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Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1987
Abstracts are provided for 16 bilingual vocational education projects offered in 1987-88. Each abstract provides information on: grantee; state; project title; project director, address, and telephone number; project officer and U.S. Department of Education address; language group(s) served; occupational skills area(s); length of training cycle…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Auto Mechanics, Bilingual Education
Hart, Sylvia; Conlon, Kathleen – 1977
In an attempt to help educators, particularly in nursing, understand the attitudes, feelings, and perspectives that students from other cultures bring to the teacher-learner situation, this paper identifies some generalized behavioral characteristics of different cultures and the educational problems that may arise when cultural differences are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, Black Culture, Chinese Culture
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McLane, Kathleen, Comp.; Omaggio, Alice, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1977
This is the eighteenth in a series of catalogues of documents in the ERIC system that are of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" (RIE) from July through December 1976. The list is compiled from all…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Salamanca, Anthony J. – 1974
This position paper gives the results of informal surveys carried out by the Bilingual-Bicultural Task Force of the California State Department of Education. Only 60 to 65% of the teachers in the state bilingual programs are judged bilingual and 50% bilingual-biliterate. Almost all of the teacher aides are judged bilingual, and a large percentage…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Anderson, Winifred; Chitwood, Stephen; Hayden, Deidre – 1999
Designed to assist Spanish-speaking parents and teachers in understanding special education procedures, this book describes the process for obtaining school services for children with disabilities. An introduction reviews six major provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that relate to children's rights to a free,…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Career Planning, Civil Rights, Disabilities
Cline, Zulmara; Necochea, Juan – Issues in Teacher Education, 2004
Second language learners continue to languish in California public schools in spite of six years of promises following passage of the controversial ballot initiative "English for the Children" (Proposition 227) to fix the education of English Language Learners (ELLs) through English-only instruction. In addition, with the development of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Peer Teaching
Audette, Julie, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Papers (entirely in French) presented at the conference on linguistics include these topics: language used in the legislature of New Brunswick; cohesion in the text of Arabic-speaking language learners; automatic adverb recognition; logic of machine translation in teaching revision; expansion in physics texts; discourse analysis and the syntax of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Advertising, Arabic, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Rosenbush, Marcia H., Ed. – Iowa FLES Newsletter, 1995
The first ten years (30 issues) of the newsletter for Iowa teachers of foreign language in the elementary school (FLES) contain a variety of articles on both curricular and extracurricular FLES programs and teaching. Topics addressed include: teacher certification; summer language camps; multicultural education and cultural awareness; program…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Conferences, Cultural Education
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Learning 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
Belyazid, Fatima Zahra, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Languages, Bilingual Education, Child Language
Voght, Geoffrey M., Comp. – 1986
Forty-five conference papers are presented in six sections: getting started in languages for special purposes (concerning teaching, curriculum development, finding, and resources); Spanish for business and the professions; French for business and the professions; other languages (English as a second language, German, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Cultural Context
Padilla, Raymond V., Ed. – 1983
A collection of papers on bilingual education covers these topics: (1) second-language acquisition theories relevant to bilingual education; (2) the age factor in native language maintenance and in the development of English proficiency of overseas Japanese children; (3) applying the Cummins language proficiency model to students who acquire…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Pinton, Giorgio A. – 1978
The bilingual education of adults in correctional institutions is discussed. The program specifically described is a bilingual/ESL (English as a second language) program for Puerto Rican adults in a Connecticut correctional center. The study has two sections: (1) the Puerto Rican adult in a penal institution; an explanation of his needs and an…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Danoff, Malcolm N. – 1978
The fourth and final report on this study of the impact of bilingual education provides an overview of the design of the study and a summary of the findings, which were discussed in more detail in three previously released volumes. The goals of the study were to: (1) determine both the cognitive and the affective impact of bilingual education on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
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