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Murphy, Richard A. – 1995
The manual is designed to be used in workshops to train English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers and contains a series of exercises for teaching oral skills from dialogues to pronunciation, with some practice in listening comprehension included. An introductory section contains notes to workshop participants and facilitators. The exercises are…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language)
Shen, Yin-Shyan Irene – 1992
A study of social and cultural factors that affect the appropriateness of verbal expressions in different languages focuses on the comparative uses of three common expressions ("thank you, I'm sorry, excuse me" and their equivalents) in English and Chinese. First, the usage patterns of the three expressions are explained briefly, and the…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
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Nakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 1999
This paper investigates the effectiveness of students' real communication capabilities by investigating the target language use in monologue, dialogue, and conversational "multilogue" situations. It explores Japanese college students' oral English proficiency by focusing on the linguistic and pragmatic aspects in six types of teaching…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Nakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 2001
This paper examines the rating scale data of oral proficiency tests analyzed by a Rasch Analysis focusing on an item map and factor analysis. In discussing the item map, the difficulty order of six items and students' answering patterns are analyzed using descriptive statistics and measures of central tendency of test scores. The data ranks the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
Crossman, William – 1999
In the 21st century, VIVOs (voice-in/voice-out computers using visual displays but no text) will make written language obsolete. Written language is essentially a technology created 6,000 to 10,000 years ago for storing and retrieving information. VIVOs will perform this same function more easily, efficiently, and universally without requiring…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Futures (of Society)
Marlow, Patrick E. – 2001
This paper describes and discusses the University of Alaska's language programs for Eskimo-Aleut languages like Yupik and Inupiaq, offered through its Alaska Native Language Center. The paper is critical of the program's over-emphasis on the emphasis on teaching grammar and vocabulary. It argues that, though well intentioned when the framework for…
Descriptors: Athapascan Languages, Eskimos, Grammar, Instructional Improvement
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 2000
The report, entirely in French, describes Alberta's curriculum for eighth-year French native language instruction, as revised in 1998. An introductory section offers background information on the curriculum's design, links between the core curriculum and French native language instruction, underlying principles of language instruction, the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
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Dorrity, Terry – ELT Journal, 1983
A course in scientific English for science researchers and advanced civil engineering students in Belgium has a central problem--the heterogeneous nature of the group and lack of common research experience around which to build a curriculum. An attempt to overcome this difficulty by using two logical problems for discussion is presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Curriculum Development, Engineering, English for Special Purposes
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Newton, Jonathan; Kennedy, Graeme – System, 1996
Examines the morpho-syntax of task-based interaction and reports some possible grammatical consequences of interaction in split and shared information tasks undertaken by adult second language learners of English. Results indicate that communication tasks for language learning can be designed to influence the use of particular linguistic…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Audiotape Recordings, Comparative Analysis, Conjunctions
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Investigated the effects of the number of tokens in the conceptual representation of the to-be-uttered subject noun phrase in experiments in Dutch and French, in which subject-verb agreement errors were induced. Findings revealed a distributivity effect in both languages, supporting an account in which neither null nor post-verbal subjects are the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Concept Formation, Dutch
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Munro, Murray J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines the English vowel productions of native speakers of Italian who immigrated to Canada between 2 and 23 years of age and of native English speakers from the same community. Findings reveal an increase in perceived accentedness on every vowel as a function of increasing age of arrival as well as high intelligibility scores for English vowels…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age, Analysis of Variance, Audiotape Recordings
Haywood, Janie F.; Perkins, J. Helen – Texas Child Care, 2003
Encourages caregivers to engage children in oral language activities that will help children develop skills necessary for reading and writing. Examines: (1) oral language as a predecessor to reading; (2) talking leading to learning; and (3) rich oral environment as a scaffold. Concludes with examples of oral-language activities for infants,…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Caregiver Speech, Class Activities, Emergent Literacy
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Verhoeven, Ludo T. – Second Language Research, 1989
Investigation of the monitoring behavior of Turkish children speaking Dutch as a second language found that subjects' use repairs increased or decreased with a certain age. A positive relationship was found between monitoring use and subjects' cognitive skills and second language proficiency. (27 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Dutch
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Houston, Richard; Grubaugh, Steven – Urban Education, 1989
Describes the types of violence found in school and classroom contexts and recommends guidelines to form proactive and reactive strategies for teachers and administrators. Demonstrates the language for rules to establish order and deter violence and to use with students exhibiting violent behavior. (FMW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Classroom Techniques, Discipline Policy
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Kaplan, Robert B. – English for Specific Purposes, 1989
Explores the problems of international teaching assistants (ITA) in graduate education programs, stemming mostly from cultural, language, and educational philosophy differences. A case study of one university's attempts to investigate problems connected with ITA training identifies objectives for selection, admission, training, and retention of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Educational Philosophy
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