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Lessard-Clouston, Michael – TESOL Press, 2017
Whether a second language is learned as a child, teenager, or as an adult, second language acquisition research has noted certain patterns that can help ESL/EFL teachers prepare their lessons. This book explains these issues including the three essential components of ESL/EFL students' learning: input, output, and interaction. Learn how material…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Interaction
Darot, Mireille; Lebre-Peytard, Monique – Francais dans le Monde, 1983
Hesitation serves many purposes, allowing us to choose and combine words better, make discourse more cohesive and regulate its flow, and think. Frequency and length varies with the cognitive activity, but is not always easy to interpret. Foreign language instruction can help students interpret hesitations and use them to advantage. (MSE)
Descriptors: Expressive Language, French, Language Handicaps, Language Processing
Salk Inst. for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA. – 1987
The manual teaches SignFont, a written form of sign language. Following a brief introduction, the first of three major sections describes the SignFont alphabet, structured according to the parts of every sign that is written (handshape, action area, location, movement). The second section discusses in greater detail how the SignFont characters are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language, Language
Harvey, Patricia – 1977
This pamphlet is the fifth in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. The pamphlet reports on a case study involving a twelfth grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Expressive Language
Tharu, Susie – CIEFL Bulletin, 1974
A method is described for teaching writing to students for whom English is nearly a "first" language by virtue of the nature and circumstances of their use of it. The basic tenet of the approach is that the student can only learn to write well if he has a belief in himself and in the value of his own responses. To write well, the student must…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Expressive Language, Language Experience Approach
Robertson, J. D. – 1977
This pamphlet is the eighth in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. The pamphlet contains a discussion of the uses of language in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Expressive Language, Fiction

Rawley, Lee Ann; Smith, Alfred N. – Foreign Language Annals, 1983
A technique for teaching dialog is outlined that provides considerable preproduction input and acquisition experiences through which students create dialog lines. The technique uses these steps: prenarrative activities, narrative, contextual expansion of new vocabulary, reading input, dialog construction from visual cues, dialog recreation, and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Dialogs (Language), Expressive Language, Language Processing
Raver, Sharon A. – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1987
The article discusses several linguistic and nonlinguistic teaching strategies to foster language acquisition and increase spontaneous language in preschool children with language delays. Techniques include having the child complete unfinished sentences and intentionally violating an expected routine to elicit the child's language. (DB)
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Hutchison, Ann – Special Education in Canada, 1983
The nature of word-finding deficits among children with learning disabilities is analyzed; research on the relationship between word-finding ability and reading is reviewed; and classroom implications regarding teacher language, student verbal fluency and flexibility, and student social perception are noted. (CL)
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Handicaps, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities
Goodhall, P. E. – 1977
This pamphlet is the third in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. Specifically, the pamphlet presents ideas drawn from a five-year…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Harmer, Jeremy – 1983
Theoretical insights into teaching English as a second language developed in recent years are brought together in a broad methodological approach called the balanced activities approach. The book aims at providing a theoretical background to the approach as well as detailing practical instructional techniques. The first of the three parts of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Expressive Language
Southworth, R. – 1977
This pamphlet is the ninth in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. The pamphlet describes a project that was undertaken to discover…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Expressive Language, Language Research, Language Usage
Steckbeck, Pamela Meza – 1988
The guide was designed for speech pathologists, bilingual teachers, and specialists in English as a second language who work with Spanish-speaking children. The guide contains twenty illustrated stories that facilitate the learning of auditory sequencing, auditory and visual memory, receptive and expressive vocabulary, and expressive language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Lang, Margaret – 1991
Communication in written and oral discourse can be enhanced by cohesive devices, linguistic structures independent of grammar. One cohesive device is that of enumeration or listing. In French, the means of expressing enumeration include such structures as: "avant...puis.../d'une part...d'autre part.../enfin.../ensuite..." and in idiolectal use,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication Skills, Expressive Language
Clay County Schools, Montpelier, MS. – 1982
The curriculum outlines objectives, materials, and activities for preschoolers with speech/language delay. The curriculum is intended for classroom use within a normal instructional schedule. The curriculum emphasizes building of receptive and expressive language. Activities address such developmental skills as socialization, family living,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language