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National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 2010
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has organized the standards for accomplished teachers of world languages into nine standards, which are presented in this report: (1) Standard I: Knowledge of Students; (2) Standard II: Knowledge of Language; (3) Standard III: Knowledge of Culture; (4) Standard IV: Knowledge of Language…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Knowledge Level, Teacher Student Relationship
Brustein, William I. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2007
Confronted with a world that is strikingly different from what it was just a decade ago, the United States faces rapidly shifting economic, political, and national security realities and challenges. To respond to these changes it is essential that our institutions of higher education graduate globally competent students. This article addresses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, National Security, Study Abroad, Curriculum Design
Keller, Gottfried – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1978
Compares the amount of foreign language teaching currently offered in grades 11, 12 and 13 in the schools of five West German states. Finds that French teaching is on the endangered list in many schools, and English also is threatened because of being offered in year-overlapping courses. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Curriculum, English (Second Language), French, Grade 11
Meiring, Lynne; Norman, Nigel – Support for Learning, 2005
In this article Lynne Meiring and Nigel Norman focus on the notion of entitlement and the demands this has made on schools and teachers to cater for the needs of a wide range of pupils previously denied an experience of foreign languages. In order to enable all pupils to realise their potential, facilities and strategies have to be reviewed and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Educational Needs, Curriculum Development

Gee, James Paul – Journal of Education, 1989
Discusses cultural models, prototypical scripts that constitute the meaning of language as used by a particular group. Argues that the role of the second language teacher is to encourage students to focus on and develop beyond the cultural models of their home cultures and of the mainstream school culture. (FMW)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Images, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1980
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) tested the high school populations of a number of foreign countries in English as a foreign language. The test is described and results are reported. A variety of specific findings and their implications for curriculum development in English as a foreign language are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, English (Second Language)
Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Reviews the history of educational reform in Quebec, at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. The areas of curriculum design, parent involvement, human resources, and administration are addressed. (AM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational History
Little, David – Language Testing, 2005
Learner-centred approaches to language teaching, especially those that seek to develop learner autonomy, require the learner to take decisions concerning the goals, content and methods of learning; they also assign a central role to self-assessment. Although the logic of learner-centredness demands that learner self-assessment should somehow be…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials), Personal Autonomy
Tickoo, Makhan L. – World Englishes, 2006
The most outstanding characteristic of language in education policy for South Asia (SA) is its multilingualism. All through recorded history the seven countries that constitute SA have been multilingual. For at least the first two decades of their existence as sovereign states the large nation states of SA failed to take into account this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, Monolingualism
Prestel, David K. – 1992
This paper examines the integration of Business Russian into the Russian curriculum at Michigan State University (MSU) and the creation of a capstone sequence of Business Russian courses at the advanced level. The establishment of the basic goals of the school's business language instruction and the needs of the students are discussed. The paper…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Course Content
Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2004
It seems irrefutable that the world is progressing in concert with computer science. Educational applications and projects for first and second language acquisition have not been left behind. However, currently it seems that the reputation of completely computer-based language learning courses has taken a nosedive, and, consequently there has been…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning