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Korthals, Ella Mae – 1971
Huron (South Dakota) Senior High School is developing a model information retrieval program using audio tape cassettes. Using Title III money, the school, which has 1,000 students, will add 1,000 commercially produced tapes and 1,500 locally produced tapes to its library, along with listening stations, tape recorders, cassette players, duplicating…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Dial Access Information Systems
Lee, W. R. – 1972
Audiovisual aids can be helpful in language learning associated with education in a particular vocational field. While students in all fields must master the grammar of a language, the vocabulary needed may vary according to the vocation a student has chosen. Audiovisual aids can help a student preparing for a particular occupation. Visual aids…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Educational Media, English (Second Language)
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Blake, Robert – ADFL Bulletin, 1987
The successful incorporation of computer-assisted language learning into the college-level foreign language curriculum is a much-needed improvement over language laboratories. Foreign language departments have developed software packages for the Macintosh microcomputer involving language pattern drills and language error-analysis. (CB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Graham, Janet G.; Beardsley, Robert S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes an experimental course in communication offered to nonnative English-speaking pharmacists at the University of Maryland and reports the results of an evaluation of the course. The course was team-taught by a pharmacist specializing in communication for pharmacists and by an English-as-a-second-language specialist. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Course Organization, English for Special Purposes
Frankel, Carole N. – 1994
To address the special second language learning needs of deaf college students, a project was undertaken at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia), the world's only four-year liberal arts university for the deaf, to create 36 videotaped lessons in grammar, signed in American Sign Language, for first-year French and Spanish instruction. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, College Second Language Programs, Communication Problems, Deafness
Biemiller, Lawrence – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
Multimedia computer programs that can be produced in a few hours by faculty or language laboratory staff could change the way colleges teach foreign languages. New tools allow exercises to be custom tailored to suit student interests and skill levels and to use authentic texts in new ways. Initial response by faculty users has been enthusiastic.…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Burnett, Joanne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
An ethnographic study documented the attitudes, activities, behaviors, and beliefs of teacher and students in a college French class in a weekly computer-equipped language laboratory class. Despite the teacher's enthusiasm, his beliefs, linguistic difficulties, and technical problems made it difficult to sustain lessons in the target language.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Jassey, William – 1995
The Center for Japanese Study Abroad (CJSA) is a Japanese immersion and study abroad program implemented as a magnet program at inner-city Brien MacMahon High School in Norwalk, Connecticut. The program is supported by a grant from the state department of education. Attended by 60-70 students from high schools in southern Fairfield County…
Descriptors: Art Education, Economics Education, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Scott, Richard W. – 1994
Johnson County Community College, in Kansas, recently implemented a unique laboratory combining interactive video, computers, and peer tutors to support its speech communication, foreign language, and interpreter training departments. The facility is equipped with 15 interactive, video-based work stations, costing $3,930 each; four computer…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, Audiovisual Instruction, College Second Language Programs
Ecklund, Constance L. – 1985
Teaching conversation will always pose a great challenge to the foreign language instructor. Even by the third year of language study, the typical time for this skill's development, students have neither the fluency nor the confidence necessary to speak easily. Also, since many are ill at ease in conversing in their native language, getting these…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Communication, College Second Language Programs, College Students
Lozano, Anthony G. – 1985
A study investigated the relative effectiveness of two new teaching technologies, television and computers, as compared with traditional language laboratory instructional audiotapes in introductory Spanish. The dependent variables examined included the following: overall achievment level; reading, writing, and grammatical skills; and improved…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Croft, Kenneth, Ed. – 1972
This collection of readings on the topic of teaching English as a second language (ESL) has a twofold purpose: to enlarge the ESL teacher's awareness of the field and to assist in the professional growth of the new teacher or teacher-trainee. Each of the book's nine sections deal with one area of ESL instruction. Section 1, "Trends and Practices,"…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Educational Media, English (Second Language), Grammar
NEWMARK, MAXIM; AND OTHERS – 1967
A PROGRAM OF CURRICULUM REVISION HAS RESULTED IN A CURRICULUM GUIDE WHICH DELINEATES THE AIMS, TECHNIQUES, CONTENT, AND SCOPE OF GERMAN INSTRUCTION AT EACH LEVEL OF A 4-LEVEL SEQUENCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY. A MODIFIED AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IS STRESSED AND SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES ARE SUGGESTED FOR TEACHING LISTENING, SPEAKING,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Course Content
GILLERS, LILLIAN M.; NEWMARK, MAXIM – 1967
THE OBJECTIVES, CONTENT, AND SCOPE OF ITALIAN INSTRUCTION FOR EACH LEVEL OF A FOUR-LEVEL SEQUENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARE DELINEATED IN THIS GUIDE, WHICH IS A REVISION OF EARLIER BULLETINS USED EXPERIMENTALLY IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1962. A MODIFIED AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IS STRESSED, AND SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES ARE SUGGESTED FOR TEACHING CULTURE AND…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Course Content, Course Objectives
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Mildenberger, Andrea S.; Liao, Allen Yuan-heng – 1968
A catalog of ERIC documents accessioned by the Modern Language Association ERIC Clearinghouse and other Clearinghouses during November 1967 and June 1968 lists materials relating to foreign language instruction. Items are grouped alphabetically, and a user index helps locate items in twelve categories. Information is given on prices (both…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bilingualism, Catalogs, Classical Languages
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