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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2007
The author is presenting a program that she designed for teaching liaison interpreting to translation students in their fifth semester of the translation program at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT), who are starting their training in liaison interpreting. The students never had any interpreting or translation training before. The…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Beardsley, Robert S.; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1987
Three communication courses for nonnative English speaking pharmacy students at the University of Maryland, Mercer University, and the University of Southern California are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
Hill, J.K. – Meta, 1979
Describes a method designed to increase language skills in the advanced student through French-English or English-French translation and interpretation exercises. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, English
Ionescu, Doina – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Describes a program of French for engineering students that makes extensive use of audiovisual laboratory equipment and cultural materials. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Course Descriptions, Cultural Education, Engineering Technology
Griem, Eberhard – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
After finding that the English Pronunciation course required at Regensburg University reduced errors by only 14 percent, a course was developed in recognizing errors (one's own and others'), with emphasis on vowel reduction, speech rhythm, elementary intonation and liaison. As a result, errors were reduced by 67 percent. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Freeman, Sarah; McDonough, Jo – 1975
In January 1975, 31 Venzuelan students of science were admitted to the University of Essex. It was suggested that a pre-first-year period be divided equally between attendance of regular college courses and English courses designed especially for them. This article describes the English course hurriedly prepared to meet this specific situation.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Language Programs, Communication Skills, Course Content
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Graham, Janet G.; Beardsley, Robert S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes an experimental course in communication offered to nonnative English-speaking pharmacists at the University of Maryland and reports the results of an evaluation of the course. The course was team-taught by a pharmacist specializing in communication for pharmacists and by an English-as-a-second-language specialist. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Course Organization, English for Special Purposes