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ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1992
In cooperative learning, students work together in small groups on tasks that require cooperation and interdependence among all individuals in each group. This digest looks at how cooperative learning can be used as an effective method for working with students from diverse language backgrounds. Focus is specifically on the structural approach to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Limited English Speaking
Kagan, Spencer – 1995
Language Acquisition is determined by a complex interaction of a number of critical input, output, and context variables. This digest examines these variables and reveals that cooperative learning has a dramatic positive impact on almost all of the variables critical to language acquisition. The examination looks at how cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Crandall, JoAnn – 1994
This digest discusses the rationale for integrating language and content instruction, and provides an overview of some of the program models and teaching techniques that focus on this approach. The following program models are highlighted: Content-based language instruction, sheltered subject matter teaching, theme-based instruction, sheltered…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Program Descriptions
Calderon, Margarita Espino – 1999
This digest discusses a project conducted in the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, that sought to integrate effective practices in literacy education, an empirically based cooperative learning model, and a classroom management model to help teachers develop the English and Spanish language proficiency of their students. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Marshall, Brigitte – 2002
This report discusses efforts in adult English as a Second Language (ESL) education to link language instruction to workforce and civic skills (skills needed for successful participation in the community). It looks at the social forces that underlie these efforts (shifts in the U.S. economy, welfare reform, accountability requirements, and learner…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Learning, Civics, Classroom Techniques
Holt, Daniel D., Ed. – 1993
Essays on cooperative learning focus on the use of this strategy to address the special needs of linguistically and culturally diverse student groups in elementary and secondary education. The volume contains several essays on theory, principles, and techniques of cooperative learning and a series of model instructional units for a variety of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design