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British Council, London (England). English Language and Literature Div. – 1983
This profile of the English language teaching situation in Hungary discusses the role of English within Hungarian society and within the educational system. It is noted that English is taught as the main foreign language after Russian and that it is offered mainly in the gymnasiums and on the university level. The composition of the teaching cadre…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
British Council, London (England). English Language and Literature Div. – 1981
This profile of the English language teaching situation in Zimbabwe examines the role of English in society and in the educational system. It is noted that English is officially the second language of the African population and the medium of instruction in all schools. The status of English teaching is surveyed from primary school on up and in all…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Andrews, Sharon Vincz – 1989
A series of 11 propositions about the role of language in learning emerged from the data collected and analyzed in a semester-long collaborative seminar in language arts methods for inservice and preservice teachers. A discussion of each proposition reflects the data that support it. The focus was on teaching as inquiry or research for the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
McLaughlin, Daniel – 1985
Literacy of Navajo Indians within an isolated community of a northeast Arizona Navajo reservation is discussed, based on an ethnographic investigation. Functions for English and Navajo literacy in two community settings where Navajos use standard and vernacular print are described. Using literacy artifacts, participant observation, and interview…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Ethnography, Language Attitudes, Language Role
Peters, Pamela – 1985
Discussions about the value of language-across-the-curriculum policy are often clouded by confusion over two different underlying principles or motives for its implementation: that it stimulates and enhances learning and that it consolidates the teaching and learning of writing in a variety of subject contents. In practice, it is the second…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Boiarsky, Carolyn – 1981
A study and review of the revisions of professional writers reveals 11 functions of revision: (1) altering form, (2) organizing information, (3) creating transitions, (4) deleting information, (5) expanding information, (6) emphasizing information, (7) subordinating information, (8) creating immediacy, (9) improving syntactic structures, (10)…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Language Role, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education
Faul, Alene – 1982
Gender is a structure of language and an attendant attribute for each noun and all of its immediate qualifiers, providing a set of categories into which the nouns of languages are divided. Through the phenomenon of concord, verbs, adjectives, and articles are made to agree with nouns in gender, person, number, and case. Gender classifies language…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, English, Higher Education, Language Attitudes
Alvarez, Celia; And Others – 1984
A collection of papers resulting from a research project on the role of language in the life of a Puerto Rican community in New York City focuses on the discourse of English and Spanish speakers, especially conversational interaction, speech events, and narratives. The papers include: "Toward a Social Theory of Language Variability"…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, English, Language Role
Sridhar, S. N. – 1976
Two mixed varieties of Kannada, Perso-Arabic Kannada and English-Kannada, are analyzed with a view to characterizing the sociolinguistic functions of such mixed languages. The introduction consists of a definition of code-mixing, a brief review of earlier studies, and a statement of the aim and scope of the present study. Section Two is devoted to…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dravidian Languages
Eberhart, Ozella Mae Yowell – 1976
The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which 121 Kansas elementary school students in grades one, three, and six understood masculine generic nouns to include females. An original measurement instrument was constructed which consisted of two forms, identical with regard to pictures and format but differing in the inclusion of…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Language Research
Paquette, F. Andre – Foreign Lang Ann, 1969
An address presented at the Second Annual Meeting, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, December 1968.
Descriptors: Current Events, Educational Objectives, Language Instruction, Language Role
LINK, WILLIAM R. – 1968
FOR AMERICA TO ACHIEVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN SOCIETY, IN A WORLD WHERE ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DEPRIVATION ARE THE NORM, THE SPANISH LANGUAGE MUST BE RECOGNIZED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT, AND POTENTIALLY THE MOST REWARDING, PART OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. LANGUAGE PREFERENCES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE GENERALLY FOLLOWED THE…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Humanities, Language Programs, Language Role
Perren, G. E., Ed. – 1979
This is the first of two volumes of working papers produced by working groups of the National Congress on Languages in Education. The papers in this volume are concerned with the priorities to be accorded to non-native languages at all levels of education in Britain. The following papers are included: (1) "Foreign Languages in the School…
Descriptors: Careers, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Language Planning
KONRAD, N.I. – 1964
ORIENTALISTS HAVE OBSERVED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL "STANDARD" LANGUAGES OF CHINA AND JAPAN AS A GRADUAL REPLACEMENT OF THE OLD "WRITTEN-LITERARY" LANGUAGE BY THE "COLLOQUIAL" SPOKEN LANGUAGE. THE AUTHOR DEFINES "WRITTEN-LITERARY" LANGUAGE, CORRESPONDING TO "WEN-YEN" IN CHINESE AND…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Japanese
Riegel, Klaus F., Ed. – 1965
This document includes 10 articles dealing with five specific areas of language development. Two articles and a commentary cover each area. Resumes of the articles have been assigned the following numbers: memory functions (PS 001 487 and PS 001 488), associations and verbal habits (PS 001 489 and PS 001 490), language perception and…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Language Acquisition
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