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Ying Wu; Rita Elaine Silver – Language Awareness, 2025
Hospitals serve as a public space for medical practice. They also serve as an educational space. Effective, transparent, and timely delivery of health information is important at all times but especially in times of pan/epidemics. A crucial part of the necessary information dissemination is language-in-use for multiple purposes (medical practice,…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Medicine, Language Usage, Linguistics
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Hamilton, R. J.; Farruggia, S. F.; Peterson, E. R.; Carne, S. – Teachers and Curriculum, 2013
Many countries are at varying stages of implementing competency-based education into their schools to equip youth with skills necessary to adapt to a changing world. Very little is known regarding practical approaches to incorporate competencies into school curriculum. This study examines five schools in Auckland, New Zealand from a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary Education, Competency Based Education
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Ilson, Robert – ELT Journal, 1982
The 1959 Survey of English Usage has provided researchers and teachers with a corpus of spoken, manuscript, and printed Standard British English. New uses have been found for the survey's resources in recent years, and the spoken part is more widely available in book and computer tape form. (MSE)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, English, Foreign Countries, Information Utilization
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Vale, David – Babel: Australia, 1992
Reports student achievement using the "Australian Language Levels Guidelines." Presents semester report forms for German at all Year levels and weights the three "domains" of language use: interpersonal, informational and aesthetic. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aesthetics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries