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Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language/Area Reference Center. – 1985
The materials status report for Tigrinya, which is spoken in Ethiopia, is one of a series intended to provide the nonspecialist with a picture of the availability and quality of texts for teaching a given language to English speakers. Each report consists of: (1) a brief narrative description of the language, the areas where it is spoken, its…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Dialects, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language/Area Reference Center. – 1985
The materials status report for Zulu is one of a series intended to provide the nonspecialist with a picture of the availability and quality of texts for teaching a given language to English speakers. The report consists of: (1) a brief narrative description of the language, the areas where it is spoken, its major dialects, its writing system,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Dialects, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language/Area Reference Center. – 1985
The materials status report for Xhosa is one of a series intended to provide the nonspecialist with a picture of the availability and quality of texts for teaching a given language to English speakers. The report consists of: (1) a brief narrative description of the language, the areas where it is spoken, its major dialects, its writing system,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Dialects, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Alvir, Howard P. – 1978
This document describes a procedure designed to enhance the effectiveness of teaching in intermediate and advanced English as a second language (ESL) classes. The procedure consists of letting students express themselves in writing in their native language (whether French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, or Italian) and having the same students the…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Arts
Frith, Uta; Vogel, Juliet M. – 1980
The two chapters of this monograph deal with the issue of the existence of a perceptual grammar that influences reading proficiency, particularly initial reading proficiency. The first chapter indicates the importance of studying reading and writing in terms of readers' and writers' knowledge of visuo-spatial processing rules. It discusses…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Salgaller, Emanuel – Kentucky Foreign Language Quarterly, 1963
Noting the drastic, sudden increase in enrollment in the post-Sputnik period in Russian language courses and the resultant difficulty of finding qualified instructors, the author describes a rapid-reading methodology which concentrates on forms and expressions prevalent in technical writing. Description of suggested teaching techniques…
Descriptors: Cyrillic Alphabet, Descriptive Linguistics, Graduate Study, Language Instruction
Report of the Yale Conference on the Teaching of English (16th, Yale University, April 10-11, 1970).
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Graduate School. – 1970
Four speeches illustrating important principles in the teaching of English are collected in this booklet: (1) "The Teaching of Writing as Art" by William E. Coles, Jr., who, in posing ambiguous, provocative questions as writing assignments, compels the student to explore language in its relationship to his experience and his persona; (2)…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, College Instruction, Comedy, Drama
Scott, Charles T. – The Modern Language Journal, 1966
Linguistic features of the reading process are described and used as a basis for some conclusions about the teaching of reading in a foreign language. For purposes of illustration, this discussion centers around the teaching of English reading skills to speakers of Japanese. The peculiarities of reading as a system of communication are outlined.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Francis, W. Nelson – College Composition and Communication, 1964
The importance of improving English instructors' attitudes toward three broadly classified forms of language expression is examined. The author notes an increased interest in languages among college freshmen and defines the differences between (1) artistic, (2) playful, and (3) intellectual expression. Pressure resulting from advanced teaching…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Preparation
Sheldon, William D.; And Others – 1969
This collection of research reviews summarizes investigations in the English language arts on the elementary and secondary levels. The 76 elementary education research studies discussed were drawn from 55 journals, from January 1968 to December 1968, and are grouped in the following areas: summaries and listings of research, language, oral…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Elementary Education
Rothkopf, Ernst Z., Ed.; Johnson, Paul E., Ed. – 1971
The symposium on which this report is based was motivated by the belief that scientific understanding of how man learns through language will some day help in the development and use of written instructional materials. The main purpose of the symposium was to take stock of the more promising findings and concepts about verbal learning processes in…
Descriptors: Attention, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction

Dyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1987
Presents brief stories of two students that illustrate how children's symbolic interactions and social relationships (how they interact with materials and people) influence their ways of gaining control over the interrelated parts of written language, and how these "casts of mind" may eventually emerge more fully within their stories.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Competence
Andersen, Poul – 1995
This paper outlines trends and activities in Central and Eastern European language research and language-related software development (language engineering) and briefly describes some specific projects. The language engineering segment of the European Union's Fourth Framework Programme, intended to facilitate use of telematics applications and…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Computer Software Development
Fillmore, Lily Wong; Snow, Catherine E. – 2000
Today's teachers need access to a wide range of information to function in the classroom. They need a thorough understanding of how language figures in education, and for that reason they must receive systematic and intensive preparation in educational linguistics. A thorough grounding in linguistics would support teachers' undertakings overall,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Meriam, J. L. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The educational welfare of children of native and minority groups in continental United States and its outlying parts involves instructional procedures which in recent years are becoming more and more recognized as constituting specialized problems in education. Bilingualism is generally recognized as offering serious instructional difficulties…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Bilingualism, Mexican Americans, English (Second Language)