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Download full textAchren, Lynda; Bamforth, Jill; McKenna, Angela – 2000
This curriculum guide for Certificates in English Language Literacies (CELL) advocates "apprenticed" learning and assessment. At no stage is the learner expected to work alone, though it is expected and desired that learners eventually consolidate more skills and become more independent. This curriculum is designed so that the learner…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Skaer, Peter M. – 1984
A language typology based on common errors made in pronunciation of English by speakers of other languages is presented and discussed. The classification system was developed from the concept of interlanguage, the intermediate step between a language learner's native and target languages, and the notion that interference in learning a new language…
Descriptors: Amharic, Cambodian, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Solis, Adela – 1986
A study examined the acquisition of negation in English as a Second Language in a 4-year-old Salvadoran girl, a native speaker of Spanish. Specifically, the study looked for evidence of language transfer in bilingual acquisition and the direction of that transfer (Spanish to English, English to Spanish). Over 5 months, spontaneous speech (55…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, 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
