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Download full textMoore, Benjamin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
As South East Asia enters a new decade of English language education, attempts are being made to maximize the utility of university EAP courses to fully meet students' language learning needs and prepare them for further academic study. In order for this to be achieved, language educators have begun to focus on incorporating '21st century skills'…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Sidelnik, Ellina; Melnik, Olga; Burenko, Lyudmila – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper discusses the essentials of engineering discourse in the structure of the ESP training at Southern Federal University (SFU) (Taganrog, Russia). The purpose of this paper is to justify critical rethinking of existing programs of technical students training in foreign languages at SFU taking into account the increasing role of engineering…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Morris-Wilson, Ian – 1987
The extent to which Finnish textbooks pay sufficient attention to pronunciation in English language courses is discussed, including decisions on the choice of accent (e.g., British or American English). Other issues include the choice of phonetic symbols, keys to the symbols, segmental sounds that reveal personality, weak forms, and elision and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Finnish, Foreign Countries
Joyce, Erin E. – Pennsylvania Language Forum, 1997
This study investigated whether words that are glossed (defined) in a second language text correspond to the words that readers of differing ability find difficult. It examined: (1) whether marginal glosses provide assistance to students of first-, second-, and third-semester college French in their comprehension of authentic text, as measured by…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Definitions, French
Smith, Michael Sharwood – 1976
Pedagogical grammar is the presentation of grammatical information for teaching purposes. Two important distinctions are relevant here: reference books versus teaching grammars programmed into a course, and generalized versus specialized grammars, (depending on the extent to which they have been designed to meet specific teaching/learning…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Course Organization
Rosseel, Eddy, Ed.; Young Silva, Catherine, Ed. – 1982
Papers in English, French, and Portuguese address topics of creativity and its relationship to: native language instruction by television; conditions of language production at the moment of the emergence of creativity; comparison teaching; foreign language teachers; modern language instruction; psychological, pedagogical, and cultural…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Audiovisual Aids, Child Language, Classroom Techniques
Barfield, Andrew, Ed.; Betts, Robert, Ed.; Cunningham, Joyce, Ed.; Dunn, Neil, Ed.; Katsura, Haruko, Ed.; Kobayashi, Kunihiko, Ed.; Padden, Nina, Ed.; Parry, Neil, Ed.; Watanabe, Mayumi, Ed. – 1999
This volume includes papers presented at the 1998 Japan Association for Language Teaching Conference. Section 1, "Voices of Experience," includes: "Towards More Use of English in Class by JTEs" (Midori Iwano); "Paperless Portfolios" (Tim Stewart); "Textbook Creation in Reverse Order for Chinese" (Chou Jine…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audiotape Recordings, Career Exploration, Chinese
