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Zeni, Jane – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Reports on a month-long visit to South African alternative educational programs which are filling the gap between the official computer curriculum and the potential power of computers for writing and publishing. Describes how progressive South African educators use the computer as a tool for empowerment and to subvert the established curriculum.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
The Challenge of Mai Chung: Teaching Technical Writing to the Foreign-Born Professional in Industry.
Peer reviewedPearson, Sheryl – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
The unique technical writing needs of the nonnative professional are identified, and their implications for course design and materials development are outlined. It is argued that recent research on the dynamics of reading technical English can be used to improve technical writing instruction for nonnatives in industry. (MSE)
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Nationals
Mulcrone, Patricia; Chapman, Jean B. – 1981
From September 15, 1980 to June 30, 1981, William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) conducted a project to train high school equivalency program teachers with limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in their classes. The training addressed the special needs of the LEP students in mathematics, English writing, and English reading instruction in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
Patton, Bob; And Others – 1975
This manual was prepared to guide educators in developing curriculum using performance (behavioral) objectives that include content information. The material is presented in three units: writing a unit of instruction, teaching a unit of instruction, and supplementing a unit of instruction. Each unit contains terminal and specific objectives for…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
PDF pending restorationMid-Continent Regional Educational Lab., Aurora, CO. – 1991
A research and development project focused on designing a basic English writing skills curriculum for adult basic education students and implementing that curriculum in a computer-assisted, audio-supported format. Materials were designed for MS-DOS computers and consumer grade audiotape players. The project involved developing 18 computer lessons…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiotape Recordings, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textRorschach, Elizabeth; Tillyer, Anthea; Verdi, Gail – 1992
An experimental English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program at City College (New York) is reported. The federally funded project investigated the effectiveness of an instructional method entitled "Fluency First" and based on whole language theories of learning. It requires large amounts of reading and writing, collaboration with peers,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, College Students, Curriculum Development
Hough, David A. – 1997
Ways in which culture in general and cultural change in particular affect approaches to and attitudes toward learning are examined, drawing on both published evidence and personal experience to support the position that changes in underlying technological and economic conditions create differing cultural behaviors, customs, values, beliefs,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Traits
