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Bleistein, Tasha; Smith, Melissa K.; Lewis, Marilyn – TESOL Press, 2020
How can you encourage students to accept varieties of English from around the world? This Reflective Question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling "Teaching Speaking," which explores different approaches to teaching reading in second language classrooms. This volume…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Coffey, Heather; Davila, Liv; Kolano, Lan – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2013
English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing population in the US schools (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2011); these students are consistently outperformed by their White counterparts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress data (NCES, 2011). While traditional English as a second language (ESL) classes…
Descriptors: Dialects, English Language Learners, Power Structure, English (Second Language)
Feuerstein, Reuven; Lewin-Benham, Ann – Teachers College Press, 2012
In this unique collaboration, the authors bring to life the theory of mediated learning. Through numerous examples and scenarios from classrooms and museums, they show how mediated learning helps children to become more effective learners. Readers learn the steps in the process, including analyzing the child's problem, teaching the child to focus…
Descriptors: Museums, Parents, Exhibits, Theory Practice Relationship
Laboucan, Billy Joe, Ed.; Dion, Susan, Ed.; Sawers, Neil, Ed.; Scott, J. Marilyn, Ed. – Alberta Education, 2009
The underlying foundations for all elements of this "Cree Language and Culture 12-year Program Guide to Implementation (Kindergarten to Grade 3)" are Cree values--those viewpoints and ways of being that characterize the Cree way of life. They are as important today in educating students in the Cree language and culture as they have ever…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Values, Program Guides, Kindergarten
Laboucan, Billy Joe, Ed.; Dion, Susan, Ed.; Sawers, Neil, Ed.; Scott, J. Marilyn. Ed. – Alberta Education, 2009
This guide will provide the reader with the tools needed to plan a successful Cree language experience in the classroom. As a teacher, you will choose appropriate activities with your students from the Sample Teaching and Learning Activities. The activities and assessment strategies are samples you can add to and adapt to fit your classroom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Guides, Grade 6, Grade 4

McKeown, Margaret Gentile – Language Arts, 1979
Describes a language arts project which used students' own first names as the project theme. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Etymology, Language Acquisition, Language Arts

McKeown, Margaret Gentile – Language Arts, 1979
Defines language awareness, examines shifts in meaning which words undergo, and discusses how this topic can be applied in education. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Instruction, Language Role
Harris, Roxy – 1979
Intended for adult literacy tutors in Britain who teach West Indian students, this booklet provides information about the history of Caribbean Creole English and about the ways in which it differs from Standard English. The five chapters contain discussions of the Caribbean setting; the differences between Pidgin and Creole English; Caribbean…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Creoles, Dialects, Foreign Countries
Shawn, Karen – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1979
Students improved in writing ability when the teacher emphasized the differences between oral and written language. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Styles, Language Variation, Secondary Education, Standard Spoken Usage
Francois, Denise – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Proposes a pedagogy of French grammar which takes into account the varieties found in spoken French as distinct from those found in written French. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Variation
Brindley, D. J. – 1980
Poetry presents serious difficulties to students. Many poems students are asked to study were written during eras with social mores, modes of thought and expression that are now unfamiliar. Often the sentiments expressed in poetry are discomforting or unfamiliar to students, though the greatest poets express universal ideas and emotions with which…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cultural Influences, English Instruction, Language Variation
Seesholtz, Melvin C. – 1981
Much of the work being done in composition concerns language--an increased awareness and desire to know what it is, how it works, and how people use it to create themselves and their world. The need to review and to teach the basics is obvious, but to present grammar, punctuation, and diction--the building blocks of language that must be…
Descriptors: Advertising, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing
Farr, Marcia; Daniels, Harvey – 1986
Both a theoretical framework and some practical suggestions are included in this book intended to help educators improve the teaching of writing to high school students who are native speakers of nonstandard English dialects. The first chapter includes a brief background on the problem of writing in American schools, with special focus on the…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Educational History, High Schools, Instructional Improvement
Robinson, Randal – 1989
One of a series of practitioner oriented texts designed to clarify important educational issues and improve classroom practice. This book examines difficulties in teaching Shakespearean language at the high school and undergraduate levels and provides practical exercises for students. The book begins with an overview of previous theory and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 10, High Schools, Higher Education

English in Australia, 1981
The teaching activities presented in this document have been selected from a series of language study units prepared for teachers by the Queensland Language Development Project task force as part of the Studytalk project. They focus on inquiring into some of the varieties of language most accessible to teachers and students. In each of the three…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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