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Peer reviewedFreeman, David E.; Freeman, Yvonne S. – Social Education, 1991
Presents a whole language model for teaching social studies that is helpful to students learning English-as-a-Second-Language. Outlines whole-language principles, and provides a lesson plan that incorporates these principles. Points out that such principles draw upon student experiences. (NL)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Experiential Learning
Download full textBlair, David Hunt – 1990
This paper describes an approach to using science activities as a means to teach English in the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom. It is based on the author's work in Preparing Refugees for Elementary Programs (PREP) at the Philippine Refugee Processing Center. Refugee children from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, ages 6 to 12, attend…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, English (Second Language)
Yamashiro, Amy D.; McLaughlin, John W. – 1999
This chapter explains the rationale and design of a communicative English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) course using a mock nongovernmental organization (NGO) forum simulation to encourage students to investigate global issues. Cooperative learning and global education share several common goals: cooperation, interdependence, mutual understanding,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cooperative Learning
