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Moore, Zena T.; Bresslau, Barbara – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1996
A study investigated the effectiveness of training programs for teaching assistants (TAs) in language courses at the University of Texas at Austin. The programs provided for these students, offered through various language departments, are designed to introduce the most important teaching methodologies and provide opportunities for TAs to gain…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Feedback, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Lee, Lina – 1999
One of the challenges facing many foreign language programs today is maintaining high quality instruction despite increased enrollments and teacher shortages. One strategy for meeting this challenge is collaborative teaching. Collaborative teaching can occur in various settings and for different purposes. Studies of team-teaching have shown its…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Faculty, College Second Language Programs, Cooperation
Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2004
It seems irrefutable that the world is progressing in concert with computer science. Educational applications and projects for first and second language acquisition have not been left behind. However, currently it seems that the reputation of completely computer-based language learning courses has taken a nosedive, and, consequently there has been…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning
Jackson, K. David – 1992
The report details a federally-funded program at the University of Texas, Austin whose activities included: (1) an experimental summer intensive language institute to facilitate Brazilian Portuguese certification for nine certified secondary school teachers of Spanish; (2) writing and publication of a new textbook of Brazilian Portuguese for…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Conferences, Faculty Development, Higher Education