demands the use of various skills. Still, although the research paper is one of the most thoroughly studied…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Sentences
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Kuzu, Abdullah; Akbulut, Yavuz; Sahin, Mehmet Can – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2007
This paper introduces an evaluation tool prepared to examine the quality of visuals in course-books. The tool is based on Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (i.e. Generative Theory) and its principles regarding the correct use of illustrations within text. The reason to generate the tool, the development process along with the…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Visual Aids, Evaluation Methods, Textbook Content
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Saltmarsh, Sue – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
This article considers ideological, pedagogical and constitutive functions of children's picture books, with particular emphasis on the ways in which texts construct children and childhood in economic terms. Through an analysis of Lauren Childs' "Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent" and Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park", the article…
Descriptors: Social Class, Picture Books, Emergent Literacy, Childrens Literature
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
The text samples presented in this document primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. Additionally, they are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter in the text types required by the Standards. The choices should serve as…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Poetry, Fiction, Oral Reading
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Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
Readability formulas may detract from textbook quality. They overlook text and reader characteristics that affect comprehension. Moreover, average "readability levels" ignore wide variations within texts and between scales. The shortened sentences and simplified vocabulary used to conform texts to formulas sacrifice precision and connectedness,…
Descriptors: Coherence, Readability, Readability Formulas, Syntax
Parker, Barbara – American School Board Journal, 1979
Describes the work of Mel and Norma Gabler and their campaign against what they have determined are "improper" textbooks. (IRT)
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Textbook Selection, Textbook Standards
American School Board Journal, 1979
Provides a brief description of the current state of book censorship in Warsaw, Indiana, and of some of the community response to the censorship. (IRT)
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Textbook Selection, Textbook Standards
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