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Murphy, Dianna, Ed.; Evans-Romaine, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2016
A number of reports in the US have highlighted the country's need for improved second language skills for both national security and economic competitiveness. The Language Flagship program, launched in 2002, aims to raise expectations regarding language proficiency levels at the post-secondary level and to address structural gaps in the curricula…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs, Program Descriptions
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Thomson, Chihiro Kinoshita – Foreign Language Annals, 1998
Examines a junior teacher internship project in which a group of third-year Australian university students of Japanese participated regularly in first-year-Japanese classroom activities. Discusses learner autonomy and cooperative learning, the project procedures, and project evaluation in terms of reactions by both first-year and third-year…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, College Students, Cooperative Learning
Chung, Ulric; And Others – 1988
The Computer Assisted Language Learning Outreach Project for Education (CALLIOPE) was established in 1985 to enhance foreign language instruction in Illinois elementary and secondary schools through inservice teacher education in the form of short workshops, intensive summer institutes, and an internship program. The specific approach is to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs
Berney, Tomi D.; Rosenberg, Jan – 1989
In its fourth year, the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) component of the Summer Institute for Career Exploration (ICE) program was funded by the federal government's Emergency Immigrant Education Assistance program. Program goals were to help recent immigrants develop English language skills, introduce students to high school requirements and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Exploration, English (Second Language), Federal Programs
Guadalupe, Deana R. – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the Cognitive Academic Learning Approaches through ESL Content Area Instruction with Career Exploration Strategies (Project CALA)), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its fifth and last year of operation at International High School, a bilingual special alternative high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Business Skills
Ventouratos, Despina – 1993
Enhancement of Learning through an Integrated Teaching Environment (Project ELITE), a federally-funded bilingual education program, served 233 students of limited English proficiency in two high schools in Queens (New York) in its second year of operation. Participating students received instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL),…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Dropout Prevention
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Terry, Robert M., Ed. – 1991
Selected papers from the conference address four priorities in second language teaching: teacher education; instruction; curriculum; and testing. Papers include: "Listening Processes and Authentic Texts" (Donna Reseigh Long); "Directory of Foreign Language Teacher Preparation Programs in the United States: A Preliminary Report"…
Descriptors: Careers, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design