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Teachers' Agency and Teaching Challenges in Multilingual Spaces: An Exploratory Study of How EFL Teachers Address Listening and Speaking Skills Needs in Centralized Systems
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Kountiala J. Somé – TESL-EJ, 2025
The study examined challenges EFL teachers in Burkina Faso face in teaching listening and speaking to grade 10 students in centralized education systems and how they address these issues. The primary obstacle is the focus on national exam formats, which prioritize grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, sidelining communicative language…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
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Schwieter, John W., Ed.; Benati, Alessandro, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this "Handbook," written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Theories
Classroom Experiments with Oral Reading.
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Ross, Elinor P. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Notes that good oral reading can strengthen the relationship between the spoken and printed word and improve comprehension. Offers suggestions to develop students' ability to read aloud. (FL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Activities
An Investigation of Variables of Instruction and Their Relation to Rate of English Language Learning.
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Crandall, Kathleen, Eilers; Albertini, John A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
An investigation of the effect of nine instructional variables on rate of English language learning among 264 new students at National Technical Institute for the Deaf showed that the variables concerning teaching intensity and presentation design used by teachers for delivering English language lessons have a significant effect on rate of written…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Educational Research, English Instruction
Grammaire et communication (Grammar and Communication).
Stirman-Langlois, Martine – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
A technique for teaching French grammar that involves reading, rereading, and analyzing the language in authentic materials is discussed. The student is led to recognition and generalization of structures in the text. Text examples used here include a comic strip and a publicity blurb for a French city. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Comics (Publications), Communication Skills
Use a Tape Recorder to Teach Basic Skills.
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Rivers, Larry E. – Social Studies, 1980
Outlines a two-day lesson designed to illustrate how using a tape recorder can improve listening, reading, comprehension, and writing skills. After listening to "The Arrival of Africans to the American Colonies," students answer questions using the notes they took while listening. (KC)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Reading As Communication
McKenzie, Moira – Notes from Workshop Center for Open Education, 1976
Argues that when reading is taught as a communication skill and as a further extension of language, the teacher should be concerned with helping the student to link up and become involved with the author's message. A child should be encouraged to search for the meaning of what he reads when he begins to learn to read. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Oral Reading
Worm Painting and 44 More Hands-On Language Arts Activities for the Primary Grades.
Belk, E. Jo Ann; Thompson, Richard A. – 2001
This book contains hands-on language arts activities for K-3 children. Activities in the book help develop skills in the six language arts while continually reinforcing how much fun learning can be. The book's teacher-friendly format breaks down each activity into the following components: objectives, materials, preparation, procedure, summary,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Creative Dramatics, Instructional Effectiveness
Voyager: Reading and Writing for Today's Adults. Levels 2 and 3 Teacher's Resource Guide [and] Student Book [and] Student Workbook [and] Puzzles [and] Vocabulary Workbook. Voyager Placement Tool for Levels Foundation-6 Student Booklet [and] Teacher Scoring Guide.
1999
This document contains the 11 publications constituting the second stage of the Voyager program, which is a four-stage program that utilizes contemporary content and instructional approaches to teach the reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills that adults need in today's world and to take adult learners from the beginning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques