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Download full textHyon, Sunny – 1997
The speech introduces a colloquium on the teaching of listening comprehension to students of English for academic purposes (EAP). The colloquium's aim is to address ways that EAP instructors can improve students' lecture listening skills by discussing the types of background discourse knowledge and listening strategies that…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Language Styles, Lecture Method
Head, Mary K. – 1998
Suggestions are offered on the use of animated lectures on CD-ROM into the curriculum of an upper-intermediate-level course in English-as-a-second-language speaking and listening. The technique is recommended as a means of sharpening student listening skills and preparing students for real-life lectures in college. Animated lectures were drawn…
Descriptors: Animation, Cartoons, Classroom Techniques, Computer Software
Bolton, John K. – 1988
A study of effective English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teaching in large classes is presented. The small body of literature on class size and student achievement is reviewed, the "large section" approach is described. The approach is evaluated with data on student performance in an ESL program offered at Montgomery College, (Maryland).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Class Size, Classroom Techniques
