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Marta Aguilar-Pérez, Editor; Balbina Moncada-Comas, Editor; Dietmar Tatzl, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book explores the interplay between English for specific purposes (ESP) and English-medium instruction (EMI), the complementary ways in which EMI and ESP are implemented in different contexts, as well as teaching and assessing challenges. Furthermore, it considers teaching practices used by ESP professionals and the kind of support given to…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lafayette, 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
Campoverde, Cecilia – 1985
An exploratory study was conducted to identify the degree of language performance in native and bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking children under circumstances of native and bilingual language instruction. The study is a first step in testing the hypothesis that the underachievement of children in English-as-a-second-language programs and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis