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Tapping Technology in Creating Product Development Studies: Reflections on an ESP-Business Project
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Yeh, Aiden – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This paper describes a teacher's reflections on a technology-enhanced project-based learning approach to teaching an ESP-business lesson on product development, which is part of the curriculum for Conference English and Meetings Practice (CEMP), a business-track course for the Adult Continuing Education program at a private university in southern…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Using Blended Learning as an Innovative Delivery Model for an In-House Language Program
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Gadbois, Manon; Quildon, Denise – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2013
This paper reports on the development and implementation in 2012 of McGill University's French at Work program for McGill employees, using a blended learning model. The program is an example of how a reduction in face-to-face teaching presents one solution to employees' scheduling constraints and how this model might offer suggestions for the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Management Systems, French, Second Language Instruction
The Adult Student in Foreign Language Classes.
Witherell, Louise R.; Kersten, Raquel – 1983
Foreign language teaching techniques and materials applicable to adult continuing education are examined. Continuing education refers to an older student's pursuit of additional education of any sort. Often the adult student desires instruction in foreign language and culture. A continuing education language course will have students of widely…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Continuing Education, Second Language Instruction
Creative Writing Is Greek to Me: The Continuing Education of a Language Teacher.
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Ransdell, D. R. – ELT Journal, 1993
A dramatic, eye-opening way for language teachers to improve their teaching skills is by studying another language. Useful and beneficial outcomes of further language study are that teachers can relieve frustrations of beginning language students, reconsider their own teaching principles, and experience another instructor's methods first hand.…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Creative Writing, Greek, Language Teachers
The Effect of "Superlearning Techniques" on the Vocabulary Acquisition and Alpha Brainwave Production of Language Learners.
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Wagner, Michael J.; Tilney, Germaine – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
A group of adult intensive English students, language teachers, and graduate music education students were taught a 300-word German vocabulary list in a five-week period, some with and some without Baroque music but with superlearning techniques, and some by traditional techniques. Accelerated learning by superlearning methods could not be…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education, English (Second Language)
Adults Learning Languages: A CILT Guide to Good Practice
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Harnisch, Henriette, Ed.; Swanton, Pauline, Ed. – CILT, the National Centre for Languages, 2004
"Adults Learning Languages" is aimed at those responsible for teaching languages across AE, FE and HE. In the much-changed world of post-19 languages, new funding and inspection regimes with revised needs for quality assurance are challenging practitioners to adapt and review approaches. This book offers teachers of languages to adults tools to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Quality Control