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Peer reviewedLong, Donna R. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
Describes the implementation of a first-year comprehension-based Spanish language program at New Mexico State University. Includes a discussion of the history of the program and of the problems encountered in changing a traditional curriculum. Also describes the materials, classroom practice, and testing and evaluation techniques used in the…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Language Enrollment
Download full textFrankel, Carole N. – 1994
To address the special second language learning needs of deaf college students, a project was undertaken at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia), the world's only four-year liberal arts university for the deaf, to create 36 videotaped lessons in grammar, signed in American Sign Language, for first-year French and Spanish instruction. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, College Second Language Programs, Communication Problems, Deafness
Gonzalez, Ann – 1990
As part of a communicative approach and to provide non-linguistic information to students, authentic videotape recordings were incorporated into the summer intensive Spanish course in the University of South Carolina's master's program in international business. Students were introduced to the tapes by first seeing segments without sound, both to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, College Second Language Programs, Cultural Awareness
Saint Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN. – 1992
In a 3-year, federally-funded program, faculty at St. Olaf College (Minnesota) have developed a series of behavioral and natural science courses in which students with at least the fourth semester of foreign language do a portion of the course readings in the second language and meet once a week to discuss them in that language with the regular…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, College Curriculum, College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development
Jackson, K. David – 1992
The report details a federally-funded program at the University of Texas, Austin whose activities included: (1) an experimental summer intensive language institute to facilitate Brazilian Portuguese certification for nine certified secondary school teachers of Spanish; (2) writing and publication of a new textbook of Brazilian Portuguese for…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Conferences, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Berney, Tomi D.; Watson, Heriberto – 1989
In its fifth year of funding, Project TRIUNFE served 413 limited-English-proficient speakers of Spanish, French/Haitian Creole, Asian languages, and Polish at John Jay High School in Brooklyn. The program's aim was to supplement the high school's transitional bilingual education program, emphasizing computer instruction, partial English immersion,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Science Education, Counseling Services, Curriculum Development
