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Bonetto, Elena, Ed.; Ennis, Michael Joseph, Ed.; Unterkofler, Dietmar, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
The international symposium "Teaching Languages for Specific and Academic Purposes" aimed to bring together university instructors and researchers of LSP and LAP in order to share and explore approaches, methods, and practices which have emerged within diverse contexts. Topics include needs analyses, TBLT, curriculum development,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Languages for Special Purposes, Higher Education
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). Committee for General and Technical Education. – 1974
This report summarizes the proceedings of a meeting held to assess foreign language instruction in member states of the Council for Cultural Cooperation and to plan future CCC activities. Progress has been made in determining the basic skills and lexicon needed for primary language competence, and it is hoped that a unit/credit plan will lead to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conference Reports, Language, Language Instruction
1978
The following papers on meeting individual needs in second language instruction are included: (1) "Sprachenlernen: Beduerfnisse des Individuums in verschiedenen Leben- und Lernsituationen (Language Learning: Individual Needs in Various Life and Learning Situations)," by Eugen Egger; (2) "Peut-on accorder les besoins de l'etudiant et ceux de son…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Education Work Relationship, Individual Needs, Individualized Instruction
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Nuopponen, Anita, Ed.; Palmberg, Rolf, Ed. – 1989
This publication consists of a collection of 18 papers in English, German, Swedish, and Finnish originally presented at a 1988 symposium of the Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics (AFinLA), which was organized jointly by the University of Vaasa and the Department of Teacher Education at Abo Akademi, Finland. Papers focus on the following…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Finnish, Foreign Countries
Taggart, Gilbert, Ed. – 1977
These 16 papers in French and English deal with questions related to the purpose of learning a language, one's native language as well as a second one. Specifically, the presentations deal with the following topics: (1) consideration of learners' needs; (2) the usefulness of learning English in Quebec; (3) the tension between knowledge and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), English, English Instruction
Titone, Renzo, Comp. – 1977
The nine papers presented here treat the implications for language teaching arising from the fundamental notion that personal growth, cultural development and international communication are three interwoven elements of human progress. The papers are organized as follows: (1) an introductory chapter on language learning for cultural development…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conference Reports
Laberge, Diane, Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and…
Descriptors: Basque, Black Dialects, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Consonants
Des Harnais, Gaston, Ed. – 1988
Eighty-nine conference papers are presented in 10 sections: (1) language and cultural factors in conducting international business (qualifications for success as an international manager, staffing of international departments, role of second language proficiency, and international management concepts); (2) interdisciplinary language and business…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Area Studies, Business Administration Education