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Barjesteh, Hamed; Birjandi, Parviz; Maftoon, Parviz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study is a report on the design, development, and validation of a model within the main tenets of critical pedagogy (CP) with a hope to implement in education in general and applied linguistics in particular. To develop a transformative L2 materials preparation (TLMP) model, the researchers drew on Crawford's (1978) principles of CP as a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Language Planning, Material Development
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Stoller, Fredricka L.; Robinson, Marin S. – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
This article highlights aspects of an interdisciplinary (chemistry-applied linguistics) English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course- and materials-development project. The project was aimed at raising genre awareness among chemistry students and faculty, in addition to improving students' disciplinary reading and writing. As part of the project,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Applied Linguistics, Journal Articles, Audiences
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Penfield, Susan D.; Tucker, Benjamin V. – Language and Education, 2011
This paper explores the distance between documenting and revitalizing endangered languages and indicates critical points at which applied linguistics can play a role. We look at language documentation, language revitalization and their relationship. We then provide some examples from our own work. We see the lack of applied linguistics as a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Role
Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The Language Resource Centers (LRC) program provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate resource centers that serve to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages. Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education. Duration of the grant is four years. Center activities…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers
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Lim, Jason Miin-Hwa – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
As university students are frequently given the tasks of writing research reports to fulfil their respective programme requirements, teaching novice writers to present the results of their reports understandably constitutes an essential component of English lessons at tertiary level. While past research has shown that results are consistently…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Language Styles, Writing Research, Research Methodology
Dordevic, Radmila – Glottodidactica, 1975
Outlines a methods for applying the findings of contrastive analysis to the development of pedagogical materials. (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Instructional Materials
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
Duffy, Carolyn B. – 1970
Foreign language teaching is currently in a state of flux, as is natural when any discipline is undergoing basic theoretical and procedural revision. The behaviorist trends applied to the audio-lingual habit theory were a major break-through for foreign language teaching, and skills ignored by the grammar-translation method were brought to the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Instruction
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1971
The ability to anticipate elements in sequence is the foundation of all language skills. Because of its naturally high redundancy, it is almost always possible in the normal use of language to partially predict what will come next in a sequence of elements. The central feature of language processing is expectancy for successive elements. A very…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Expectation, Language
Redard, F., Ed.; And Others – 1979
This special issue concerns the content, function, and form of instructional materials dealing with second language instruction. The following articles appear: (1) "Deliberate Semantics--an 'Interventionist' Approach to Second Language Teaching Methodology," by A.P.R. Howatt; (2) "Sprechakte und Sprachunterricht (Speech Acts and Language…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Development
OHANNESSIAN, SIRARPI; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS ANNOTATED REFERENCE LIST IS A COMPANION VOLUME TO "PART 1, TEXTS, READERS, DICTIONARIES, TESTS," AND FOLLOWS THE SAME FORMAT. THE FIRST SECTION, BACKGROUND MATERIALS, COVERS TEXTS IN LINGUISTICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND PERIODICALS. THE SECOND SECTION, METHODOLOGY, COVERS LANGUAGE TEACHING IN GENERAL, PREPARATION AND…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Educational Media, English (Second Language)
Early, P. B. – 1976
English is now the leading foreign language in Croatia. Within the framework of a general reform of the Yugoslavian education system, between 1972 and 1975, a particular attempt has been made to reform the ELT program in the four-year secondary-school cycle. One important distinction to be made was that of the differing needs of students in the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Riley, P. – 1974
The aim of this paper is to describe certain characteristic aspects of the work of C.R.A.P.E.L. (Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pedagogiques en Langues), and, in doing so, to outline the overall approach and the conceptual framework on which that work is based. The description of the nature and organization of C.R.A.P.E.L. is followed by a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids