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Download full textIkeguchi, Cecilia B. – 1996
Two groups of Japanese students, 40 university students (aged 18-25) and 34 high school students (aged 13-15), assessed their own English language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) after having lived in an English-speaking country for at least a year before returning to Japan. This evaluation was compared with objective listening…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Cultural Education, English (Second Language)
Coady, James, Ed.; Huckin, Thomas, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on second language vocabulary learning includes: "Historical Trends in Second Language Vocabulary Instruction" (Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman); "The Lexical Plight in Second Language Reading: Words You Don't Know, Words You Think You Know, and Words You Can't Guess" (Batia Laufer); "Orthographic Knowledge in L2 Lexical Processing: A…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Difficulty Level
Peace Corps, Manila (Philippines). – 1993
This guide is designed for Ivatan (Ibatan) language training of Peace Corps workers in the Philippines, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of: phrase lists for a wide range of daily activities and needs; a list of targeted core language competencies, at three proficiency levels, for those daily activities; an…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Services, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills
Laurent, Renata Campos – 1995
This report describes a project to research and create a lesson book and audiotape cassette to help adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners acquire specific language skills, vocabulary, and oral practice for communicating confidently and effectively with their children's teachers. The report describes the procedures for development and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Audiotape Recordings, Dialogs (Language)
Sinhaneti, Kantatip – 1994
A survey on the teaching of English for special purposes (ESP) at universities in the Bangkok (Thailand) metropolitan area is reported. ESP is a concern in higher education due to increased English use in Thai business. The survey involved five public and nine private institutions. It was found that all universities offered compulsory general…
Descriptors: Business Communication, College Second Language Programs, Course Content, English for Science and Technology
Alexander, N. – 1993
Ideas for teaching elementary and secondary students of English as a Second Language (ESL) through a unit on kites and kite-making are offered. First, unit objectives are outlined. These include objectives for cognitive skill development (classification, comparison), psychomotor skills (constructing a kite), mathematical operations (measuring,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
Pulliam, Brenda J. – 1993
A study investigated the use of varied reading materials to improve French second-language reading skills, found to be unacceptably low at the second-year level. Subjects were 30 high school students of second-year French. A pretest of reading skills and a language and reading attitude survey were administered to the students. Subsequently, a…
Descriptors: Context Clues, French, High School Students, High Schools
Toohey, Kelleen; Day, Elaine – 1998
An ongoing four-year ethnographic study of two cohorts of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in mainstream Canadian primary school classrooms is described. The two cohorts are: (1) a group of six children observed from the beginning of kindergarten through the end of grade 2, and (2) five children observed from early kindergarten…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students
Donnarumma, Leopold J. – 1992
This practicum involved designing a special program for a target group of 19 high school Exceptional Student Education students enrolled in a culinary arts vocational program to build and maintain basic culinary arts skills. The program, intended to enable them to qualify for the Florida culinary arts completion certificate, was designed by the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cooking Instruction, Curriculum, Disabilities
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1992
This curriculum guide contains workplace-specific instructional materials developed for use in a rural workplace literacy demonstration project, specifically with welders. Contents include a student assessment form, instructional objectives, pre- and posttests, learning activities (some locally developed and some selected from commercially…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Curriculum Guides
Kinzer, Charles K., Ed.; Leu, Donald J., Ed. – 1992
The 43 manuscripts presented in this collection represent qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as papers that present literacy research, theory, and pedagogy. Papers in the collection include: "Family Uses of Literacy: A Critical Voice" (D. Madigan); "Intergenerational Literacy: Impact on the Development of the Storybook Reading Behaviors…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationCareer Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1993
Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, Course Content
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN. – 1991
This ERIC/RCS Special Collection contains 10 or more Digests (brief syntheses of the research on a specific topic in contemporary education) and FAST Bibs (Focused Access to Selected Topics--annotated bibliographies with selected entries from the ERIC database), providing up-to-date information in an accessible format. The collection focuses on…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Family Involvement
Collins, Vickie L., Ed. – 1989
This bibliography lists instructional materials for teaching adult learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). The resources listed are print materials made available through the Free Library of Philadelphia's Reader Development Program. All are on or below the eighth grade reading level, as determined with the Gunning Fog readability formula.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Citizenship Education, Coping, Daily Living Skills
Potter, Jocelyn – MEXTESOL Journal, 1983
Intermediate level students of English as a second language reach a critical stage in their language learning after which motivation wanes if no specific attainable goals are offered as encouragement to progress. The ability to enjoy recreational reading can provide those goals, but students must make the transition from dependence on the teacher…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Context Clues, Cultural Awareness, Difficulty Level
