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Direct linkSerafini, Ellen J.; Torres, Julio – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
The demand for Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) university courses in the United States has prompted widespread curricular change in language departments over the last two decades (Klee, 2015; Sánchez-López, 2013). However, many instructors lack the tools and training needed to design SSP curricula that meet learners' communicative needs in…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
Academic Oral Communication Needs of EAP Learners: What Subject-Matter Instructors Actually Require.
Peer reviewedFerris, Dana; Tagg, Tracy – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Examines the requirements of instructors of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) by surveying professors at four institutions of higher learning. Quantitative and qualitative analyses indicate that U.S. instructors' lecturing styles are becoming more interactive, a trend placing new expectations upon students. (31 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Faculty, College Students, Correlation
Cummings, Melbourne S. – 1983
Until the late 1960s, rhetoric instruction in the United States ignored forms of rhetoric used by black Americans, although black rhetoric has existed in the United States for as long as black people have lived there. A course in black rhetoric must acknowledge the persuasive intent of all rhetoric, but note at the same time that black rhetoric…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black History, Black Studies, Course Content
