This report is a synthesis of research, challenges, and best practices in the education of secondary English Learners (ELs). It incorporates a summary of three days of presentations and discussions by key national experts in the spring of 2005, observations and findings from our own research, and key issues from the research literature. The report…

Confronted with a world that is strikingly different from what it was just a decade ago, the United States faces rapidly shifting economic, political, and national security realities and challenges. To respond to these changes it is essential that our institutions of higher education graduate globally competent students. This article addresses…

Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated September 15th through October 15th, is a great opportunity to kick off a whole year of cultural discovery. This article presents 25 great ideas for Hispanic heritage. These 25 fresh ideas--from Aztec math to Carnaval masks--are easy to put together, and they offer students the chance to celebrate their own…

Most studies evaluating the effectiveness of strategy training for L2/FL learners have been product-oriented, i.e. they have quantitatively measured improvements in learners' test scores following the completion of a strategy training programme. However, such evaluation methods are only partial, and they must be supplemented by a qualitative…

Mount Gravatt Teachers College, Brisbane, Australia, has been studying those aspects of the reading process that are especially significant in learning to read in a second language. The findings are summarized here. (CK)

Described a program of bilingual learning that included different races of students and a goal directed toward hurdling built-in cultural advantages or handicaps. (Author/RK)

Author discussed a new syllabus, a new image of what an educated man ought to be. (Author/RK)

Four experiments evaluate the effectiveness of a two-stage mnemonic procedure, the keyword method, for learning Spanish vocabulary. This method proved highly effective, yielding in one experiment a final test score of 88 percent correct for the keyword group compared to 28 percent for the control group. (Author/RC)

This book covers many practical aspects of language learning. The first section entitled "The 'Whys' of Language Learning" discusses such topics as the following: (1) everyone can learn a language; (2) easier and more difficult elements in a language and classification of languages according to difficulty for speakers of English; (3) length of…

The purpose of this guide is to teach English speakers accurate pronunciation of the Modern Standard Arabic phonemes. Included are discussions concerning attitudes toward language learning in general, basic linguistic concepts, a descriptive survey of the phonemes with detailed instructions for their production, and lists of minimal pairs…

The main function of contrastive analysis in language teaching should be that of explaining why errors occur rather than predicting error (which is best accomplished by careful statistical analysis of actual mistakes). For example, although both Russian and French students of English will omit the indefinite article in such sentences as "My father…

Listed here are more than 200 published and unpublished articles, books, papers, reviews, and other documents by John B. Carroll, covering the period 1938 - 1968. Among the many topics represented here are titles in the fields of educational psychology, programmed instruction, psycholinguistics (especially as applied to second language learning),…

Both sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics are relatively recent areas of study and they tend to overlap. One way in which they overlap is in the selection of topics, among them bilingualism and linguistic relativity. Studies of linguistic relativity demonstrate that, although there are clear surface distinctions between the way languages map…