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Download full textEl-Kogali, Safaa El Tayeb, Ed.; Krafft, Caroline, Ed. – World Bank, 2020
Education, which has been at the heart of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's history and civilizations for centuries, has a large untapped potential to contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth. The region has invested heavily in education for decades, but it has not been able to reap the benefits of its investments.…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Human Capital, Well Being, Educational Change
Direct linkPacheco, Mariana, Ed.; Morales, P. Zitlali, Ed.; Hamilton, Colleen, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
The purpose of "Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices" is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Applied Linguistics
Davison, Jon, Ed.; Daly, Caroline, Ed.; Moss, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Debates in English Teaching" explores the major issues all English teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It engages with established and contemporary debates, promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Creativity, Social Class, Writing (Composition)
Charity Hudley, Anne H.; Mallinson, Christine – Teachers College Press, 2010
In today's culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies to support student achievement while fostering positive…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Standard Spoken Usage, Discussion, Language Variation
Yiakoumetti, Androula, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to "harness" this diversity for learners' benefit. It challenges the largely…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Pidgins, Creoles
Feuerstein, Reuven; Lewin-Benham, Ann – Teachers College Press, 2012
In this unique collaboration, the authors bring to life the theory of mediated learning. Through numerous examples and scenarios from classrooms and museums, they show how mediated learning helps children to become more effective learners. Readers learn the steps in the process, including analyzing the child's problem, teaching the child to focus…
Descriptors: Museums, Parents, Exhibits, Theory Practice Relationship
Johnson, Eric W. – 1976
Written to provide a quick, simple, practical reference, this handbook contains explanations and examples of the use of English. Entries, arranged alphabetically, may be as specific as "bibliography,""colons,""dashes,""footnotes," and "prefixes" or as general as articles on cliches, books, figurative language, frame tests, grammar, and plagiarism.…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Guides, Punctuation
Moulton, Jenni Karding; Moulton, William G. – 1944
This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks in more than 30 languages initially prepared and published for the armed forces and later offered to the general public. The method used in this manual requires either that a native speaker of German be on hand during the course or that the recorded voice of a native speaker be used. Records and…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, German, Language Instruction
Foster, Joseph F. – 1976
Current research in linguistic typology shows some syntactic processes, such as rightward dislocation of modifiers, to be characteristic of certain types of languages, and that a language of that type without such processes is "unnatural" and likely to develop them. For instance, almost all languages with order Verb-Object (VO) have dislocation…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Dialects, English, English Instruction
Chamberlain, Bobby J., Ed.; Harmon, Ronald M., Ed. – 2003
This dictionary is intended to bridge the gap between the basic, generally simple language learned in the classroom and the preponderance of nonformal and idiomatic language used in Brazilian society on all levels and in contemporary Brazilian literature. It is the product of 15 years of systematic research involving interviews and conversations…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Idioms, Portuguese
Gilbert, Judy B. – 2001
This book is designed to give beginning students immediate help with English pronunciation. The book concentrates on topics, such as rhythm, intonation, and sounds as grammar cues, that will make the biggest difference in students' ability to understand and communicate with others. With its graphics-based approach, the book makes it possible to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Independent Study, Listening Comprehension, North American English
Redd, Teresa M.; Schuster Webb, Karen – National Council of Teachers of English, 2005
In this book, Teresa M. Redd and Karen Schuster Webb explain not only what African American English (AAE) is, but also what role it may play in students' mastery of Standard Written English. Designed especially for writing teachers, this volume is a concise, coherent, and current source that summarizes the major schools of thought about…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, North American English, Writing Teachers, Black Dialects
Rubin, Joan, Ed.; Shuy, Roger, Ed. – 1973
This volume contains nine papers presented at a discussion session on language planning at the 1972 Georgetown University Round Table. Papers by Bjorn H. Jernudd and Joan Rubin emphsize language planning as only one kind of treatment for language problems. Aaron Bar-Adon and T. P. Gorman discuss language treatment activities, indicating that local…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Planning, Language Standardization, Language Usage
Bailey, Richard W. – 1991
An exploration of the history and status of the English language around the world focuses on how beliefs and attitudes have shaped and continue to shape the role of the language. An introductory section examines how perceptions of standard English have paralleled a tendency toward increased linguistic intolerance in the twentieth century.…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Beissel, George R. – 1976
The detailed method for teaching writing presented in this book consists of a highly structured program of grammar, usage, and composition, using a modified Skinnerian, easy-to-difficult technique. The first part of the book contains five chapters which discuss the problem of teaching writing, reasons for studying grammar, which grammar should be…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grammar, Kernel Sentences, Program Descriptions
