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Gxilishe, D. S.; van der Vyver, D. H. – Per Linguam: A Journal of Language Learning, 1987
This special issue of "Per Linguam" is entirely devoted to a study of language training in industry in the Cape Town metropolitan area of South Africa that examined the need for language instruction from both the management's and workers' points of view. Data were obtained from a literature review, a mail survey, and individual…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Role, Corporate Education, Employee Attitudes
Download full textSchuster, Don, Ed. – Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1987
The basic focus on this journal, which publishes a wide variety of articles on suggestive and accelerative learning, is Suggestopedia theory, research, and application. Articles in the volume presented here include: "The Effects of Superlearning on Retention/Hypermnesia of Rare English Words in College Students" (Lynn D. Anderson);…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Classroom Techniques
Portes, Pedro R., Ed. – Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1993
Issue 1 and 2 is a special issue devoted to the cultural-historical school of thought about mental development based on the work of Lev Vygotsky. The four articles that discuss a cross section of issues from the Vygotskyan Paradigm are as follows: "Mind as a Cultural Achievement: Implications for IQ Testing" (Michael Cole); "Children's Social…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adult Education, Attitude Change, Classroom Environment
Discovering Our Experiences: Studies in Bilingual/ESL Education, 1993
This new serial publication is designed to provide teachers, administrators, and policy makers who work with English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students with a forum for presenting innovations, concerns, and recommendations related to the schooling of language minority students. The main section of the publication, "Describing Our…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Educational Attitudes
Huxur, Gulbahar; Mansfield, Earl; Nnazor, Reginald; Schuetze, Hans; Segawa, Megumi – CSSHE Professional File, 1996
This paper examines the learning needs and adaptation problems of foreign graduate students, and is based on the experiences of the five co-authors' graduate studies in Canada and the United States. It reviews the factors that contributed to their decision to study abroad, pre-sojourn expectations and arrival, their arrival in the host country,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Instruction, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
Newsletter of the Japanese Language Teachers Network, 1995
These newsletter issues explore topics of interest to Japanese language teachers in the United States. Issues contain feature articles, book and computer software reviews, activities and worksheets for classroom use, letters to the editor, news of regional conferences and activities, announcements, new resources, and employment opportunities.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Book Reviews, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Straight, H. Stephen, Ed. – 1994
The papers in this special issue provide both a general overview and detailed discussion of specific examples of the languages across the curriculum (LAC) movement that is currently gaining momentum in colleges and universities in the United States. Papers include: (1) "International Students as Resource Specialists: Binghamton's Languages…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Attitudes, Educational Strategies, Foreign Students
FLES NEWS, 1992
Articles in the three Volume 5 issues of the National Network for Early Language Learning newsletter include: "Young Authors--A Double Success" (Carolyn Andrade); "Teacher Preparation for Elementary School Foreign Language Programs" (Carol Ann Pesola); "Strategies in a Small School Setting: The Filley FLES Program"…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
FLES News, 1990
These three issues of the FLES News newsletter contain the following articles: "What I Learned in Second Grade: A French Teacher's Experience" (Pat Westphal); "Foreign Language Program Articulation: Building Bridges from Elementary to Secondary School" (Jo Anne Wilson; an ERIC Digest); "How Do Principals View Foreign…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education
CATESOL Journal, 1998
Articles in this issue of the professional journal of California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) include: "A High School/University E-mail Partnership Project" (Rita El-Wardi, Ann Johns); "Asian International Students' Preferences for Learning in American Universities" (Jose Galvan, Yoshifumi…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Book Reviews, Classroom Environment
Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1995
Papers on foreign language education include: "Beliefs About Language Learning: A Study of Korean University Students Learning English" (Susan N. Truitt), which looked at the influence of cultural background and experience on language learning attitudes; "Motivation as a Two-Sided Coin: Motivational Differences Between College-Level…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Chinese, Classroom Communication, College Students
Madden, John, Ed.; Johanson, Robert, Ed.; Carpenter, Mark, Ed. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1997
Four papers on second language learning are include. "Comparing Native and Nonnative Speakers' Error Correction in Foreign Language Writing" (Catherine A. Jolivet) examines differences between native and nonnative French speaking teachers in their error correction on students' compositions. "ESL Students' Opinions About Instruction in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Sadtono, Eugenius, Ed. – 1991
A selection of papers on second language learning includes: "Second Language Acquisition Research in the Language Classroom" (David Nunan); "A Place for Second Language Acquisition in Teacher Development and in Teacher Education Programmes" (Rod Bolitho); "Dimensions in the Acquisition of Oral Language" (Martin Bygate, Don Porter); "The Learner's…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Breathnech, Diarmaid, Ed. – Contact Bulletin, 1999
This document contains 26 issues (the entire output for the 1990s) of this publication dedicated to the study and preservation of Europe's less spoken languages. Some issues are only in French, and a number are in both French and English. Each issue has articles dealing with minority languages and groups in Europe, with a focus on those in…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Irish, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education., 2002
Articles are divided into two sections. Section 1, "Research and Theory, includes: "The Influence of Pronunciation Instruction on the Pronunciation of English Word-Final Consonants by Brazilian Learners" (Roseanne Silveira); "Perceptions, Interactions and Immersion: A Cross-Comparative Case Study of African-American Students'…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Black Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
