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Download full textSimons, Gary Francis – 1979
Strategies are developed for understanding how language variation limits communication. Methods of measuring communication are discussed, including an intelligibility measure used in the Solomon Islands. The analysis of data gathered using communication measurement is discussed. The result of the analysis is a determination of the number of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, Culture Contact, Diglossia
KENDRICK, WILLIAM; LEVENSON, STANLEY – 1967
THE SELECTIONS IN THIS VOLUME DESIGNED FOR TEACHERS, STUDENT TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, CONSULTANTS, AND OTHERS NOT ONLY PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IN GRADES KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHT, BUT ALSO EXAMINES IN DETAIL ALMOST EVERY ASPECT OF FLES PROGRAMS. PART ONE OF THE VOLUME, "A PHILOSOPHICAL RATIONALE FOR FLES,"…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Elementary Schools, FLES
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1964
FORD FOUNDATION INTEREST AND INVOLVEMENT IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS, AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING IS DESCRIBED. FOUR OF THE FOUNDATION'S NINE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THESE AREAS. "INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH" IS CONCERNED WITH IMPROVING AMERICAN COMPETENCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL FIELD.…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Curriculum Development, Educational Television, English (Second Language)
OLOROSO, LAURA S. – 1967
DESPITE RECENT RESEARCH IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR ENGLISH MAJORS IN PHILIPPINE TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES HAVE REMAINED RELATIVELY STATIC THE PAST 15 YEARS. TO REDUCE THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN TEACHER TRAINING INSTRUCTION AND THE FUNCTIONS TEACHERS ARE ACTUALLY EXPECTED TO PERFORM, MANILA HIGH SCHOOL…
Descriptors: College English, College Language Programs, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Background
Cooper, Stephen – 1980
This is the fourth annual listing of graduate theses and dissertations in English as a second language (ESL). The studies cited here were completed during the academic year 1978-79. The listing is intended to provide graduate students and others doing research in ESL and related fields with specific, comprehensive data on current graduate-level…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Education
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1978
Dissertation abstracts describing research on a wide variety of topics in bilingual education are presented. This publication is designed to provide background material for bilingual educators as well as practical procedures for bilingual teachers, administrators, counselors, and evaluators. The titles were acquired by using the two broad…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cultural Education
Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Staiger, Ralph C., Ed. – 1962
Focusing on problems, programs, and projects in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the eleventh annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1961. The 29 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains studies and theoretical papers that deal with reading speed and comprehension.…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
Johnson, Don Phillip – 1978
Twenty-five Spanish-speaking English as a Second Language (ESL) students in a California high school were the subjects of a study to determine the effectiveness of an audiovisual as opposed to an audiolingual method. After pretesting, to ensure that the subjects had approximately the same proficiency level, the students were divided into a control…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Bilingualism, Concept Formation, Contrastive Linguistics
Stern, H. H. – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1978
This paper presents historical information about language teaching methods and focuses on "formal" and "functional" strategies of teaching and learning. Particular attention is directed toward the immersion type of education. A table that lists developments in language teaching theory from 1840-1977 is presented. A table that summarizes…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Experiential Learning
Georgia Univ., Athens. English Curriculum Study Center. – 1968
This teaching guide for written composition in grades K-3 contains (1) a statement of objectives for a curriculum in composition, (2) sequence charts which relate subject content for each grade to basic understandings about composition, (3) illustrations of ways in which the ordinary experiences of children can become the bases for compositions,…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Creative Writing, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Georgia Univ., Athens. English Curriculum Study Center. – 1968
This guide for teaching composition in grades 4-6 (1) objectives for a curriculum in written composition, (2) sequence charts which relate subject content for each grade to basic understandings about composition, (3) illustrative learning experiences, and (4) units for teaching specific skills. The units for each grade are "Structuring a…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Creative Writing, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Newmark, Leonard; Reibel, David A. – IRAL, 1968
The article criticizes present-day overemphasis of contrastive analysis procedures in second language instruction. Recommendations are for language teachers to reappraise their classroom objectives and to give paramount importance to mastery of language use rather than mastery of language structure. Pedagogical procedures based on situational…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Audiolingual Methods, Children, Comparative Analysis
PDF pending restorationVan Campen, Joseph A. – 1968
A Stanford University project in which mathematical learning theory was applied to the learning of Russian in a first-year, computer-based college course is examined in this report. Included in the description of this project, designed to complete and implement the first-year Russian course, are the research and curriculum potentials of…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, College Language Programs, Computational Linguistics
Rubin, Eli Z.; And Others – 1968
Using a 41-test battery of cognitive-perceptual-motor tests supplemented by standardized tests of intelligence, visual perception, eye hand coordination, linguistics, and non-verbal integration, a group of 200 maladjusted school age children from grades 1, 2, 3, and 5 was compared with a group of problem-free children similar in size, sex…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Wilkinson, Andrew; And Others – 1966
Modifications of current assumptions both about the nature of the spoken language and about its functions in relation to personality development are suggested in this book. The discussion covers an explanation of "oracy" (the oral skills of speaking and listening); the contributions of linguistics to the teaching of English in Britain; the…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, English Instruction, Environmental Influences, Linguistics
