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Kubota, Mikio – Institute for Research in Language Teaching Bulletin, 1991
This study investigated English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teachers' patterns of verbal behavior concerning student errors, the relationship between error type and teacher treatment, and the effect of error treatment on subsequent student outcome. Subjects were students in seven EFL classes in Japanese high schools, taught by native Japanese…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
WATESOL Journal, 1994
"WATESOL" is an acronym for "Washington Area Teachers of English To Speakers of Other Languages." This document consists of the only three issues of the "WATESOL Journal" published from 1989 through 1994. Fall 1989 includes: (1) "The Visual Voices of Nonverbal Films" (Salvatore J. Parlato); (2)…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Kuntz, Patricia S. – 1997
A study investigated the beliefs about second language learning among nine students of English as a Second Language (all female), and their teacher at Queen Arwa University (Yemen). The survey instrument consisted of five demographic statements and 47 statements concerning language learning in a Likert-type scaled response format. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, College Students, Educational Attitudes
Harlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1989
Papers on a variety of linguistic topics include six papers from a Festschrift and nine others, as follows: "Attitudes Towards English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switzerland" (Urs Durmuller); "Functional Stability and Structural Levelling of Dialects: The Case of Maastricht" (Anton M. Hagen, Henk Munstermann); "On the…
Descriptors: Basque, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects
Heilenman, L. Kathy, Ed. – 1998
This collection of papers is divided into two parts. After "Introduction" (L. Kathy Heilenman), Part 1, "Research and Language Program Directors: The Relationship," includes "Research Domains and Language Program Direction" (Bill VanPatten); "Language Program Direction and the Modernist Agenda" (Celeste…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrators, College Admission, College Faculty
Troudi, Salah, Ed.; Coombe, Christine, Ed.; Riley, Susan, Ed. – 1998
Papers from the 1998 international conference on the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) include: "The Future of English: Where Unity and Diversity Meet" (David Crystal); "Maximizing Student Writing and Minimizing Teacher Correction" (Phil Quirke); "How the Camel Got Its Hump: Bringing Literature…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language), Error Correction
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Byo, James L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1997
Examines graduate and undergraduate music majors' ability to detect pitch and rhythm errors in various settings of textually contrasting musical excerpts. Students listened to intentionally marred excerpts and attempted to identify the errors. Analysis of variance revealed that the predictor variables did not function independently of each other.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests
Dogancay, Seran; Kamisli, Sibel – 1995
This study analyzed verbal responses of status unequals in situations where a linguistic mistake occurred. Subjects were 80 native Turkish-speaking university students (28 males, 52 females) who participated in role-playing exercises using such situations. Two aspects of the responses were investigated: the semantic and syntactic formulas that…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Pica, Teresa – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
A discussion of the practice of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching calls for an instructional strategy integrating traditional methods and the communicative approach. Components of traditional teaching methods (grammar instruction, correction, dictation, dialogue, and native language use) are linked with communicative questioning…
Descriptors: Chinese, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Tudor, Ian – 1996
The learner-centered approach to second language education is presented as one that takes into account the learning goals, subjective needs, and culturally-based expectations learners bring with them to the language classroom. First, both formative and current trends in learner-centered language teaching are examined, and the principle of active…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Educational Trends
Vandergrift, Larry – 1992
The guide is designed as a reference to student evaluation for teachers of Alberta's new French second language curriculum. It provides a suggested philosophy of student evaluation and evaluation techniques consistent with the curriculum. It is presented in its entirety in both English and French. An initial discussion of the purpose of evaluation…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
Gross, Janet Finck – 1990
One teacher's experiences in incorporating non-hierarchic learning assumptions and values in the second language classroom, especially through the use of dialogue journals, are reported. In the first part, observations of accuracy-based classroom language teaching are contrasted with the meaning-based acquisition model. Six salient characteristics…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Dialog Journals, Educational Strategies
Allison, Desmond M., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "Language in Education: Hard Choices for Hong Kong" (Jo Lewkowicz); "EL2--Medium Education in a Largely Monolingual Society: The Case of Hong Kong" (Nigel Bruce); "A Programme for Semantics" (Laurence Goldstein); "Semantics and Its…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Correction, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Gajo, Laurent, Ed.; Jeanneret, Fabrice, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 1998
Articles on speech and second language learning include: "Les sequences de correction en classe de langue seconde: evitement du 'non' explicite" ("Error Correction Sequences in Second Language Class: Avoidance of the Explicit 'No'") (Anne-Lise de Bosset); "Analyse hierarchique et fonctionnelle du discours: conversations…
Descriptors: Athletes, Basketball, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
Little, Greta D.; Sanders, Sara L. – 1990
A study examining the perceptions of college students in beginning foreign language classes toward various teaching discovered a discrepancy between the value students and teachers ascribe to communicative language teaching. The study was conducted at the University of South Carolina, in two classes where a variety of teaching techniques were…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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