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Fensham, Peter J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The globalized nature of modern society has generated a number of pressures that impact internationally on countries' policies and practices of science education. Among these pressures are key issues of health and environment confronting global science, global economic control through multi-national capitalism, comparative and competitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Global Approach, Science and Society
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Connelly, Michael – English for Specific Purposes, 1997
Reviews "C-testing" in theory and practice and discusses its application in baseline and progress testing of the English of postgraduate students of engineering, technology, and management attending pre-master's programs in Bangkok, Thailand. A problem related to the reliability of pre-and post-course testing arose and the tests were…
Descriptors: Business Education, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, English for Science and Technology
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Pino-Silva, Juan – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1993
Describes a self-instruction procedure designed to provide students of science and technology at the tertiary level with a basic vocabulary in a foreign language of around 1,000 items. The technique represents an efficient method for bridging the gap between the vocabulary that beginning L2 students possess and that required to read L2 scientific…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Mueller, Elizabeth Ann – 2000
This paper is a virtual transcript of a conference presentation. It discusses the context of the course: the students, the expectations of the faculty and employers and the administrative constraints, and the course itself at the University of Hong Kong, an English-medium institution. Teaching non-native speakers to make effective oral…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Engineering Education, English for Academic Purposes
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The superordinate problem that the Threshold Project addressed is the nature of the language and learning difficulties that South African Standard 3 (Std 3) children experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium for instruction. The primary focus of the Threshold Project work in 1987 was on a section of the South…
Descriptors: African Literature, African Studies, Bilingual Students, Concept Formation