This six-week action research study explored the use of a media-based adaptation of a popular student-centered, extensive reading-based activity known as Literature Circles (LCs). Twenty Chinese students decided upon groups and assigned themselves specific roles before viewing episodes of a selected television series for homework. The prepared…

Little by little, (or, simply, MALL) is taking force in the field of education, as it supports language blended learning and language learning ubiquity. The study presented here belongs in the Social Ontology-based Cognitively Augmented Language Learning Mobile Environment (SO-CALL-ME) research project, whose final aim is to design and create…

This paper explores a pedagocial approach to teaching oral English---Conversation Analysis. First, features of spoken language is described in comparison to written language. Second, Conversation Analysis theory is elaborated in terms of adjacency pairs, turn-taking, repairs, sequences, openings and closings, and feedback. Third, under the…

Background: University Entrance Examinations provide information the student's opportunities to succeed in their academic university career. However, the current foreign language paper of the Spanish University Entrance Examination does no permit to obtain enough evidence to make academic inferences. Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study was…

Theory-of-mind (ToM) abilities were studied in 176 deaf children aged 3 years 11 months to 8 years 3 months who use either American Sign Language (ASL) or oral English, with hearing parents or deaf parents. A battery of tasks tapping understanding of false belief and knowledge state and language skills, ASL or English, was given to each child.…

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) has recently moved from norm-referenced to standards-referenced assessment, including the incorporation of a substantial school-based summative oral assessment component into the compulsory English language subject in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE). Starting in…

Language arts programs are sometimes aimless because elementary teachers are not quite sure what is meant by the term "language arts." Often the typical language arts offering lacks a maintenance program which can reinforce learning and correct misinformation. Or, the pupils draw back when usage or mechanics are mentioned because they have…

CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ON DIFFERENCES IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION WERE STUDIED IN A PRELIMINARY PROJECT. DURING A 5-MONTH PERIOD, 75 EXPLORATORY AND 25 SUPPLEMENTARY TAPE INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INTERVIEWS WERE RECORDED FOR PREADOLESCENT, ADOLESCENT, AND ADULT NEGRO SUBJECTS. THE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE WAS…

Educators insure that black students will never learn to write as well as they can by convincing them of the myth that, as a people, the strength of blacks lies in oral communication. (EH)

In this investigation, 72 second-, fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-grade speakers of black English were studied in an attempt to determine whether a relationship exists between the speaking of black English and the reading of standard English. Two variables of oral language were examined: the degree of divergence from standard English and the ability…

Paper prepared under contract with the English Language Branch--Defense Language Institute, Lackland Air Force Base, Lackland, Texas, and delivered in 1971 to staff members of the Branch. (VM)

The Nonpublic School Program English as a Second Language was designed to provide remedial instruction in the English language with emphasis on oral English for those eligible non-English speaking pupils enrolled in Title I nonpublic schools. It operated in 89 schools and served over three thousand pupils in grades kindergarten through twelve. The…

This volume contains supplementary pronunciation drills for the English for Today program, Books I and II, for Vietnamese speakers. The supplement for Book I contains exercises on the English segmental phonemes in one-word context. Commentary intended for the teacher indicates potential trouble spots for Vietnamese learning English. The supplement…

Investigation of commonalities in children's language across tasks showed that children with literate and oral speech styles made both contrastive and similar types of adaptations when portraying events through play and oral narration. As they moved from playing to narrating, both groups edited more carefully and employed more explicit language.…