The skills, understandings, and special attributes that a competent college student should acquire are described. General skills in writing, reading, speaking, and calculating are primarily the responsibility of elementary and secondary education, and these skills must be mastered by every college student. In addition to a specification of these…

Presenting a set of guidelines for grades 2 through 4, this teacher's manual is one in a set of three competency rating scales which provide guidelines for the infusion of career guidance concepts into the elementary school curriculum. These rating scales were developed by the Georgia Comprehensive Career Guidance Project (Final Report, CE 018…

Six articles focus upon social studies as an essential subject in early childhood education. All articles take an interactionary approach; that is, they view children as acting upon and being acted upon by their environment. "Young Children Growing through Action" presents a developmental approach centered around four themes: (1) growth through…

An editorial and articles are presented on a European unit/credit system for modern language learning by adults. The contents are as follows: "A European Unit Credit System" by J. L. M. Trim; "The Analysis of Language Needs: Illusion--Pretext--Necessity" by Rene Richterich; "Learning a Language Is Learning to Communicate" by D. A. Wilkins; "The…

A description of team-teaching at the English for Overseas Students Unit (EOSU) of the University of Birmingham, by T. F. Johns and Tony Dudley-Evans, is followed by "The Current Programme of Materials Development in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at the Universities of Birmingham and Aston" by T. F. and C. M. Johns. The…

Teachers of English as a second language need classroom communication activities to help students develop communicative competence. A procedure which uses a group-learning approach and which ensures real communication is the "Strip Story," an adaptation of scrambled story exercises in which each student is given one sentence of a story…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, the fifth in a series of 16, focuses on preparing trainees in a bilingual/bicultural preschool teacher training program to help young children to develop social skills. The text of the module deals with: (1) fundamental principles of social development, (2) factors which influence social…

The idea of reducing the redundancy of a verbal message in a statistical way is presented as a practiced technique of language testing. Considering the temporality of speech comprehension, and the necessarily sequential intake of information, these cues may include the serial order of elements and transitional probability. To give the background…

This annotated bibliography of English as a second language (ESL) materials for grades K-3 is divided into four parts. The first part, ESL texts, lists a number of series or single texts that are designed to teach the spoken language and reading to the elementary school child. The second part is a list of readers that, although were mostly…

This volume, the fifth in a series of seven, contains the two learning modules which focus on the fourth Child Development Associate (CDA) competency, promoting positive functioning of children and adults in a group environment, in the Texas A & I Bilingual Bicultural Child Development Associate Training Program performance based curriculum.…

Enrollment trends and factors that influence foreign language study in colleges and universities are discussed. Most college foreign language programs have emphasized the study of literature and have not been committed to the training of teachers or the teaching of civilization or culture. It appears that students' concern about the job market and…

This issue of "Cross Currents" includes the following articles: "More About Drama for the Classroom" by Richard A. Via; "Student-Created Media: One Approach to ESL Instruction" by Kathy Campbell; "Some Advice for Japanese Students Learning English" by Yoshi-Mitsu Shimazu; "Patterns of Oral Communication…

THE USE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (OT) WITH EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN IN A RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SETTING OR MILIEU IS DESCRIBED ON THE BASIS OF 6 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK. CORRECTIVE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION APPROACHES ARE EXPLAINED. ALSO CONSIDERED IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF OT IN (1) THE DEVELOPMENT, FULFILLMENT, OR MODIFICATION OF MOTOR…

This report discusses several perspectives on Asian/Pacific Americans and the educational issues that relate to them. It begins by providing a definition of "Asian/Pacific American," an historical account of their immigration, and a discussion of minority status and cultural relativism. A number of studies and personal experiences that…

This second volume of the final report contains twenty-eight report appendixes. The narrative portion is available separately--see note. Contents include (1) Work Flow Network, (2) Work Breakdown Structure (components, activities, tasks), (3) Listings of Competency Literature Sources, (4) Criteria for Writing Competency Statements and Assessing…