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Hold Your Courses: Language Education, Language Choice, and Economic Development.
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Bruthiaux, Paul – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Argues that discussion of the role of English in development fails to recognize the success of narrowly focused community-based projects, in which basic first language literacy rather than English education is the goal. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development, English (Second Language)
Language in Development in the United States: Supervising Adult ESOL Preservice Teachers in an Immigrant Community.
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Rymes, Betsy – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Reports on a community-based teacher education project in which preservice English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers developed language curricula for a Latino community in the United States. Shows how many of the issues that characterize language in development work in poor countries also affect ESL instruction in the United States and other…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development, English (Second Language)