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Deblauwe, Claude – 1986
The University of San Francisco developed a certificate program in Western European area studies covering French-speaking countries, and subsequently a Latin American area studies program for Spanish-speaking countries, in response to uneven language enrollments and as a means of increasing intermediate-level enrollment. The French program begins…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Second Language Programs, Degree Requirements, Enrollment Influences
Pozo, Ivania del; Antal, Leonard – 1985
Techniques for teaching marketing to students of business Spanish are discussed, including an examination and classification of marketing concepts, analysis of the significant and growing United States Hispanic market, and English- and Spanish-language samples of computer-assisted instructional (CAI) materials used in two colleges (Youngstown…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textBousquet, Gilles – 1986
An internship program in France, through which a group of French and business students from an American university spent 4 weeks in a medium-sized business, is described. The program's origins, development, and structure are reviewed, and the obstacles to implementation and their resolutions are discussed. Choices made and lessons learned from…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, College Second Language Programs, French
Buehler, George – 1987
Mississippi State University's revamped undergraduate foreign language program was designed to attract new students interested in job preparedness. The B.S. program is tightly structured to provide students with both general education and expertise in four areas of study essential for a career in world trade: foreign language fluency, proficiency…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Business Administration Education, College Second Language Programs, Degree Requirements
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1987
The conceptual framework within which Alberta's elementary school French immersion programs are designed is presented. The first of three main sections outlines the evolution of the concept of language and some second language instructional approaches, including the structural, formalist, functional, and communicative approaches. It also discusses…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education, Curriculum Design
Larson, John C.; Kirshstein, Rita J. – 1986
The implementation of the elementary magnet school program in Montgomery County (Maryland) from 1983 through 1985 and the racial balance changes experienced in these schools are discussed. Ten elementary schools in Area 1 and four of seven elementary schools in Area 2 operate magnet programs; these 14 schools comprise the study sample. The…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Computer Literacy, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1988
This catalog is a collection of profiles describing 74 exemplary programs developed by public school teachers in New York, New York, under IMPACT II, a program to reward and recognize creative teachers. The profiles are organized by subject area, then divided by grade levels. Subject areas covered are the following: (1) The Arts; (2) Communication…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Catalogs, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. – 1982
A federally funded program to provide job skills, English language skills, and other support services to Haitian immigrants in Massachusetts and Louisiana is described. The Experiment in International Living and the firm of ACCESS, Inc., worked cooperatively with community organizations to serve a total of 794 Haitians in two areas in the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Community Organizations
Zhuang, Jiaying – 1984
The political, cultural, and social factors that have influenced English language teaching in the People's Republic of China's colleges are examined. First, a brief history of English teaching in China is presented, beginning in the mid-19th century and focusing on the 1949 Revolution, the 1960 Sino-Soviet split, and the the Cultural Revolution of…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communism, Educational Change, Educational History
Muller, Brigitte – 1984
Two sequential courses in scientific and technical French developed as a supplement to third- and fourth-year college French, in response to expressed student and industry demand, had as their objectives to develop a general familiarity with products of the large French industrial companies and their United States affiliates and to develop means…
Descriptors: Advertising, Agriculture, College Second Language Programs, Course Descriptions
Griswold, Jean S. – 1989
The Colorado State University Foreign Language Weekend Camps (also called the "Poor Man's Study Abroad") are described in this report. Developed to provide an international component and a mini foreign experience for the university's students, the camps are designed to accomplish several purposes including: to offer both foreign and…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Cultural Awareness, Day Camp Programs
Wrigley, Heide Spruck – 1988
A guide to program design and instruction for immigrants seeking permanent residency in the United States is based on the educational requirements of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It provides information for developing an amnesty preparation program to meet the requirements for proficiency and/or course attendance. Those…
Descriptors: Adults, Citizen Participation, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Corey, Kathleen; And Others – 1987
Preparing Refugees for Elementary Programs (PREP) is a federal program to prepare young refugee children for further learning in the United States. Findings from current research on how children learn to speak, read, and write were used to design the curriculum. All children receive 18 weeks of full-time instruction, during which their parents…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Fallon, Gerald; Morse, Marie – 1987
Alberta's curriculum guide for French immersion programs outlines the programs' rationale and objectives and the content of the oral language, reading, and writing components for six years. An introductory section discusses the aim of developing language competence and recent theory on competence. The role of language as an instrument of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
McKeon, Denise – 1987
The organization of English as a second language (ESL) programs varies greatly, according to the student population, individual student characteristics, and district resources. They can be broadly categorized as either stand-alone ESL or ESL-plus. In general, stand-alone programs group limited-English-proficient (LEP) students together and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
