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Peer reviewedHunt, Peter – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1993
Argues that courses in technical communication must have high status, be flexible, use distance learning techniques, and meet the needs of inservice communicators to satisfy demand for technical communicators in Europe. Suggests those courses concentrate on composition, text-handling, elicitation, and specialized technical areas. Suggests courses…
Descriptors: Course Content, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Content
Use of English, 1985
Examines the problems that the document "English: From 5 to 16" poses the English teaching profession, particularly in trying to gauge how far it needs to be understood in the context of apparent moves toward a more centrally controlled curriculum. (DF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBoomer, Garth – Journal of Reading, 1983
Offers a view of literacy within the Australian context and traces the progress of two language and curriculum development projects. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Literacy
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1982
The information contained in this report describes the 1982 Manitoba (Canada) Writing Assessment Program and the results of student performance on the grades 3, 6, 9, and 12 writing tests. Various sections of the report provide the following information: (1) steps in the assessment program and procedures for comparison with the 1979 assessment;…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Lucas, Christine W. – 1980
Operation Rewrite, a program developed for use in English instruction in Quebec (Canada), is a constructive teaching-learning method for increasing students' linguistic competency in written discourse. The program provides middle and secondary school students with structured exercises to study and rewrite, using the author's exact format but with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Peacock, Colin – 1981
"Language Skills in English," a three-year project designed to explore the application of mastery learning techniques to solve the reading and writing problems of secondary school students in Scotland, is discussed in this paper. Background information provided in the first section of the paper concerns the context of the project, its…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Scottish Curriculum Development Service, Edinburgh. – 1986
Having implications for teachers and students at all stages of primary school, this project report delineates an alternative and more effective approach to the teaching of beginning writing. The report points out that the project, while producing a body of classroom-tested material, focused on awareness about written language and how children…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
