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Peer reviewedUrbancic, Anne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Reports on a pilot project which used an imaginary tour of an Italian city as the basis for conversation exercises. (AM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Higher Education, Italian, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedLeith, William D. – French Review, 1979
Describes a method which uses popular French songs to stimulate discussion in a high school level conversational course. (AM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, French, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedEppert, Franz; Kuepper, Karl J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents a language teaching method designed to increase communicative competence through an application of speech act theory and the use of dialogs and the source language. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
Peace Corps, Dakar (Senegal). – 1987
A teacher's guide for Wolof is designed for Peace Corps volunteer language instruction and geared to the daily language needs of volunteers. Instructions are written in both French and English. It consists of six chapters, each containing sets of phrases for specific situations, supplementary expressions for use in rural areas, a dialogue on the…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. Foreign Language Center. – 1986
The course in basic Pashto consists of seven units, each containing five lessons. Lesson topics include informatioh about the Pashtuns, classroom communication and behavior, greetings, telephone use, visiting someone's house, giving personal information, conversation skills, giving and getting directions, discussing everyday life, the seasons,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Context
Peer reviewedNormand, Guessler – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Discusses strategies designed to cope with problems encountered at the college level that are caused by students' diversity in background and levels of competency. Alternatives to the lock-step method of instruction, with applicability at both the college and high school level, are described. (EJS)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses
Delaruelle, Susan – 1998
The teacher's guide contains lessons in intermediate English based on a fictitious community in Australia and its inhabitants. Lessons focus on two types of interaction: those with an interpersonal motivation (e.g., casual conversations), and those with pragmatic motivation (e.g., buying and selling, seeking help). The teacher's book provides a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conflict Resolution, Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills
Download full textCumming, Alister, Ed.; And Others – TESL Canada Journal, 1993
This bibliography is intended as a resource for teachers and service-providers who work with participants in LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) programs of basic English-as-a-Second-Language education. It lists and describes Canadian teaching materials appropriate for adult immigrants' English language learning and their…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies
Soh, Yong-Kian; And Others – 1995
This curriculum is designed to introduce Chinese language and culture in the elementary grades, and consists of a teacher's manual and student activity book. The teacher's guide consists of an introductory section, which outlines the rationale, objectives, suggested teaching techniques and materials, and language and culture content of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Chinese Culture, Class Activities, Conversational Language Courses
Kinoshita, Waunita – 1995
The curriculum is designed to introduce Korean language and culture in grades 4 and 5, and consists of a teacher's manual and student activity book. The teacher's manual contains: an introductory section describing the curriculum's content and objectives, making suggestions for classroom interaction and discussions, and listing needed…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Class Activities, Conversational Language Courses, Course Content
