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Ton Nu, Anh T.; Murray, Jill – TESL-EJ, 2020
Recent research studies in ESL/EFL contexts worldwide have shown a gap between the findings of pragmatics research and how the English language is actually taught and learnt in EFL classrooms, as well as a paucity of pragmatic information provided in ESL/EFL textbooks. Utilizing content analysis, this study explores the provision of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ait Bouzid Hassan; Erguig Reddad; Yeou Mohamed – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2019
This paper is built on the assumption that there are no perfect language teaching textbooks; therefore, it hopes to draw the attention of Moroccan BLT practitioners to the viability of using textbook evaluation to improve the quality of these teaching-learning materials. It aims to investigate ways in which grammar lessons are presented in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Alharbi, Aisha T. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study looked into Saudi female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perception of their motivational practices in the actual classroom in public and private schools. Forty (n=40) EFL teachers filled out a questionnaire consisting of forty-four motivational strategies that were based on a five-point Likert scale ranging from…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Zimele-Steina, Ineta – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2015
Currently, in Latvia, an adequate teaching aid that would meet the major requirements of young novice pianists is not available. Consequently, a question arises: "What could be an ideal teaching aid for them?" The opinion survey of 165 piano teachers from all regions of Latvia was carried out according to a three-point scale, in which 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Teacher Attitudes
Bray, Judith L.; Armstrong, Jane – 1986
In the fall of 1984, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) was awarded a grant from the U.S. Secretary of Education's Discretionary Fund to identify alternative state roles for improving instructional materials in mathematics. To help state leaders define an appropriate and effective role in upgrading these materials, ECS proposed first to…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Mathematics Education, Surveys, Teaching Methods
Smith, Richard W. – 1964
Criteria and suggestions for the development and selection of instructional materials for culturally disadvantaged youth are discussed from the point of view of the textbook publisher. Materials should be educationally valid (any subject can be taught intellectually and honestly to a child), should teach fundamental concepts, and should suggest…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Resources, Instructional Materials, Learning Experience
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Noblitt, James S. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Objectives, Grammar, Instructional Materials
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Al-Qahtani, Salem Ali Salem – Canadian Social Studies, 1998
Continues a discussion of the state of secondary social studies in Saudi Arabia. Discusses the preparation of textbooks and their use by Saudi teachers. Notes problems with the texts and teachers' use of nontext materials in their teaching. Offers conclusions and recommendations for improving social studies education in Saudi Arabia. (DSK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
White, Fred D. – 1984
Rhetoric textbooks continue to proliferate while writing teachers continue to grow more skeptical of their usefulness. The key question educators need to answer is whether all available composition textbooks are ineffective in the sense of being based on false notions about the composing process, or whether they are "intrinsically" ineffective.…
Descriptors: Discourse Modes, Instructional Materials, Rhetoric, Student Needs
Crymes, Ruth – 1970
The present document comprises a preliminary version of the introductory section and the appendix of a forthcoming ESL textbook, "Developing Fluency in English," by R. Crymes, G. James, L. Smith, and H. Taylor. The book was test taught during 1969-70 in the English Language Institute of the University of Hawaii, and an analysis of the findings is…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Linguistic Theory
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Nazarova, T. S.; Gospodarik, Iu. P. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The aim of this article is to map out the priority directions and shape the program for the development of the textbook. The tasks of adjusting the aims of education, renovating the priority directions in the selection of the content of areas of education and school subjects, and improving the tools and means, methods, and organizational forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Educational Environment
Crean, John E., Jr. – 1971
Suggestions for improving undergraduate language texts focus on four areas of concern. The author recommends that: (1) texts carefully delimit and objectively specify their scope, (2) writing be personalized, (3) materials be contextually exciting and challenging, and (4) objectives be "goal-oriented." (RL)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Instructional Materials, Instructional Program Divisions, Language Instruction
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Scarpella-Walls, Judith L. – 1975
Italian pedagogical texts in general hold the position that the partitive is not obligatory as it is in French. However, some of these texts devote a great deal of time to repetition and transformation drills while others never mention the construction at all until the chapters on the pronoun replacement of accusative complements. Italian phrase…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Idioms
Weinrib, Alice, Ed. – 1972
A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Wilga Rivers' textbook, "Teaching Foreign-Language Skills," is introduced by an address which focuses on the background, assumptions, and problems in writing the study. An overview of the educational scene and Dr. Rivers' work is also included. Chapters deal with: (1) objectives and methods, (2) the audiolingual…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Instructional Materials, Instructional Program Divisions
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Zuckerman, J. J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1986
Argues that the field of inorganic chemistry is facing an identity crisis. Proposes that the current call for curriculum reform in inorganic chemistry is an opportunity to return to a stronger discipline. Presents a history of freshman chemical education and recommends a new program for inorganic chemistry. (TW)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education
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