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Download full textMcAlister-Kizzier, Donna – 1999
This book is designed as a resource for educators who teach business content in a variety of instructional settings. It contains case studies representing all functional areas of business, including corporate training, for grades 7 through graduate education. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the case study method. The history of the case method,…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration, Business Education, Career Development
White, Lisa – 2000
This thematic unit is designed for adult literacy students with at least a third grade reading level. Objectives are tied closely to skills needed for the General Educational Development tests and include computer and workplace skills. Equipped for the Future (EFF) roles and skills are also integrated into the plans. Best practice teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives
Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – 1999
This book covers essential problems and basic concepts of English language testing. There are 20 chapters in four sections. Section 1, "Background," includes: (1) "Why Teachers Test"; (2) "Some Definitions"; (3) "Validity and Reliability"; and (4) "What You Should Learn about Standardized Tests." Section 2, "Preparing To Write Tests," includes:…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis, English (Second Language)
Byrd, Patricia, Ed. – 1995
This guide is a collection of essays on the writing of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) textbooks and other instructional materials. Articles include: "Writing and Publishing Textbooks (Patricia Byrd); "The Craft of Materials Writing" (Fraida Dubin); "Considering Culture: Guidelines for ESL/EFL Textbook Writers" (Gayle Nelson); "Issues in the…
Descriptors: Authors, Copyrights, Course Content, Cultural Awareness
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project, a 3-year project that followed a 1985 pilot study, examined the nature of the language and learning difficulties that black Standard Three (Std 3, or grade 5) children in South Africa experience when they change from their mother tongue of Sepedi to English as a medium of instruction and learning, a policy known as…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingual Education, Black Youth, Change Strategies
Nichols, Pat; Watkins, Lisa – 1994
This curriculum module contains materials for conducting a course designed to build oral and written English skills for nonnative speakers. The course focuses on increasing vocabulary, improving listening/speaking skills, extracting information from various written texts (such as memos, notes, business forms, manuals, letters), and developing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques
Allison, Desmond M., Ed.; Leung, Lily S. K., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "'Good' and 'Poor' Writing and Writers: Studying Individual Performance as a Part of Test Validation" (Desmond Allison, Evelyn Cheung); "To Test or Not To Test: That Is the Question" (Keith Tong, Rose Chan, Jo Lewkowicz); "Testing Listening…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
Ruhland, Sheila K.; Wilkinson, Richard F. – 1993
This document provides an overview of a project to identify the basic academic skills, advanced academic skills, and the higher-order workplace competencies for marketing education. It describes the following project activities: review of current literature and research in the field; review by business and industry representatives of the skills…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Core Curriculum
Kress, Jacqueline E. – 1993
The book for teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) contains 80 lists of words, expressions, constructions, ideas, and materials for use in ESL lesson planning and classroom instruction. The lists are presented in seven groups: (1) general vocabulary, consisting of 21 lists of English words used in various situations in daily life,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Curriculum Development
McAfee, Oralie – 1984
Presented in this resource notebook are some of the basic ingredients of how to improve communications from school to home, including current research and the best thinking on staff development and inservice training, examples of techniques to foster better home-school relations through better communication, and ways to train school personnel in…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
Based on the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Alberta (Canada) Education 1978 curriculum, this revised curriculum guide stresses the importance of students' active involvement in using language. The guide regroups the 1978 skills and concepts for junior high school into the following five language strands: speaking, listening, viewing,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1983
This curriculum guide, one of 15 volumes written for field test use with educationally disadvantaged industrial education students needing additional instruction in the basic skill areas, deals with helping students develop basic verbal and visual communication skills while studying metalworking. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Communication Skills
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the young adult novel; (2) the image of the senior adult in recent fiction for adolescents; (3) adolescent identity themes; (4) storytelling; (5) linguistic…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adult Education, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies
Johns, T. F. – 1976
The materials described here are used to teach English for special purposes at the University of Birmingham. Using the communicative or functional approach to language teaching, they deal with a "common core" of skills, leaving for later in the program special sub-units relating these skills to texts, tasks and problems peculiar to a particular…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Brown, H. Douglas, Ed.; And Others – 1977
A selection of 27 papers presented at the 1977 TESOL convention is presented. Part one contains the four plenary-session papers which present: a comprehensive view of the teaching-learning process and related interdisciplinary research; the scope of research on language teaching; some of the larger issues in bilingual education; and a perspective…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design
