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Peer reviewedWherritt, Irene M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1981
Suggests criteria and strategies for an efficient use of textbook grammar presentations to give students a useful and native-like language. Shows how text deficiencies can be remedied through rearrangement and deletion of grammatical points and emphasizes the need for reentering useful, high frequency items in new contexts throughout the course.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Instructional Design, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedMcKay, Sandra Lee – Modern Language Journal, 1980
Compares three major types of syllabi--structural, situational, and notional--to determine how the last differs from the others. For each, the author examines its focus, its basis for selecting and ordering materials, and its typical manner of presentation. Discusses in considerable detail macro- and microstrategies consistent with the notional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies, Instructional Materials, Language Styles
Tyacke, Marian; And Others – TESL Talk, 1980
The importance of the distinction between form and function in language use, the appropriateness of language to varying situations, the elements of discourse structure, and the paralinguistic features of communication are discussed. Classroom activities employing these principles to develop communicative competence are included. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Embry, Dennis D.; And Others – 1978
This paper reviews relevant experimental literature on certain components of printed instructional materials which are commonly used in early childhood education for normal, at-risk, and handicapped children. The components examined include the use of color, instances of concepts, language style, number of answer options, the use of pictures and…
Descriptors: Color, Concept Teaching, Design, Design Preferences
Download full textRuter, Allan J. – 1983
Students need to be made comfortable with the "foreign" language of British English before they can fathom the range of and changes in English literature through the centuries. In one approach to college English, students spend most of the first semester studying nineteenth century novels. After having studied four such novels, each for between…
Descriptors: College English, English Curriculum, English Instruction, English Literature
Flinn, Jane Zeni, Ed. – 1981
The articles in this volume were written by teachers with an average of 15 years experience teaching writing from the primary grades through college. Each article is the fruition of one to three years work with students and teachers after a summer institute. The authors of the articles discuss such topics as (1) personal experiences as a teacher…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Styles
