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Download full textGraff, Harvey J.; Street, Brian V.; Jones, Stan – Centre for Literacy, 1998
This document is a collection of three parts: two extended papers and one shorter commentary on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). These originally appeared in "Literacy Across the Curriculum" in response to an invitation for comment to several prominent international researchers. The first of these entitled "The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Surveys, Cultural Influences
Barnes, Douglas; And Others – 1978
Three chapters discuss language usage in the classroom: "Language in the Classroom" (Jack Thomson); "Directions for Research into Classroom Communication" (Douglas Barnes); and "Teachers' Attitudes to Usage" (Ken Watson). The first article discusses how students view their classroom, with actual examples from a newspaper survey. Various teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Sanchez, Rosaura; And Others – 1978
Three papers on assessment and planning in bilingual education are presented. In "Language Theory Bases," Rosaura Sanchez advocates an approach toward child bilingual education that takes into account the relationship between the parallel domains of language development and cognitive development. An awareness of this relationship is…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Child Language
