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Download full textTahrawi, Khalil A. – 1995
The practicum reported was designed to improve listening and speaking skills of 30 (grades 7-11) learners of Arabic as a second language. The teacher/researcher used these classroom instructional strategies: introducing carefully selected dialectal vocabulary and language forms; concentrating only on oral skills; avoiding heavy introduction of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Dialects
Moore, Rock D.; Fetterolf, Dee – 1997
An action research project was designed to improve the English oral language skills of students of limited English proficiency (LEP) and their academic achievement. Thirty students were randomly chosen from 70 Hispanic fifth graders who enrolled in a voluntary program. Instruction was given using a contextualized environment. Within this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Action Research, Constructivism (Learning)
Mahler, M., Ed.; Haillet, P., Ed. – RELIEF: Revue de linguistique et enseignement du francais, 1994
Contains five articles, all in French, reporting research on French second language instruction. "Francophonie et francais langue seconde a l'oral: quel(s) culture(s), quelles methodes?" (Francophony and Spoken French as a Second Language: What Cultures(s), What Method(s) (D. Issa-Sayegh) discusses the content and structure of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Drama
Holt, Daniel D.; And Others – 1992
Cooperative learning is a valuable strategy for teaching secondary school students, especially useful with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds who are learning English as a Second Language. It offers a method for managing diversity, channeling peer influence into a positive force for improving school performance, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
Loheyde, Kristin; Kunz, Nancy – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study of the oral communication between international university students in an intensive English program (IEP) and office support staff at the IEP office. The study was based on audiotaped observations and interviews of students and office staff, along with questionnaires distributed to all 150 students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Problems, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Knoerr, Helene – 1994
This book describes the conception, implementation, teaching, and evaluation of an experimental course in corrective phonetics for students enrolled in the Certificate in French as a Second Language (FLS) at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Canada) during the winter and summer sessions of 1992. It also discusses the principles of a proposed…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Course Descriptions
RMC Research Corp., Hampton, NH. – 1987
A resource is presented for those who work in bilingual education and who are involved in test selection. Initial information is provided regarding tests that might be used for student identification, placement and diagnosis, progress monitoring, exiting decisions, and program evaluation purposes. No endorsement or recommendation is implied and no…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Bilingual Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Farmer, Stephen S.; And Others – 1983
The study attempted to determine whether monolingual English-speaking supervisors and bilingual-bicultural supervisors would provide markedly different supervision management to bilingual (English-Spanish) student clinicians in audiology/speech pathology. After viewing each of 10 video-tapes of Spanish language therapy sessions for 2 preschool…
Descriptors: Audiology, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Mazur, Gertrud S. – Selecta, 1986
Problems in the second language classroom that hinder students from speaking the language freely and creatively arise from three sources: the teacher, the student, and the material. Problems involving the teacher include the common lack of an overall and inclusive definition of the course goal, the role and dysfunction of teacher "authority" in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives
Hewlett-Gomez, Michele R. – 1988
The rules and regulations governing Texas schools' treatment of the language and academic needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) public school students are reviewed. First, a historical overview of the state's laws and regulations governing programs for the LEP population is presented. Second, the state's language and academic assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – 1990
An experiment evaluated the impact of an integrated formal, analytic, and functional communicative approach to second language teaching in French immersion on French language proficiency. The impetus for the study arises from research indicating that immersion children show persistent weaknesses in their grammatical skills despite the fluent,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries
Mistry, Karen S. – 1987
A guide to instruction in Setswana, the most widely dispersed Bantu language in Southern Africa, includes general material about the language, materials for the teacher, 163 lessons, vocabulary lists, and supplementary materials and exercises. Introductory material about the language discusses its distribution and characteristics, and orthography.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Bantu Languages, Cultural Context, Daily Living Skills
Enkvist, Nils Erik, Ed. – 1982
The titles of papers in this document on impromptu or spontaneous speech are as follows: "Impromptu Speech, Structure, and Process"; "Non-Verbal Aspects of Impromptu Speech"; "Echanges, interventions et actes de langage dans la structure de la conversation" ("Exchanges, Interventions, and Speech Acts in the…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Nordberg, Bengt – 1982
The Unit for Advanced Studies in Modern Swedish (FUMS) at Uppsala University has one of the largest collections of spontaneous present-day spoken Swedish and has housed many sociolinguistic research projects since the 1960s. The four studies generating the most empirical data are on: The Urban Dialect of Eskilstuna; The Child's Linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Dialects, Discourse Analysis
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1987
Alberta's curriculum guide for a two-year German program to begin in grade 7 or 8 outlines the program's philosophy and rationale, goals and objectives, minimum expectations for communication skill development and cultural understanding, required and elective content and themes, recommended instructional materials, suggested time allotments,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Course Content, Cultural Education
