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Download full textSachs, Gertrude Tinker; And Others – 1994
Set in the context of Hong Kong's school curriculum reform initiative, which centers on development and implementation of task-based instruction, a study examined: (1) what teachers of English as a Second Language understand about language learning and what decisions they make when preparing a classroom task; (2) to what extent elementary and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Reilly, Tarey – 1988
Human beings have as great a capacity for losing or forgetting a language as they do for learning one. Many have lost language skills due to a lack of a linguistically appropriate environment in which to use a particular language. Millions of individuals who have studied a second language in high school or college for several years have lost the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Design
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1996
The guide is designed to address concerns of North Carolina second/foreign language teachers and school administrators as they plan and implement block class scheduling. The first section outlines the rationale and special considerations for block scheduling, and offers some typical schedule options. North Carolina's instructional time…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Nunan, David – 1989
This book provides teachers with a practical introduction to the design and development of communicative language learning tasks. The ideas presented are relevant to teachers working in or preparing for a range of situations with a variety of learner types. First, some basic issues concerning communicative learning tasks are discussed, and the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design
Dubin, Fraida; Olshtain, Elite – 1986
The guide for developing curricula and instructional materials is intended for use in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction and instruction in other second/foreign languages. It presents an overview of the course designer's task and some available techniques. First, assessment of educational needs and relevant societal factors is…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Course Organization
Stryker, Stephen B., Ed.; Leaver, Betty Lou, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays contains articles on content-based foreign language courses at three levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced) and on foreign languages across the curriculum, including: "Content-Based Instruction: From Theory to Practice" (Stephen B. Stryker, Betty Lou Leaver); "Content-Based Instruction in a Basic Russian…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
