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Peer reviewedPaffard, Michael K. – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Presents an approach for helping students to explore the auditory level of meaning of a poem in a step-by-step manner. (TJ)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Peer reviewedStoefen-Fisher, Jill M. – Journal of Special Education, 1988
Thirty-two hearing-impaired adolescents were assessed on comprehension of three anaphoric forms within conjoined sentences: repeated noun, personal pronouns, and null form. The null form anaphora in a semantically acceptable environment, in which some hearing-impaired students apply a deviant object-subject deletion rule, was significantly more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Difficulty Level, Error Analysis (Language), Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedBrooks, Frank B. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
A study examined the conversations of eight groups of high school students in a level three Spanish class during a jigsaw speaking task, and compared their language use patterns with those of intermediate-level learners of English as a Second Language. Results suggest both similarities and differences. Choice of language is also considered. (17…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis
Crookes, Graham, Ed.; Gass, Susan M., Ed. – 1993
Essays on second language teaching focuses on how the kinds of tasks performed by the learner relate to language output. "Choosing and Using Communication Tasks for Second Language Instruction" (Teresa Pica, Ruth Kanagy, Joseph Falodun) contains a taxonomy of communication task types, based on the concepts of goal and activity,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Download full textSmallwood, Betty Ansin – 1988
It is argued that despite a common assumption to the contrary, there is children's literature appropriate to students of English as a Second Language (ESL) aged 9-14. First, the unique needs and characteristics of the target population are examined. This population consists of limited-English-proficient speakers, usually immigrants or refugees…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Childrens Literature, Dialogs (Language)
