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Rockwood, Heidi M. – 1987
Most college curricula in business German are oriented to third- and fourth-year German students. Development of a course in introductory business German designed for the second year of language instruction required careful selection of materials and activities. Texts were selected for their comprehensibility for students with no business…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Course Organization, Evaluation Criteria, German
Download full textOlson, Carol Booth, Ed. – 1987
A collaborative effort on the part of teachers from and consultants for the University of California, Irvine/California Writing Project, this guide presents ideas for teaching writing as a process at all levels of the curriculum. Each section of the guide presents an essay introducing the section topic, followed by practical ideas for teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Education for Exceptional Students. – 1986
One of a series of Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students (PASS) packages developed to provide Florida teachers with modified approaches for presenting content courses to mainstreamed exceptional students, this guide was designed as a supplementary text and workbook for a high school English course. The guide is divided into seven units of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Learning Problems, Literature
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Bureau of French Education. – 1987
This guide outlines the Manitoban Department of Education's conversational French-as-a-second-language curriculum for second grade. The program is designed to introduce young children to the French language and culture through the learning of French sounds, vocabulary, and some sentence patterns. An introductory section explains the program's…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Conversational Language Courses, Course Content, Curriculum Guides
Elkhatib, Ahmed Shafik Abdelwahab – 1984
Writing samples of four Arab college freshmen students of English as a second language were analyzed. The objectives were to classify the lexical problems found, determine the causes of the problems, and examine the students' choice of certain lexical items in an attempt to determine whether the students were more attuned to the form or the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Classification, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen
Karlin, Robert; Karlin, Andrea R. – 1983
As both draw upon language and experience, and both deal with meaning, writing and reading can be learned concurrently. Writing activities having a positive effect on reading skills include notetaking and sentence combining exercises. A more productive way of improving reading comprehension through writing is to have students base their writing on…
Descriptors: Diagrams, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effectiveness of a linguistically based and a nonlinguistically based spelling program on the spelling competency of elementary pupils; (2) the effectiveness of spelling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Continuing Education. – 1988
This New York State teaching activities guide is designed to be used by instructors of adult basic education to encourage students to register to vote, to obtain information about the candidates and issues of the 1988 Presidential election, to make responsible decisions, to cast ballots, and to accept and work with the results of the election. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Class Activities
MacMillin, Marlene Tege – 1984
The course in basic French for French-speaking Africa is intended for use by Peace Corps volunteers. It consists of lists of specific behavioral objectives for two proficiency levels and 20 lessons emphasizing grammar and vocabulary for everyday situations in Peace Corps work. Lessons contain a presentation of the basic material to be covered,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, French
Takala, Sauli – 1985
Issues related to the estimation of individuals' vocabulary size are discussed, including the rationale for vocabulary size research and the psychological, pedagogical, and quantitative approaches to vocabulary research and methodological problems associated with them. Some results from a large-scale assessment of Finnish comprehensive school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Bates, Donald L. – 1986
This practicum addressed the problem of eighth-grade U.S. history students who did not acquire nor retain the necessary course core vocabulary. This lack of vocabulary acquisition resulted in reduced student performance, lack of understanding, and a poor attitude. The goals were: (1) to increase the student's U.S. history core vocabulary level;…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Grade 8, History Instruction, Middle Schools
Menges, Patricia A.; Kelly, Michael G. – 1982
Vocational education for limited English proficiency (LEP) students at Waubonsee Community College, Illinois, which includes a vocational English as a second language (VESL) course, is described, with examples from the tool training program. With state funding, the Waubonsee's LEP project for vocational education offers short-term, part-time…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Community Colleges, Employment Potential
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This primer was developed to help secondary school business teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first…
Descriptors: Business Education, Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
An Art Teachers' Primer to Reading. Supplemental Material for RDG 467, RDG 480, RDG 507 and RDG 544.
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school art teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first section…
Descriptors: Art Education, Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Bert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school music teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Music Education, Reading Comprehension
