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Download full textAlberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 2001
This booklet presents a clear and succinct description of the educational needs of francophone students, families, and communities, and how this all fits into the constitutional requirements of Canada as directed by the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and all subsequent amendments and Canadian Supreme Court rulings. It identifies the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries, French
Smith, Frank – 1993
Multilayered, this book presents as a narrative, a first-person scholarly (but not academic) account of the political and educational conflicts surrounding the question of the development of language and thought. It follows a group of South African graduate students, black and white, including teachers who live in Soweto, as they struggle to…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Cultural Context, Culture Conflict, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLafayette, Robert C.; Buscaglia, Michael – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1985
A comparison of language skill development by college students enrolled in a content course taught in French and in a French language course found that content-course students excelled in oral skills and language attitudes and that language-course students excelled in writing skills, challenging conventional assumptions about language-learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Biley, Patti – 1995
A survey investigated the attitudes of one community college's English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers concerning the use of native language in the classroom, particularly by the teacher. Twenty-one ESL teachers, both part- and full-time, responded. Most were Hispanic, many were bilingual, and they represented a range of experience and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Faculty, Community Colleges, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedTomic, Alice D. F. – College Teaching, 1996
Suggestions for teaching in a multicultural college classroom, based on experiences at American International University (England), include acknowledge and respect individual students' uniqueness; encourage and facilitate self-reflection; clarify institutional goals and objectives without implying that they are "right"; choose materials…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
So, Alvin Y. – 1985
Written in the social context of the United States in the 1980s and based on information about Hispanic students, parents, teachers, and schools contained in the national High School and Beyond data set, this book addresses critical issues regarding the status of Hispanic education of interest to Hispanics, policymakers, and academicians. Part I…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Bias, Cultural Influences
