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Saskia Kersten Ed.; Christian Ludwig Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of born-digital texts in the digital…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Özge Guney – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As English has become a global lingua franca used by a greater number of nonnative speakers than native speakers, a focus on native speaker norms in English language teaching (ELT) has become obsolete. There has been a call to incorporate different varieties of Englishes (native, nonnative, and nativized) and related cultures in both teacher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Techniques
Nunan, David – 1988
The use of the learning task as a basic planning and instructional tool for communicative second language instruction is discussed, and considerations and procedures for designing such tasks are outlined. A task is defined as a piece of classroom work that involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing, or interacting in the target…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
Lo, Regina Suk Mei; Li, Henry Chi Fai – Forum, 1998
Discusses how songs can be used to motivate students in the English-as-a-foreign-language classroom. Songs develop students' language abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing and can be used to teach sentence patterns, vocabulary, pronunciation, rhythm, adjective, adverbs, and so on. Learning English through songs also provides a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Material Development, Second Language Instruction
Kachru, Yamuna – 1985
Serious basic research leading to adequate descriptions of English and other languages of wider communication around the world in their sociolinguistic contexts is needed. This must be accompanied by applied research in second language acquisition and innovative research in teaching methodology and curriculum and materials development. With the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Language Variation
Javetz, Esther – 1986
The development of interactive video materials for developing listening comprehension in beginning learners of Hebrew as a second language is described. Initially, videotapes presenting stories in the form of interviews set in Israel were designed and produced according to current instructional design theory. These were viewed by the prospective…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Hebrew, Higher Education
Higgins, John – 1988
A discussion of computer-assisted second language learning focuses on the kinds of computer software currently available and discusses briefly how they can be used in language instruction. Four types of software are distinguished, including: (1) that in which the computer controls, to a great extent, the nature and order of events (e.g., drills,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, English (Second Language)
Rodgers, Ted – 1988
This discussion of cooperative second language learning describes the approach in terms of response to three questions: WHO? WHAT? and WHY? The first section "WHO: Major Directors and Actors," chronicles the evolution of cooperative learning in general and cooperative language learning in particular, citing some specific methods and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies
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McCoy, Ingeborg Rueborg – IALL Journal of Language Learning Technologies, 1990
Provides the theoretical underpinnings to a very successful project that involves high school teachers in the development of carefully sequenced student materials for the German video series "Deutschlandspiegel." (22 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Curriculum Design, German
Hughes, John P. – 1960
Concepts pertaining to the language laboratory are clarified for the layman unfamiliar with recent educational developments in foreign language instruction. These include discussion of: (1) language laboratory components and functions, (2) techniques used in the laboratory, (3) new linguistic methods, (4) laboratory exercises, (5) traditional…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Classroom Techniques, Colleges, Cost Effectiveness
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Instructional Services. – 2000
This guide is a companion document to the revised "Second Language Standard Course for Study," which was approved by the North Carolina State Board of Education in November 1999. It was designed to address needs that were identified by teachers and supervisors during the curriculum development process. The guide is divided into three…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna – 1990
An interactive video project for second language instruction is described. Using television news broadcasts, the educational software package can also be used for area or media studies. Prototypes have been developed for English and German instruction. The program is designed to support learner comprehension of authentic news broadcasts by…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training
Brown, Eric, Comp. – 1986
The proceedings of the workshop on the interface between humans and machines in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) include the texts of four papers, descriptions of the software demonstrated, an information exchange section, a report of the plenary session, a comment on the workshop, a list of participants, a review of current research in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Morley, Joan – 1984
An examination of materials development for independent study in listening comprehension of English as a second language (ESL) begins with an outline of current directions in second language instruction. The discussion that follows has two parts. The first is a review of some changing perspectives on the role of listening in language learning and…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
Cadierno, Teresa, Ed. – 1999
Essays on second-language (L2) listening comprehension include: "On Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition: Interactional and Psycholinguistic Perspectives" (Teresa Cadierno), a general theoretical overview of these processes; "Listening to Lectures" (Anne Jensen), a discussion of some characteristics of lectures and description of a study…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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