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Hunter, Madeline – 1994
This book presents 16 teaching techniques organized in lessons to be used by teachers who work with adolescents or young adults. The lessons may be used by individuals or in groups to improve instructional skills. A study guide or meeting plan precedes each chapter and suggests objectives, anticipatory set, input and modeling, means to check…
Descriptors: Chalkboards, Classroom Techniques, Drills (Practice), Error Correction
Morris, Cathy; Brann, Herman I. – 1993
In November 1992, the Ford Foundation published a study entitled "State Higher Education Systems and College Completion," which argued that states that relied heavily on community colleges in their postsecondary educational system, such as California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, were not efficient in producing bachelor degree (BA)…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Criticism
Haskin, Joanna; Smith, Maria de Lourdes Hernandez; Racine, Margaret – 2003
This report describes instructional strategies to decrease anxiety and frustration in the Spanish classroom. Participants were five 7th grade Spanish classes in two suburban middle schools. Student interventions included a study skills guide; partner and group presentations, skits, and activities; and group oral reading. Teacher interventions…
Descriptors: Action Research, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension
Cookson, Simon; Hunter, Simon; Jackson, Daniel; Sick, James – Online Submission, 2005
English for Academic Purposes (EAP Writing) is a compulsory course for English literature and language students at Obirin University. The first semester focuses on expository writing, typical of the TOEFL[R] writing exam. The second semester focuses on writing about literature. To facilitate their writing all students are provided with a user…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Literature, Expository Writing, Management Systems
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Cumming, Alister; So, Sufumi – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1996
Describes the dynamics of problem solving through spoken discourse in one-to-one tutoring of second-language writing in order to determine whether these processes vary with either instructional approach or language used. Tutors' and students' cooperative efforts to solve problems in the students' draft compositions focused primarily on local…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Diab, Rula L. – TESL Canada Journal, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate ESL instructors' feedback techniques and the rationales behind these techniques, to explore ESL students' beliefs about the relative effectiveness of various types of feedback, and to compare students' beliefs with those of their instructors. A university-level ESL instructor and two of her students…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Protocol Analysis, Program Effectiveness
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. Office of Instruction and Program Development. – 1989
The purpose of this manual, which accompanies a video program, is to provide general background information for foreign language teachers who are, or soon will be, teaching in total, partial, or two-way immersion classrooms. Part of a series of video programs, this manual highlights current theories, issues, and questions about second language…
Descriptors: Age, Caregiver Speech, Elementary Education, Error Correction
Savignon, Sandra J. – Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1988
A discussion of the relationship between second language acquisition (SLA) and foreign language learning (FLL) focuses on how theory influences language teaching. It is noted that SLA research has brought new interest in teaching materials and methodologies to many in the foreign language profession, but that there are also many who, impatient…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends, Error Correction
Song, Minjong – 1998
An experimental study compared the effects of controlled and free writing exercises and of evaluative vs. communicative feedback on the writing quality and apprehension of Korean college students of English as a foreign language (EFL). Students in two sections of a freshman reading course wrote dialogue journals as practice in free writing, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Huang, Su-Yueh – 2000
Some university English as a foreign language (EFL) composition teachers in Taiwan have experimented with audiotaping their commentary on students' writing to help students revise. However, there has been little research on how effective this is for Chinese students. Therefore, a study was designed to shed light on this issue by comparing…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Case Studies, Chinese, College Students
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Wesche, Marjorie; Paribakht, T. Sima – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Provides a detailed analysis of techniques used for second language vocabulary assessment and the implied assumptions about the underlying construct of vocabulary knowledge. The article notes that existing measures of vocabulary size are uninformative as to the depth of knowledge that learners have about particular words. (56 references)…
Descriptors: Dictation, Dictionaries, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
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Dossin, Mary Mortimore – College Teaching, 1997
A college writing teacher offers teaching suggestions based on experience, concerning communication with students, error correction, creating priorities among objectives, making standards and evaluation criteria clear, giving positive reinforcement, encouraging use of the writing center, giving assignments that support writing objectives, and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
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Villamil, Olga S.; de Guerrero, Maria C. M. – Applied Linguistics, 1998
A study investigated the impact of peer revision on writers' final drafts in two rhetorical modes, narration and persuasion, among 14 Spanish-speaking college students of English-as-a-Second-Language. Results revealed 74% of revisions made in peer sessions were incorporated into final drafts, and writers made many further self-revisions,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, College Students, English (Second Language)
Kirshner, David – 1993
The goal of this paper is to renew interest in the structural option to algebra instruction. Concern for the usual secondary school algebra curriculum related to simplifying expressions, solving equations, and rationalizing numerators and denominators is viewed from three pedagogical approaches: (1) structural approach, (2) empirical approach, and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation
El-Koumy, Abdel-Salam Abdel-Khalek – Online Submission, 2004
The aim of this book is to provide a compromise between past and present theories of language teaching and learning. The book is organized into six main parts. In the first part, the author highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both the skills-based approach and the whole-language approach. He then presents a theory that emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, English Instruction, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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