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Mitsui, Akiko; Morimoto, Yoko; Tucker, G. Richard; Donato, Richard – Learning Languages, 2005
This paper is another installment in the ongoing project on early language learning in a Japanese FLES program, conducted by ELLRT (Early Language Learning Research Team): Richard Donato and G. Richard Tucker with graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The Japanese instructor in this FLES program, Yoko…
Descriptors: FLES, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Written Language
Winfield, Marie Yolette – 1989
The techniques used in teaching spoken and written English must be re-evaluated, and more effort should be directed toward helping individuals develop adequate ways of acquiring language skills. Classroom models that confront students with texts they cannot read effectively, and that compel them to repeat words and sentences in a chorus should be…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Wang, Lih Shing; Stansfield, Charles W. – 1988
The manual for administration of the Chinese Proficiency Test contains an overview of the program, including: (1) its history, content, and format; (2) its primary focus and uses; (3) administration procedures, including registration, ordering the test, reporting scores, and billing; (4) the interpretation of test scores based on normative data…
Descriptors: Chinese, Difficulty Level, Item Analysis, Language Proficiency
Marfurt, Rose Marie A. – 1987
Suggestions are made for the organization of a business German course. It is proposed that course material be divided into chapters, one per week, each containing five sections. The sections include: (1) a broad selection of typical German business letters exemplifying operations in all branches of export and import, followed by a special…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
Oates, Michael D.; Hawley, D. C. – 1983
It is proposed that student motivation can be maintained and enhanced when teachers combine authentic oral and written language with activities leading the student to identify with sympathetic individuals in the target culture. Suggested activities, emphasizing language training at the intermediate level, include interviewing native speakers, work…
Descriptors: Assignments, Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Culture Contact
Blanchard, Lydia – 1987
An alternative curriculum for Freshman Composition, designed to help students develop cognitive skills useful for academic writing in other courses, involves eight discipline-specific assignments, building from relatively simple writing tasks such as taking lecture notes and keeping an academic journal, through book reports, essay examinations,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Content Area Writing, Essays, Freshman Composition
Stice, Carole F.; Waddell, Jill – 1985
Research conducted since the early 1970s has provided important insights into how written language develops and how teachers can best foster that growth. One of these promotes the holistic approach to language instruction--to nurture the emergent speller is to nurture the emergent reader, writer, speaker, listener, and thinker. Another important…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages
Stiefel, Jane – 1982
The language community of urban Hispanics in the United States and educational strategies that are appropriate for teaching English as a second language (ESL) in a bilingual/bidialectal language situation are considered. Within the New York City Hispanic community of Puerto Ricans, several varieties of English have been noted: standard English,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language/Area Reference Center. – 1985
The materials status report for Uigur, a Turkic language spoken in the Sinkiang-Uigur Autonomous Region in northwest China and in the Soviet Socialist Republics of Kazakh and Uzbek, is one of a series intended to provide the nonspecialist with a picture of the availability and quality of texts for teaching various languages to English speakers.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Dialects, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Cronnell, Bruce – 1982
A study investigated the extent to which oral language forms influence the written products of Mexican-American students attending an inner city school in a low income neighborhood. For the study, writing samples from 78 third grade and 92 sixth grade students were analyzed for Spanish, interlanguage, and Chicano English features. (Interlanguage…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Influences, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Pedersen, Paul – 1981
Symbolic meaning expressed by Chinese language characters is helpful to non-Chinese persons in understanding Chinese culture. The implicit metaphors in Chinese characters present pictographic descriptions of the meaning in the form of a story, situation, or symbol which places the otherwise abstract concept in a cultural context. All languages…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Training
Faik, Sully; And Others – 1977
The school setting is now the only place where one can learn French in Zaire. At present Zaire is regaining its authenticity especially through the effort to promote its native language and literature. At the same time, French is also gaining ground due to the increase in formal education, still almost totally in French. Summaries of the research…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture
Scollon, Ron; Scollon, Suzanne B. K. – 1979
English essayist literacy shares many features with the discourse patterns of English speakers. Where these patterns are different from those of another ethnic group, literacy will be experienced as interethnic communication. Athabaskan discourse differs from that of English in (1) presentation of self (an Athabaskan is silent with new…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Athapascan Languages, Cognitive Style, Contrastive Linguistics
Bolinger, Dwight – 1968
A survey of the substance of linguistics and of the activities of linguists is presented in an attempt to acquaint ordinary readers with the various aspects of la"guage. A discussion of the human tendency toward speech, of the traits of language, and of phonetic elements prepares the way for an analysis of the structure of languag e in terms of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics
Harsh, Wayne – 1965
The approaches of traditional grammar, descriptive linguistics, and generative grammar are largely complementary rather than exclusive. Traditional grammar defines eight parts of speech according to meaning or function and concerns itself almost wholely with the written language. Descriptive linguistics postulates that English has a set of unique…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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