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Limaye, Mohan A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Describes a module used to teach ESL students to distinguish phrases from clauses and sentences from nonsentences or fragments, thus enabling them to edit the errors of punctuation out of their writing. A chart of four grammatical units in a hierarchy (single words, groups of words, clauses, and sentences) is included. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Grammar, Learning Modules
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Epes, Mary; And Others – Journal of Basic Writing, 1979
Describes the components of the writing course at York College of the City University of New York, focusing particularly on the writing laboratory with its self-instructional methods and its 13 modules on grammatical features. (RL)
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Expository Writing, Grammar, Higher Education
Johnson, Keith – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1979
Argues that a course-syllabus design based on grammatical structures is more effective in developing communicative skills than the use of "projects" leading to the establishment of a threshold level. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Guides, Grammar, Language Instruction
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Teichert, Herman U. – CALICO Journal, 1985
Reviews several German computer assisted instruction (CAI) programs and describes an experiment in CAI to discover if immediate reinforcement in self-pacing would enable the students to perform better on the final examination. The experiment was carried out with two homogeneous sections of second-semester students of German in high school.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, German, Grades (Scholastic), Grammar
Alberta Learning, Edmonton (Canada). Curriculum Standards Branch. – 1999
This teacher's guide provides an innovative program of studies for teaching Japanese at the secondary level, featuring a content-based curriculum, an integrated approach, results (outcomes)-based orientation, and the use of language for effective interaction. This guide provides teachers with suggestions for designing and planning a Japanese…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Grammar
Freeman, David E.; Freeman, Yvonne S. – 2001
This book purports to expand the learning potential of students by considering how the world inside the school interacts with outside social contexts. As the schooling of English language learners becomes ever more complex and political, this book has been updated in a second edition to address new trends and issues related to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Charts, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Anivan, Sarinee, Ed. – 1990
Papers on issues in second language teaching included in this volume are: "After Methods, What?" (Theodore S. Rodgers); "An Eternal Triangle? Roles for Teacher, Learners, and Teaching Materials in a Communicative Approach" (Rod Bolitho); "Task, Group, and Task-Group Interactions" (Michael H. Long); "A System of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education