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Buckingham, Thomas – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article states that advanced composition skills must provide students with means of becoming independent writers, able to monitor their own writing and to know the means to solve problems of effective written communication. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Paragraph Composition
Approaches to Observation in Classroom Research: Macroscopic and Microscopic Views of L2 Classrooms.

Spada, Nina; Lyster, Roy – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Describes the development and organization of the Colt (Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching) observation scheme and Lyster and Ranta's (1997) error treatment model, instruments including predetermined categories to describe features of instructional input and interaction in second language classrooms. Concludes that the choice of…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Course Objectives, Error Analysis (Language), Interaction Process Analysis