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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2005
Children are born with an impressive ability to learn language, therefore the educational process is able to build on a dynamic that is already present. The principles that apply to the development of English language are equally applicable to all language learning. Good nursery education provides a microcosm of effective language development.…
Descriptors: Students, Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Donato, Richard; And Others – Language Learning, 1996
Reports on the third year of a research project to document and evaluate an innovative foreign language in elementary schools (FLES) program in Japanese for Grades K-5. Findings indicate that the children progressed considerably in foreign language proficiency and developed positive attitudes toward language learning. (28 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change Strategies, Discourse Analysis, Educational Innovation
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Eliot, Lise – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses the centers of language in the brain and the critical period for language acquisition. Explains developmental milestones of language development--receptive language, babbling, short phrases, full sentences--in the context of brain development. Emphasizes parents' role in language development, including talking to the child, dialogic…
Descriptors: Brain, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
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Ben-Itzhak, D.; Most, T.; Weisel, A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
The present study examined the relationships between teachers' and communication clinicians' self-reported knowledge on cochlear implants and their expectations of CIs. The authors also explored these professionals' views regarding the child's communication mode, educational setting, and social options following cochlear implantation. The…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Surgery, Knowledge Level
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Sullivan, Anne; Perigoe, Christina Barris – Volta Review, 2004
The Association Method is an instructional strategy currently being used with children with hearing loss, children with speech and language disorders, and children with reading disabilities. It is a systematic, incremental, phonetically based, multi-sensory approach designed to increase the understanding and use of spoken language; improve…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Difficulties, Articulation (Speech), Oral Language
Gomez, Leo; And Others – 1995
The primary purpose of this study was the naturalistic assessment of growth in oral English proficiency of Hispanic American limited English proficient (LEP) students in a paired reciprocal learning format. Subjects were fifth-grade students in a summer English-as-a-Second-Language class. Twelve students in a paired learning format and 12 in a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Kim, Anna Charr – 1995
The case study examined the development of English writing skills in a native Russian-speaking college student with no previous instruction in English as a Second Language. It drew on writing samples from 2 years of English language instruction. Theories of first and second language acquisition, especially in written expression, are analyzed in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Connor, Lucy B. – I.C.T.F.L. Accents, 1995
A survey of a random sample of Illinois elementary, junior, and senior high school second language teachers investigated three areas: (1) teacher preparation, training, and oral proficiency levels; (2) percent of the target language used by the teacher in the classroom within a specific time span; and (3) the teacher-perceived usefulness and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Tegey, Habibullah; Robson, Barbara – 1996
This grammar of Pashto was designed to accompany a set of beginning- and intermediate-level instructional materials for teaching the Pashto language to English speakers, but can be used separately as a reference by readers who are not learning the language. Introductory sections in English and Pashto describe the content and organization. The…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Alphabets, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Eckermann, Carol; Kim, Anna Charr – 1996
A case study of second language development in a college student focused on comparative changes in the development of oral and written skills over a period of two years. The subject was a Russian student of English as a second language who had recently arrived in the United States. Errors and syntactic maturity were analyzed in writing samples…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adult Learning, Age Differences, Case Studies
Wilson, Vicki – 1996
Biology I students (n=166) in a high school in southern Mississippi completed the Learning Styles Inventory, a 45-item instrument designed to measure preference for channel of learning (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic), sociological environment (individually or in groups), and mode of expression (oral or written). A three-way analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Analysis of Variance, Auditory Perception, Biology
Yuen, Lana – 1996
A study investigated Japanese college students' perceptions and assessments of their college English classes, and to what factors they attribute difficulty in acquiring oral English. Subjects were 189 students from a junior college and a university, in first- through third-year English conversation classes. Most were English majors required to…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language)
Fradd, Sandra Homlar; And Others – 1994
This book meets a critical assessment need which is the need to develop legally and educationally defensible assessment procedures for use with non-English language background students who are still in the process of learning English. The purpose of this text is to provide educators with both the information on which to make effective educational…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Diagnosis, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Henry, Linnea Margaret – 1994
This paper examines the use of oral dialogue journals as an integral part of foreign language instruction. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of oral (audiotape) journals, and compares them to written journals. The paper then explores the use of oral dialogue journals in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to adult students…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Comparative Analysis, Dialog Journals
Lancy, David F., Ed. – 1994
Noting that renaming common folk practices as "emergent literacy" practices legitimizes these unacknowledged ways of learning to read and write, this book highlights the importance of out-of-school literacy experiences and the value of real literature and real writing. It stresses a reciprocal relationship between basic research on the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Early Reading
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