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Jafari Abdala; Sharifa Juma – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate an in-service training (INSET) programme for improving the quality of English language teaching in Zanzibar's secondary schools. Specifically, there were two objectives: i) to explore the teachers' views on the zanzibar improvement students prospect (ZISP) training programme in improving the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chien, Chin-Wen – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study focused on 22 Taiwanese pre-service teachers' perceptions of school-based English camps. Based on the data analysis of the final projects, the questionnaire, and participants' self-evaluation, peer-evaluation, and two in-service English teachers' evaluation, this study has the following major findings. First, participants' perceptions…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Atai, Mahmood Reza; Mazlum, Farhad – Curriculum Journal, 2013
The present study investigates English language teaching (ELT) curriculum planning in Iran's Ministry of Education and its implementation by teachers. We studied programme evaluation; needs analysis; the ELT-specific documents; communication channels between planning and practice levels; teacher evaluation and student assessment; interpretation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – 1984
Implementation of a language modernization process such as one occurring in the Pacific basin is as important as the policy development behind it. Three critical factors in implementation are teacher training, the development of good teaching materials, and a plan for evaluating program effectiveness. Attempts to meet the need for good…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Planning
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Kiely, Richard – ELT Journal, 1996
Evaluates a materials writing approach to professional development in English language teaching (ELT). The context is the training of teacher trainers, and the specific focus is a United Kingdom course for ELT professionals from Polish teacher training institutions. The article describes the background to the course, analyzes teacher training…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Objectives, English (Second Language), English Instruction
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Basic Continuing Education. – 1973
A project was designed to demonstrate that the inservice education of adult basic education teachers could be individualized. To accomplish this objective, the project (1) developed a self-instructional training course for teachers of English as a Second Language to adults, (2) used these course materials as the basis for training (on an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, English (Second Language), Individualized Instruction
Brown, James Dean – 1995
A systematic approach to second language curriculum development is outlined, enumerating the phases and activities involved in developing and implementing a sound and effective language program. The first chapter describes a system whereby all language teaching activities can be classified into approaches, syllabuses, techniques, exercises, or…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Literacy Council of Alaska, Fairbanks. – 1984
This manual addresses a variety of issues in the recruitment and training of volunteer English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers. Sections on general topics focus on: recruiting tutors, recruiting students, determining when and where to train volunteers, developing the training workshop agenda, evaluating the workshop, introducing the training…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Diagnostic Tests
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