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Download full textGolub, Lester S. – 1973
This study of written language development and instruction of elementary school children found that realistic approaches are needed in teaching language usage, dialects, and registers. These approaches should include a nonrepetitive instructional system accounting for different linguistic abilities, a diagnostic evaluation of children's written…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
van Ek, J. A. – 1972
This study discusses problems involved in an attempt to define the minimum level of foreign language competence. That level, defined as the "threshold level," is considered to be the lowest learning objective in the framework of a unit/credit system. The criteria suggested in this paper to determine the threshold level of linguistic competence in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Language Instruction, Language Programs, Language Skills
PDF pending restorationIllinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Dept. of Foreign Languages. – 1972
This directory provides data concerning teaching staff and language programs in Illinois' schools. The publication is presented in two parts: Public Schools, and Independent, Parochial and Private Schools. Both sections present data concerning: (1) county, school and district number, name of teacher, and language(s); and (2) name of teacher,…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Language Instruction, Language Programs, Language Teachers
Vaughan, Clark A. – Independent School Bulletin, 1973
Author discusses the advantages and disadvantages to using the Sullivan Language Materials. (GB)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Aids, Language Guides, Language Instruction
Nielsen, Oscar – Engl Lang Teaching, 1969
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Programs, Language Teachers
McLaughlin, Barry – 1978
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the literature on second language acquisition in childhood, viewed in terms of contemporary process models. After a general introduction on bilingualism in society, six major topics are considered: first-language acquistion, language acquisition and learning in childhood and adulthood, simultaneous…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Whitton, Kenneth S. – Modern Languages, 1974
Discusses statistical indication of decrease in students studying a second foreign language. Responses to a questionnaire sent out in 1973 to German teachers in the county of Yorkshire in an attempt to discover reasons for these statistics are analyzed and discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, German, Higher Education, Language Enrollment
Starr, S. Frederick – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1977
Notes the declining enrollments in language courses and the national lack of support for language studies. Five objectives to be sought in increasing university language studies, especially at advanced levels, are outlined. (CHK)
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Enrollment, Language Instruction, Language Programs
McCulloch, John I. B., Ed. – 1971
This newsletter discusses the teaching and role of English around the world. Articles also cover English-language media in a given country, and the opportunity and need for understanding and speaking English in that country. This particular issue contains items on English-language education and use in Africa, Mexico, St. Martin, Burma, West…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
McCulloch, John I. B., Ed. – 1971
This newsletter discusses the teaching and role of English around the world. Articles also cover English-language media in a given country, and the opportunity and need for understanding and speaking English in that country. This particular issue contains items on English-language education and use in India. (VM)
Descriptors: Educational Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
McCulloch, John I. B., Ed. – 1970
This newsletter discusses the teaching and role of English around the world. Articles also cover English-language media in a given country, and the opportunity and need for understanding and speaking English in that country. This particular issue contains items on English education and use in Yugoslavia, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Kenya, Pakistan,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
McCulloch, John I. B., Ed. – 1970
This newsletter discusses the teaching and role of English around the world. Articles also cover English-language media in a given country, and the opportunity and need for understanding and speaking English in that country. This particular issue contains items on English-language education and use in Malaysia, Singapore, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Rabin, Chaim – 1976
One of the main problems Israeli language planning has focused on is the linguistic integration of newcomers and of not-so-recent immigrants whose linguistic adaptation has been slow. The bodies active in this are the Section of Adult Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Absorption, and the Jewish Agency for Israel.…
Descriptors: Arabic, Diacritical Marking, Hebrew, Language Instruction
Adkins, Dorothy C.; And Others – 1967
During the summer of 1967, a 1-week training program was conducted at the University of Hawaii in which seven teachers and six aides were instructed in the use of the Bereiter-Egnelmann teaching strategy for language programs. The Bereiter-Engelmann approach involves concentration upon the development of language skills and facility with basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Language Ability
Alternative Forms of Immersion for Second Language Teaching. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 10.
Bruck, Margaret; And Others – 1975
This study focuses on the consequences of immersion experience as a means of developing second language skills. The students involved are 13 to 14 years of age, finishing grade 7 in the public school system. Two forms of immersion are compared, "early" and "late." Early immersion means that students had followed an immersion…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English, French, Immersion Programs
