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Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1992
This handbook is designed to help Alberta (Canada) elementary school administrators facilitate efficient and successful experiences for French immersion students receiving formal English language instruction for the first time. In question-and-answer format, it discusses briefly the following issues: what administrators need to know about students…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Woodruff, Barbara Bilson, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1989
With each issue focusing on different themes, volume 16 of "Inside English" looks at writing programs and critical thinking, developmental writing and the plight of part-time faculty, teaching literature and study abroad programs, and English as a Second Language (ESL) and English programs. In addition to regular columns on the English Council of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, College English, College Faculty
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1988
The California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) has two major components: curriculum development projects, focusing on improving the secondary school curriculum, and diagnostic testing projects, focusing on the assessment of students abilities in writing and mathematics. Both components involve partnerships between K-12 districts and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Diagnostic Tests
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1986
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 13 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Paulston, Christina Bratt; Bruder, Mary Newton – 1976
This text is a practical manual for teachers of English as a second language, in particular teachers of foreign students in American universities. The book is divided into six sections, according to the six language skills to be taught. The first section discusses the teaching of grammar and includes a classification and a typology of structural…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1978
This issue contains five articles dealing with teaching English as a second language. "Distinctive Features of Written English" by L. E. Henrichson discusses the special instruction that is needed if a student is to learn to write well. "In-Class Dynamics in TESL" by J. B. Alter presents a technique for spontaneous oral duscussion on newly…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conference Reports
BOTTIGLIA, WILLIAM F. – 1963
THESE REPORTS OF THE WORKING COMMITTEES OF THE 1963 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ANALYZE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING LANGUAGE TEACHERS AS THEY PROGRESS FROM THE AUDIOLINGUAL ORIENTATION OF THE ELEMENTARY LEVELS TO THE INTERMEDIATE PHASE IN A CONTINUUM OF LANGUAGE STUDY. IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER WHETHER BILINGUALISM CAN BE…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Conference Reports
Linnarud, Moira – 1975
The compositions or essay tests of second language learners are difficult to mark and evaluate. It has been suggested that the only way to achieve objectivity is to abolish all criteria except formal correctness, as it is the only one that can be measured and statistically evaluated. Attempts have been made to establish other criteria. A varied…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: teaching freshman college English through the use of black female autobiographies; the analysis and production of television commercials, gaming, and self-paced…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Literature, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
Lindstrom, Phyllis; And Others – 1973
The English curriculum comprising the document was written specifically for students deficient in composition by a team of English teachers from a Minnesota high school, in response to the expressed needs of their colleagues in the Robbinsdale area. The content is fitted into a career-related schema, ungraded and experience-based. For example, in…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides, Discovery Learning
Diller, Janelle – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed for the second of two companion courses to help adult students build writing skills by emphasizing writing as a process involving generating ideas through revising, editing, and self-critiquing and by teaching basic grammar, punctuation, and spelling…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audience Awareness, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1986
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) evaluated the writing ability of American students in 1974, 1979, and 1984. Data from 95,000 students were examined for trends over this 10-year period. Writing tasks, including informative, persuasive, and literary or imaginative writing were administered to national samples of students aged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Creative Writing, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Talbert, Willisteen – 1982
Developed during a project designed to provide a continuous, competency-based line of vocational training in business and office education programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels, this package consists of an instructor's guide and learning module for a course on Business English. Various aspects of implementing and articulating…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Articulation (Education), Business Communication, Business English
Thompson, Loraine – 1993
This booklet provides practical exploration of the use of narrative in the classroom with students and in teachers' personal and professional development. The various narrative forms are described in boxes throughout the booklet and include letter writing, storytelling, autobiographical accounts and several others. There are four "Your…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1985
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 12 include the following…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
