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Peer reviewedSbaratta, Philip – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Language Laboratories, Learning Laboratories
Peer reviewedRoss, Leo – System, 1975
This course blueprint was first drawn up in 1968 and was later coordinated by the Department of Russian at Birmingham University. Problems of self-instructional courses, details of a particular Russian course and why it had to be changed, and possible improvements for similar course are given. (SC)
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBeardsley, Robert S.; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1987
Three communication courses for nonnative English speaking pharmacy students at the University of Maryland, Mercer University, and the University of Southern California are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
Costamagna, Lidia – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
Emphasizes the importance of pronunciation in the teaching of Italian as a second language and discusses a course in phonetics and phonology taught at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy. Common difficulties are highlighted, and lab exercises to overcome these difficulties are provided. (27 references) (CFM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Italian
Direct linkHill, J.K. – Meta, 1979
Describes a method designed to increase language skills in the advanced student through French-English or English-French translation and interpretation exercises. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, English
Griem, Eberhard – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
After finding that the English Pronunciation course required at Regensburg University reduced errors by only 14 percent, a course was developed in recognizing errors (one's own and others'), with emphasis on vowel reduction, speech rhythm, elementary intonation and liaison. As a result, errors were reduced by 67 percent. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Zoppis, C. – 1973
This article describes a program at the University of Nancy, for the teaching of introductory phonetic transcription to beginning students majoring in English. The alphabet chosen for this program, the English Pronouncing Dictionary Alphabet, lends itself particularly to use with beginners. Introduction to this alphabet takes place in ten sessions…
Descriptors: Alphabets, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedGraham, Janet G.; Beardsley, Robert S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes an experimental course in communication offered to nonnative English-speaking pharmacists at the University of Maryland and reports the results of an evaluation of the course. The course was team-taught by a pharmacist specializing in communication for pharmacists and by an English-as-a-second-language specialist. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Course Organization, English for Special Purposes
Download full textFryer, T. Bruce, Ed.; Medley, Frank W., Jr., Ed. – 1986
Selected papers from the 1984 and 1985 meetings of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching include: "Perspectives on Proficiency: 1985"; "Developmental Stages in Functional Language Proficiency"; "Cultural Understanding, Oral Proficiency, and Study Abroad: Getting It All Together"; "Developing Functional…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
