With the increasing need for specialized foreign language instruction, teachers need to understand the different kinds of language needs and language types corresponding to the professions and disciplines. (MSE)

Discusses a sixth-grade assignment to conduct an interview with someone to find out as much as possible about that individual's profession as well as ways in which mathematics are used in that profession. Peer teaching, communication, and reasoning were natural consequences of this activity. (AIM)

Although the emphasis is on occupational training in this text intended for the beginning instructor who possesses subject-matter expertise which he wishes to convert or translate into a successful training program, the techniques and approach described can be transferred to a variety of settings. Using a systems approach, techniques are presented…

Proposes that technical writing teachers ask their students to analyze the ethos--the revelation of a writer's character through the rhetorical choices a writer makes--of the profession they are preparing to enter. Provides examples of such analysis. (RL)

The resource guide lists and describes over 100 professional and vocational occupations available to migrant youth in the area of the social sciences. Occupations are organized in eight major categories: social or public service, including protective services; government service; transportation; public utilities; education; communication;…

Describes an instructional activity in which students are given false data in a research methods class. Finds that all students accepted the data but that seniors were more skeptical than sophomores or juniors. Determines that students agree that the approach helped them learn about the costs and benefits of deception in research. (CFR)

This teaching unit, Professional Sports, is one of a series of curriculum guides developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking 5th and 6th grade elementary classroom experiences with the world of work. These lessons about occupations in…

This report contains guidelines to vocational/occupational instructors who are developing or evaluating curricula to train workers for entry into a particular job and guidelines for students to determine the competencies they must have to enter a particular job or group of jobs. It includes descriptions (job sheets) of forty-one jobs, with job…

A collection of essays on pronunciation instruction theory and practice includes: "Teaching Pronunciation as Communication" (Marianne Celce-Murcia); "Learner Variables and Prepronunciation Considerations in Teaching Pronunciation" (Rita Wong); "Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension" (Judy B. Gilbert); "Pronunciation Tutorials for Nonnative…