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O'Farrell, Lawrence – 1988
In order to develop a guide for teaching a course on playwriting, a study reviewed related literature and conducted a survey of information and opinions from practicing playwrights. Members of the Playwrights' Union of Canada, 145 playwrights, completed a survey of ten open-ended questions describing the processes of the playwright's art,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Spanish Education Development Center, Washington, DC. – 1989
An English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) curriculum is presented that was developed and implemented by the Spanish Education Development (SED) Center in Washington, D.C. SED's ESL program, which offers beginning and intermediate instruction during the day and evening, expands from a traditional survival skills base by incorporating a problem solving…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Organizations, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design
Bhakuni, Rosa I.; And Others – 1981
Written by participants in a summer workshop on media literacy, this guide is intended for use by teachers of students in grades seven through twelve. The main portion of the guide is composed of a unit of study dealing with manipulation in advertising. The unit contains four lessons covering the following areas: (1) advertising as manipulation,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Curriculum Design, Journalism Education, Mass Media
Rothwell, William J.; Kazanas, H. C. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1988
Provides human resource development (HRD) professionals with an overview of literature on long-term curriculum planning for training in business and industry. Procedures for designing a training curriculum are described, and results are presented from a national survey of training practitioners on the current status of curriculum planning for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Industrial Training, Labor Force Development
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And Others; Harlow, Linda L. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Sets out the advantages of a functional/notional syllabus as opposed to a grammatical syllabus. Presents topics around which to build a functional/notional syllabus in teaching college-level French. Makes suggestions, based on students' perception of their communicative needs, for the sequencing of these materials. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Curriculum Guides, French
Newman, Roxana Ma; And Others – 1985
A discussion of language proficiency in college-level African language programs begins with a review of the literature in the broader field of foreign language learning concerning notions of language competence, proficiency, and proficiency goals. This section examines linguistic competence, communicative competence, communicative syllabus design,…
Descriptors: African Languages, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design