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Direct linkNippold, Marilyn A., Ed.; Scott, Cheryl M., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse--the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Intervention
Download full textOhannessian, Sirirpi, Ed.; And Others – 1975
This volume is a selection of papers prepared for a conference on sociolinguistically oriented language surveys organized by the Center for Applied Linguistics and held in New York in September 1971. The purpose of the conference was to review the role and function of such language surveys in the light of surveys conducted in recent years. The…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Language Patterns, Language Planning
Harrison, William; And Others – 1975
In June 1972, the Ford Foundation began a survey of English-language instruction in Jordan, including the English program at the University of Jordan. The survey attempted a critical assessment of various aspects of the English program. Part one of this report on the survey describes the aims and dimension of English instruction in Jordan,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Lambert, Richard D., Ed.; Freed, Barbara F., Ed. – 1982
Papers are presented on the loss of language skills by those who have studied and then discontinued the use of a second language. The scope of the papers is summarized and dimensions of language attrition research is briefly discussed. Theoretical aspects of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics with special relevance to language loss are…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Evaluation Methods
Belcher, Diane, Ed.; Braine, George, Ed. – 1995
Essays on research and teaching of academic writing in English as a second language include:"When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Case of a Graduate ESL Student" (Melanie Schneider, Naomi K. Fujishima); "Good Writing: I Know It When I See It" (Ilona Leki); "Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Chinese
Padilla, Raymond V., Ed. – 1983
A collection of papers on bilingual education covers these topics: (1) second-language acquisition theories relevant to bilingual education; (2) the age factor in native language maintenance and in the development of English proficiency of overseas Japanese children; (3) applying the Cummins language proficiency model to students who acquire…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
