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Hurley, Joni – 1986
Second language classroom techniques and activities promoting oral proficency are suggested and discussed. The suggestions are based on a course organization that focuses on basic communicative goals and uses frequent conversation between paired students. The activities include retelling partner responses and situational role-playing. Approaches…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Organization
Download full textLomangino, Heide R. – 1986
If a student is to develop reading comprehension, he must possess and activate a number of linguistic and cognitive skills. He comes to the text with certain expectations and uses a cyclical process of sampling, predicting, testing, and confirming to understand it. The overall goal of reading instruction is to produce motivated, independent,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, Correlation, Decoding (Reading)
Smith, Frank – 1983
Miniaturized computer technology can raise both language and education beyond the current capacity to understand. Children's learning is more complex, powerful, and subtle than it is usually given credit for, and language is more elaborate and intricate than is generally realized. Computers must be used carefully, but they offer many…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education, English (Second Language)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 5 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the influence of background knowledge on non-native students' memory for reading passages, (2) the development of a reading textbook with a teacher's manual for English as a second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biculturalism, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism
Weiss, Maria J. – 1986
Six eclectic basal readers were evaluated to determine what basal readiness programs are teaching kindergarten and early first grade children. Each lesson was analyzed to discover the main purpose of instruction as stated in an objective or skill and the actual requirements placed upon the child during instruction. Using the recommendations from…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
Taylor, Nancy; Lenhart, Debra – 1984
This manual is one of four self-contained components of a larger handbook designed to assist secondary and postsecondary instructors and support staff in meeting the needs of limited-English-proficiency (LEP) students in vocational training programs. Together with an accompanying set of vocational English as a second language (VESL) vocabulary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Food Service, Learning Activities
Shay, Gail; Lenhart, Debra – 1984
This manual is one of four self-contained components of a larger handbook designed to assist secondary and postsecondary instructors and support staff in meeting the needs of limited-English-proficiency (LEP) students in vocational training programs. Together with an accompanying set of vocational English as a second language (VESL) vocabulary…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Learning Activities
Shay, Gail; Lenhart, Debra – 1984
This manual is one of four self-contained components of a larger handbook designed to assist secondary and postsecondary instructors and support staff in meeting the needs of limited-English-proficiency (LEP) students in vocational training programs. Together with an accompanying set of vocational English as a second language (VESL) vocabulary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Learning Activities, Limited English Speaking
Rwanika, Mwisha; And Others – 1986
The teacher's manual for Peace Corps volunteer language training in Ciluba is designed for introductory oral language instruction. It is intended to assist trainees in functioning in the language within at least 6 weeks, and to transmit cultural information about the host country through linguistic structures, texts, and discussion topics. It…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Cultural Education, Developing Nations
Pierce, Lorraine Valdez, Comp. – 1988
Adapted from a curriculum guide prepared by the Hartford, Connecticut Bilingual Program's Vocabulary Development Committee, this guide to vocabulary development in sheltered English offers practical ideas for content area instruction to limited-English-speaking students in the language classroom, with the objective of facilitating transition from…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Grade 8
Readence, John E., Ed.; Baldwin, R. Scott, Ed. – 1988
Concentrating on theoretical perspectives on reading, writing and language research, this yearbook contains 33 articles which cover the politics of literacy, emergent and early literacy, vocabulary, comprehension, content area reading, writing, and teacher effectiveness. Articles include: (1) "Tomorrow's Readers Today: Becoming a Profession of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy, Higher Education
Peck, Sandra – 1988
This reading manual is part of the package of materials developed for use in an English for Special Purposes project that offers classes in reading, grammar, and emergency care attendant training for limited English proficient students. An official course outline and course syllabus appear first. The eight lessons provided are designed to develop…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Critical Reading, Emergency Medical Technicians, Limited English Speaking
Collier, Catherine – 1977
This supplement to the Yup'ik as a Second Language (YSL) curriculum developed in 1976 was written to give new teachers directions for some of the earlier materials and provide supplementary materials and techniques for experienced teachers. Suggestions are made for modifying the elementary level oriented materials to suit secondary school…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The seven titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of training college students in listening and notetaking skills on learning from lecture, (2) an enriched language arts curriculum for gifted primary school students,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Dissertations
Ediger, Marlow – 1983
Old Order Amish are readily distinguishable from others in society by their dissociation from "modern" convenience and dress. Students in an Old Order Amish school in Iowa receive instruction in language arts from a secular basal language arts workbook, and a basal reader containing biblical stories. Comprehension of content is evaluated…
Descriptors: Amish, Basic Skills, Cultural Traits, Elementary Education
