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Peer reviewedSood, S. C. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Describes the problems Hindi students have with the indefinite article "a/an". They use one or the other dependent upon whether or not the following noun or adjective begins with an orthographic vowel, rather than a phonological one (producing "an European"). Suggestions for improvement using the students' native language are given. (PJM)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Hindi
Sanchez, James Joseph – 1985
An annotated bibliography of universally available curriculum materials for Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri, Khowar, Marathi, Nepali, and Panjabi contains listings for 33 items available through the large depository systems of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and ERIC. Some are available only in microfiche. An index categorizes the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Hindi, Indo European Languages, Instructional Materials
Molteno, Marion – 1986
This methods and materials guide for native language instruction for immigrants in British elementary and secondary schools includes discussions of the needs of the learners, the traditional approach to native language instruction, experimentation with new methods through bilingual books, the teaching of reading for information and pleasure, the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals
Khan, Sughra B. Choudry; Molteno, Marion – 1991
A resource guide for teachers of Urdu, particularly in Britain, is designed to help them improve the conditions of Urdu instruction in a variety of ways, including pressing the local education authority for better educational provision, creating instructional materials, and making the best use of available equipment and techniques. The first of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Educational Objectives
PDF pending restorationMoore, Helen H. – 1994
The illustrated guide provides vocabulary for common classroom terminology in 15 languages: Arabic; Bengali; Chinese; Farsi; Haitian-Creole; Hindi; Italian; Korean; Polish; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Spanish; Tagalog; Urdu; and Vietnamese. The languages are those most commonly spoken by immigrants to the United States. For each language there are…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Classroom Communication
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1999
The purpose the Native Language Literacy Screening Device (NLLSD) is to give English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners a sense of the native language literacy levels of learners coming into their programs. This is worth knowing because when learners have had limited schooling in their first language instructional strategies used…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Albanian, Arabic
