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Wooyeong Kim – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This study examines the global expansion strategies that were initiated by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), with a specific focus on the adaptations of "Sesame Street: in Japan and South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. When CTW began its globalisation in the early 1970s, the international adaptation process of "Sesame Street"…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Media, Mass Media Effects
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Siqi, Che – English Language Teaching, 2017
Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is considered effective not only in mastering language skills, but also in acquiring the content knowledge of business subjects. WeChat, a popular communicative and interactive platform, is acknowledged as a new instrument to improve verbal teaching proficiency and obtain relevant information. The integration of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Business English
Read, Timothy; Barcena, Elena – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
In this article a proposal is presented for a theoretical framework that could provide the structure and coherence needed for the development of effective LMOOCs (Language MOOCs) and MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) apps in a systematic way that would facilitate online second language learning. The framework is argued to be appropriate for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Emery, Henry John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
The proceedings of the first Language Testing Forum in 1980 were published in "ELT Documents 111: Issues in Language Testing" (Alderson & Hughes, 1981). Discussants at the 1980 Forum raised a number questions on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) testing relating, notably, to test specificity, test content, the relationship between…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Aviation Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Al Fraidan, Abdullah – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper evaluated two ESP textbooks using the evaluation of McDonough and Shaw (2003) based on external and internal evaluation. The first textbook is "Business Objectives" (1996) by Vicki Hollett, and the second textbook is "Business Studies, Second Edition" (2002) by Alain Anderton. To avoid repetition, I will use BO and…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Swender, Elvira – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is used to assess the ability of individuals to use language for real-world purposes. Today, OPIs are used by academic institutions, government agencies, and private corporations for many purposes: academic placement, student assessment, program evaluation, professional certification, hiring, and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Second Language Learning, Testing, Language Tests