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Walker, Galal – Foreign Language Publications, 2005
This is the second text in a series of Mandarin Chinese learning texts. It continues with the theme of learning to communicate in various forms, especially with time and location, and the hanzi writing system is introduced. An MP3 file accompanies this book. Contents include: (1) Acknowledgments; (2) Introduction; (3) Unit Three, Time When:…
Descriptors: Written Language, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nevin, Ann, Ed. – 2000
The result of a school-university partnership to prepare future special educators, this collection of lesson plans is designed to teach self-determination across the K-12 curriculum to empower students with disabilities. All of the lessons have been implemented within a micro-teaching demonstration with special education interns. Lesson plans are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence
Dam, Phap – 2001
Language educators find two kinds of errors in the interlanguages of language learners: developmental and interference. While developmental errors reflect a normal pattern of development common among all language learners, interference errors are caused by the learners' native languages. This paper deals with a number of die-hard types of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This bulletin contains the statistics of 739 private commercial and business schools for 1924-25, and of 20 public commercial and business high schools for the same year. There has been a considerable decrease since 1920, both in the number of private schools reporting and in the enrollment. At least 275 schools reporting in 1920 have gone out of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Evening Programs, Salesmanship, Average Daily Attendance
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Hardin, Gerard G. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Points out that the emphasis in English language teaching should shift from spoken to written English since international communication today generally means gaining access to written information. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Educational Objectives
Jackson, Hayes – Humanities, 1997
Describes a project cataloging some of the earliest writings of humankind found in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The clay tablets convey information from recipes to religious incantations to commercial transactions. Discusses the emergence and practice of early writing and the computerization of these records. (MJP)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Archaeology, Cataloging, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Westby, Carol E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
The article presents a framework for understanding the pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, text, and phonological aspects of language that underlie both oral and written communication. It gives suggestions for ways speech-language pathologists can assess children's language skills that are essential for success in a whole language program. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps
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Preteur, Yves; Louvet-Schmauss, Eva – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Presents a continuation of previous research on a general development process consisting of successive levels in conceptualization. Explores how young children conceptualize the writing system. Considers both social background and preschool system of education. Concludes that teaching activities used in French nursery schools are less effective…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies
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Lyster, Roy – Applied Linguistics, 1994
A set of functional-analytic materials, entailing the study and practice of sociostylistic variation, was implemented in three eighth-grade French immersion (FI) classrooms by their respective teachers during French language arts classes over a five-week period. Pre- and posttests indicate that functional-analytic teaching improved FI students'…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, French
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Fotos, Sandra S. – Language Learning, 1991
Analysis of the use of a cloze-procedure test to measure the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) proficiency of Japanese college students revealed that the cloze test correlated significantly with an essay test and improved prediction of ESL proficiency, suggesting that carefully constructed cloze tests could be useful in integrative language…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Ryding, Karin Christina – Theory into Practice, 1994
Discusses the linguistic and psychological barriers that exist for English-speaking students of Arabic. The article explains theoretical and practical issues in teaching Arabic as a foreign language and describes the implementation of four principles in the Foreign Service Institute approach. Suggests that this approach is transferrable to…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Students, Higher Education, Language Skills
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Chapman, David – On-Call, 1997
Investigates the effect of oral and electronic media on interaction patterns by learners of Japanese as a second language. The framework for the analysis of learner is speech act theory, which provides a richly developed set of descriptive categories by which to examine interactional processes. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
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Nickerson, Catherine – English for Specific Purposes, 1998
A study investigated communication patterns in written English and the prevalent corporate culture, the relationship between a British corporate office and its subsidiary in the Netherlands. Survey respondents were senior-level employees at 107 companies. Results indicate corporate culture plays an important role in the level of English skills…
Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
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Sykes, Julie M. – CALICO Journal, 2005
This study systematically examines the strength of the connection between synchronous CMC and pragmatic instruction by measuring the effects of three types of synchronous group discussion (written chat [WC], oral chat [OC], and traditional face-to-face [FF] discussion) on the acquisition of the speech act (refusals of an invitation) in the target…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Group Discussion, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Evans, C. J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2004
A bilingual model has been applied to educating deaf students who are learning American Sign Language (ASL) as their first language and written English as a second. Although Cummins's (1984) theory of second language learning articulates how learners draw on one language to acquire another, implementing teaching practices based on this theory,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Deafness, Case Studies, Bilingualism
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