This guidebook examines strategies, roles, and accountability measures necessary to embrace, share, and support the learning community in totality. The 16 guidelines offer strategies for each of five groups: learners, educators, schools/institutions, families, and communities. The guidelines include: incorporate cultural traditions, language,…

This paper examines the language dominance and oral bilingual proficiency of Tarahumara-Spanish speaking students from Chihuahua, Mexico, within the framework of Cummins' model of bilingual proficiency development. Cummins' model distinguishes between basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive academic language proficiency…

This standard course of study for North Carolina public schools establishes competency goals and objectives directing the teaching and learning of foreign languages in North Carolina. It is a flexible guide to instruction, emphasizing what students should know and be able to do as they progress through various levels of proficiency and ultimately…

A study examined the role of grammar instruction in second language (L2) learning by investigating: (1) whether L2 learners significantly improved their language skills after formal grammar instruction, (2) to what extent grammatical knowledge predicted a learner's next level of overall language proficiency, (3) to what extent grammatical…

States have made significant progress towards implementing Title III in a very short period of time. States have developed and implemented English language proficiency standards and aligned assessments; provided for annual assessment of the English language proficiency of all limited English proficient students in the four language domains of…

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), through the Immigrant Students and Secondary School Reform project, seeks to strengthen the capacity of state education agencies and districts to improve delivery of educational services to English language learners (ELLs) enrolled in high schools undergoing reform. This compendium was developed…

A description of a prototype computer assisted instruction system for teaching Russian. Although the course stresses the Russian morphological system, the construction of the computer program is applicable to other languages and language teaching specialties. (Author)

Author discusses the many problems -- educational, social, and legal -- that can hamper the progress of non-U.S. citizens in the nation's schools. (Editor/CB)

Results of this study indicate that an English proficiency test such as TOEFL may raise the validity of the GRE aptitude tests in predicting foreign students' graduate school GPA. (Author)

Policy statement of the Modern Language Teachers' Association of Victoria (Australia). (DS)

Describes a teaching experiment in intensive French language courses at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. (DS)

Revised version of a paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1971, New Orleans, La. (VM)