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Davison, Walter F. – NALLD Journal, 1973
Description of instructional materials used at the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Pittsburgh. (RL)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English (Second Language), English Education, Instructional Materials

Brown, Dorothy S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: American Culture, College Language Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Students

Knight, Michael – System, 1975
Video programs have proven more successful for oral proficiency than traditional conversation in English language courses at Stockholm University. Video provides verbal and non-verbal forms of communication and a variety of life-like situations. It also raises students' attention and provides a model for students to imitate. (SC)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, College Language Programs, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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
Zoppis, C. – 1973
This article describes a program at the University of Nancy, for the teaching of introductory phonetic transcription to beginning students majoring in English. The alphabet chosen for this program, the English Pronouncing Dictionary Alphabet, lends itself particularly to use with beginners. Introduction to this alphabet takes place in ten sessions…
Descriptors: Alphabets, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
Sherwood, Walter; Davis, Margaret Robbins – 1978
A language laboratory component became an integral part of the ESL (English as a second language) program at Sacramento City College when student enrollment increased and a freeze on hiring new teachers went into effect. While the number of class hours of each ESL course was reduced, an hour or two per week of laboratory work was added. The term…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Aids, College Language Programs, English (Second Language)
NEWELL, SANFORD, ED. – 1968
THIS REPORT OF THE SECOND CONFERENCE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING ADDRESSES--(1) "FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS--BORN OR MADE," (2) "ARE LINGUISTICS IMPORTANT," (3) "LANGUAGE LEARNING AND LINGUISTIC INTERFERENCE," (4) "APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC THEORIES TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING," (5) "USE AND MISUSE OF…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Donoghue, Mildred R., Ed. – 1967
The 62 selections in this volume, all written since 1963, describe the latest developments in modern language teaching at both the elementary and secondary school level. The book is designed for both preservice and inservice personnel. Individual chapters include essays on the trends and issues and the linguistic, psychological and organizational…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingualism
Jochum, C. – 1970
This article describes an attempt to give university students of English as a second language instruction in writing literary essays. The students were given literary commentaries to listen to in the language laboratory, and then were asked to summarize these commentaries, using, as much as possible, the structures contained in the original…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English Literature, English (Second Language), Essays
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1979
The teaching of English as a second language (ESL) to adults and students in the United Kingdom is examined with respect to teacher training program design. Articles are devoted to ESL teacher training programs at the University of Edinburgh, the University College of North Wales at Bangor, the University of Lancaster, and the University of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Classroom Communication, College Language Programs
Abe, D.; And Others – 1975
This paper discusses two experiments with autonomous learning strategies for learners studying English as a second language in France, one for non-specialist adults and the other for university students. The first group consisted of 26 adults who were mostly professionals and had opted for autonomy not out of preference but for lack of any other…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Autoinstructional Aids, College Language Programs
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)