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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Toronto (Ontario). Education Div. – 1978
Ten units of first grade language instruction are presented in English, as a course guide for teachers who are expected to use only an Algonkian language in the classroom. The units, which are thematically titled (e.g. "The Little House"), cover two to four weeks' teaching time each. Classroom activities involve a variety of realia.…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Education
Hall, Wendell H. – Utah Language Quarterly, 1977
Kermess is a word of Flemish origin used in the course of time to designate a periodical outdoor festival. Known as "la kermesse" in France, "die Kermes" in Germany, and "la quermes" in Spain, by any name it has come to mean a small neighborhood carnival featuring games of chance and skill, music, refreshments,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Community Involvement, Enrichment Activities
Spolsky, Bernard, Ed.; Cooper, Robert, Ed. – 1977
This volume on bilingual education contains the following ten articles: "The Establishment of Language Education Policy in Multilingual Societies," by Bernard Spolsky, "Bilingualism and Bilingual Education-The Ancient World to the Renaissance," by E. Glyn Lewis, "The Sociology of Bilingual Education," by Joshua A. Fishman, "Linguistic Perspectives…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Galvez de Bracamonte, Teresa – 1975
This guide in Spanish provides performance criteria for evaluating the foreign language teacher. It provides an outline for analyzing the teacher's actions and teaching methods in the classroom. Through the evaluation by an outsider, the teacher can learn his or her faults in the views of others and can improve on them. The aspects to be analyzed…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Cohen, Allen Stephen – 1978
This story in Spanish and English is written for elementary school children in grades 1-5. The main character of the story is a star that is part of the Puerto Rican flag. The star leaves the flag and goes on a journey that is illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Schuster, Donald H., Ed. – The Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1976
Four articles report on the effectiveness of suggestive methods in foreign language instruction. Ray Benitez-Bordon reports on "Foreign Languaqe Learning via the Lozanov Method: Pilot Studies." Results of the two studies indicate great promise for the suggestive approach, and point to the needs for further research. In "The Sandy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Course Evaluation, Educational Research
Schuster, Donald H., Ed. – The Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1976
Eight reports are presented that examine some of the applications of the suggestive approach to classroom instruction: (1) "Discovering the Lozanov Method," by W. Jane Bancroft; (2) "Introduction to the Lozanov Method," by Donald H. Schuster; (3) Lozanov-type Suggestion Techniques for Remedial Reading," by Allyn Prichard;…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Language Instruction, Psychoeducational Methods
Pelletier, Corinne A.; Skinner, A. Neil – 1979
This audiolingual course in Fulfulde, a lingua franca for much of West Africa, is designed for teacher-assisted self-instruction. The course is designed to impart communicative competence in Fulfulde. Dialog memorization, vocabulary acquisition, and pronunciation drills are emphasized. Each of the 41 lessons covers two or three grammatical…
Descriptors: African Languages, Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Courses
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. – 1975
This bilingual-bicultural reader in Samoan and English is intended for elementary school children in a bilingual education setting. Pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the story of a young Samoan boy going fishing. (NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
Ala, Falana'i – 1977
This bilingual reader in Samoan and English is intended for elementary school children in a bilingual education setting. Photographs illustrate the story of a Samoan family making preparations for Flag Day. (NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, NY. – 1976
A card game designed to accompany "Andere Lander, Andere Sitten," a self-instructional unit for second-year high school students of German, is presented. The object of the game is to go through, in the proper order, a day of eating meals while traveling in Germany. There are cards for each event. The rules of the game are presented, and the cards,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Cultural Traits
Santos, Rolando A. – 1977
This trilingual-bicultural reader in Pilipino (Tagalog), Ilokano, and English is intended for elementary school children in a bilingual education setting. Pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the story of a Filipino-American family celebrating Christmas. (NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1976
The following curriculum units comprise this course book: (1) Germans in a New Home, (2) Contributions of the Germans in Wisconsin, (3) A Letter to Germany, (4) Germans Come to Kingston, (5) First a Soldier, Then a Man of the Church (about Heinrich von Rohr), (6) A Visiting German, and (7) Germans and Music. Each unit begins with a reading of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Education, German
Backman, Nancy – 1977
This study is concerned with problems in language learners' intonation of English. Ten intonation problems were found in the learner speech of two adult Spanish-speaking males: (1) range of pitch, (2) initial rise, (3) final fall, (4) rise to final stressed syllable, (5) placement of prominence, (6) final rise for questions, (7) total question…
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Language Centre Journal, 1979
The following articles appear in this issue of a journal devoted to teaching English for science and technology in Kuwait: (1) "An Approach to the Implementation of Dr. J.L. Munby's 'Communicative Syllabus Design'" by Bill Robinson, (2) "Une experience d'elaboration de materiel pedagogique" (An Experiment in Developing Teaching…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Curriculum Design, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
