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Download full textMiller, Kirsten – Changing Schools, 2003
This article examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) on English language learners (ELLs). Title III of NCLB describes specific requirements that states and districts must meet in educating ELLs. In February 2003, the U.S. Department of Education released non-regulatory guidance on the Title III state formula grant…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Viberg, Ake – School Research Newsletter, 1989
This newsletter discusses a Swedish research project investigating the command immigrant school children living in Sweden have of their native language and of Swedish as a second language. The project's objective is to describe the children's language proficiency and factors promoting or inhibiting it in the classroom. The study is undertaken in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education
Latchford, Ann – Digest of Australian Languages and Literacy Issues, 1996
Australia's Occupational English Test (OET) for health professionals was developed in response to the need for immigrant health professions workers to have increased awareness of Australian colloquialisms, improved language training, both in general and within the professions, and cultural awareness training. The test assesses speaking, reading,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Begin, Yves – Working Papers on Bilingualism, 1979
The question of whether educational technology can be of assistance to the public school teacher who is in the position of having to teach the rudiments of a second language that he himself has not mastered is addresed in this paper. A series of teaching and learning units were constructed and experimented with for two years in teaching English as…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Odendaal, M. S. – Per Linguam: A Journal of Language Learning, 1985
This special issue of "Per Linguam" is entirely devoted to a report of a project to improve the English language proficiency of primary school teachers in the Kwa Zulu area of Southern Africa. The inter-university project was designed to raise the standards of English modeling and instruction early in the education of children in order…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Lukacs, Judith, Ed. – 1985
Three articles discuss aspects of current foreign language instruction in Hungary. "Foreign Languages in Hungarian Schools Today" (Karoly Fulop) surveys the current status of second language instruction, the developments made since reforms were recommended in 1972 and 1979, and possible directions for further development. It looks first…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Passage: Journal of Refugee Education, 1987
The three 1987 issues of the Journal of Refugee Education include articles on the following topics: on-the-job training; preparing refugee children for elementary school programs; examining attitudes and stereotypes through video; older teenagers at the Bataan (Philippines) refugee site; developing a survey course in Indonesian culture for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Artists, Children, Community Services
