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Shallis, Susan – Training Officer, 1979
Using information from her pilot study at Brighton (England) Polytechnic and in-depth interviews at major British institutions teaching intensive foreign language courses to businessmen, the author discusses the meaning of "intensive" courses and their effectiveness, concluding that good intensive courses, properly selected, do provide…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Business Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Research
Cembalo, M. – 1973
Over a three-year period, from 1971 to 1973, a series of three experimental intensive language sessions was held in Malta for university professors and researchers who wanted to improve their knowledge of English as a second language. Each session consisted of from 20 to 30 participants and lasted 2 weeks. The general objectives of these courses…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Smith, Harlie L., Jr.; Senhadji, Mohammed Allal – 1969
This is the first in a set of two volumes of a Moroccan Arabic course. The volume contains 50 units preceeded by a description of the transcription system and a guide to pronunciation. All units include a dialogue in Arabic with an English translation, followed by notes on grammar and usage. Unit 7 introduces "situations," basically…
Descriptors: Arabic, Dialogs (Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials
Smith, Harlie L., Jr.; Senhadji, Mohammed Allal – 1970
This is the second in a set of two volumes of a Moroccan Arabic course. The volume contains 44 units. Each unit consists of a dialogue in Arabic with an English translation, followed by notes on grammar and usage, pattern drills, and "situations," which are essentially dialogues in English which the student is intended to translate. (CLK)
Descriptors: Arabic, Dialogs (Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials
Gruninger, Yvonne – 1977
Extracts from a journal kept by a French-speaking adult student in an intensive German language class are presented here. It is a critique of the audio-visual method, texts, teaching techniques, and students' reactions during the two parts of the course at the University of Berne. The extracts deal particularly with a comparison of the texts used…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Course Content
Pieron, C. – 1977
This article reports on observations made during an intensive course in French organized by a business firm for its immigrant Portuguese workers. The principal aim of this project was to study course materials as they are actually used. Special attention was therefore paid to: (1) teacher discourse, which, although an essential component of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, French
Wesche, Marjorie B. – 1977
The study described here sought to identify and define "learning behaviors" characteristic of those adult students who were highly successful in acquiring listening and speaking fluency in French in an intensive language training program. Data were collected from behavioral observation of students in the classroom, in-depth interviews with them,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Class Activities, French
