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Hecht, Michael L.; And Others – 1993
This book addresses African American identity and communication and articulates how African Americans define themselves and membership in their group as well as how they percent intra- and inter-ethnic communication. Communication is viewed as a socially constructed process that revolves around membership in ethnic cultures. They explicate core…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Blacks, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Groups
Harste, Jerome C.; And Others – 1984
As a result of a program of research about cognitive processes involved in learning to read and write among 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year old-children, this book attempts to get teacher-researchers to think through the implications of recent insights into literacy and literacy learning. The first section examines instructional assumptions; proposes a new…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Dillard, J. L. – 1977
The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate that the fields of linguistics, dialectology, language education, and early reading would be well served by a word book of the Black English vernacular. Chapters are devoted to discussion of the social significance of a lexicon of Black English vernacular, the terminology of sex and lovemaking, religion…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research
Keller, Eric; Warner, Sylvia Taba – 1976
This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals with opening formulas, which are grouped under the following categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Keller, Eric; Warner, Sylvia Taba – 1976
This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals with linking formulas, which are grouped under the following categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Keller, Eric; Warner, Sylvia Taba – 1977
This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals specifically with response and closing formulas. In section 1, response formulas are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Bruder, Mary Newton – 1973
This is a text intended for use with adult beginning classes in ESL in a 15-week intensive course. The major objective of the text is to develop communicative competence. Therefore, the structures are taught through mechanical drills, meaningful drills, and finally communicative drills, so that "teacher talk" is gradually diminished and "student…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Dialogs (Literary)
