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Evans, Stephen – History of Education, 2008
This article examines the attitudes of the colonial and metropolitan governments towards the promotion of English-language education on Hong Kong Island between 1842 and 1860. The study, which draws on a range of unpublished primary sources, was conducted in response to Whitehead's recent call for detailed case studies of colonial education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Policy
Langhanke, Otto L. W. – Otto L.W. Langhanke, 1917
This textbook is intended to be used in a beginning German course. It focuses on material of practical value offered and taught to bring students quickly and surely to the point where they can readily understand and speak the language. [For the "Teacher's Manual for Beginner's German. First Book," see ED623520.]
Descriptors: Textbooks, German, Second Language Learning, Introductory Courses
Langhanke, Otto L. W. – Otto L.W. Langhanke, 1917
This textbook is the teacher's manual for "Beginner's German. First Book." It is intended to cover one year of 40-minute periods or one and one-half years of 30-minute periods. After a year and a half the average student should be able to read such plays as Mosers "Bibliothekar", to memorize any part thereof, to write a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbooks, German, Second Language Learning
Griffis, William E. – A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1872
This textbook is a pictorial Japanese-language reading primer in for primary students. Lessons are in English with phonetic Japanese spelling.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Japanese, English, Reading Instruction
Peet, Isaac Lewis – Baker, Pratt & Co., 1875
The book opens with the names of twelve objects, which the teacher must have before him. These names have been selected with a view to embracing the whole alphabet, so that when the pupil has learned to write them, he has also learned to form all the letters in use. The teacher then directs the pupil, in writing, to touch one of these objects,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Deafness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
O'Connor, Patricia – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Achievement approaching mastery in the use of at least one modern foreign language on the part of a large portion of tomorrow's citizens is an objective which is new in American education. Language programs in the high school are therefore undergoing basic modifications in order to establish learning conditions that can develop communication…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Communication Skills, Speech Communication
O'Shea, M.V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This monograph presents data and conclusions derived from one phase of an investigation of objectives and methods in the teaching of modern foreign languages in high schools and colleges. A committee of specialists operating under the auspices of the American Council of Education and with financial assistance received from the Carnegie Corporation…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Graduation, High Schools
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Dror, Yuval – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1993
Proposes a model for rural education based on the progressive practices of a rural school in Israel in the early 1900s. Desirable characteristics of rural education are organized into four innovative educational models: education for work (including agricultural education); community education; social-ideological education; and curricular autonomy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agricultural Education, Community Education, Educational History
Austin, Ruth – American Book Company, 1913
In this textbook, the author has given a sequence of 44 lessons for foreign women. This textbook is used for teaching English to foreign women in U.S. settlement houses. The stories in this book can be given as reading lessons, and after a time should be supplemented by other simple stories of interest to them. Any desire which will lead to…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Females
Kimball, Lillian G. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook book is an English course intended for use during the seventh and eighth grades and provides for study along both lines of language work, grammar and composition. The book includes a section on dictionary use. The final chapter is devoted to word analysis and was designed especially for the benefit of that great majority of grammar…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Language Arts, Grammar, Writing (Composition)
Kitao, Kenji – 1995
This paper discusses the history of language laboratories. It was Edison's invention of the tin foil phonograph in 1877 that made the first language laboratories possible. It was used for a foreign language class for the first time in 1891. At first, records were mainly used to preserve rare languages, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Language Laboratories
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Knight, Denise Bourassa – ADFL Bulletin, 1988
A historical review of the establishment of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages and its bulletin highlights both the changes that have occurred and are continuing to occur in the foreign language profession and the association's focus on covering the multifaceted perspectives and needs of the profession. (CB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Educational Change, Faculty Organizations, Higher Education
Wanostrocht, N. – Carter, Hendee & Company, 1832
In this textbook, the parts of speech are arranged in the usual order, and each part is discussed under a separate section. Each rule is followed by a familiar exercise, which the master may use in the place of a dialogue. The advantages resulting from the scholars learning and then repeating their own translations by heart, must, in the opinion…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Grammar, French, Second Language Learning
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Allwright, Dick – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Origins and problems of classroom-centered research on language learning and teaching are surveyed, tracing the development of both the concerns and the research tools used. The development of a productive controversy over objective versus subjective methods is described. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational History, Language Research, Research Methodology
Besse, Henri – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Traces the history of the "francais fondamental," concentrating on the period following its launching in 1951. (AM)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, French, Historical Reviews, History
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