The Canadian National Core French Study's (NCFS) views on what culture is and how it should be taught is examined and compared with more traditional approaches to the teaching of culture. Implications for educators are discussed in light of the NCFS recommendations and other theoretical positions on the teaching of culture. (six references)…

Suggests that a course in desktop publishing can provide students at rural schools with experience equivalent to internships. Notes that the course provided students with real-world experience and benefited the university in terms of services and public relations. (RS)

Summarizes what was learned from the experience of bringing desktop publishing into the curriculum of a business college, especially regarding hardware, software, textbooks, and assignments. (SR)

Describes an introductory course in instructional communication research for graduate students. Discusses the rationale for such a course, course goals, units and readings, and student evaluation. (SR)

A course taught at Pacific Lutheran University (Washington) encourages students to transform inner creative energy into an expression of their changing, developing identities. Students make shrines to their childhoods, create models, or costume themselves to express their inner lives. (MSE)

Offers a narrative based on a real event, in the form of a "docustory," describing that moment when teaching worked--when, in an instructional setting, communication was "perfect,""best," or "excellent." Describes a university course that involves performance and oral history, in which students perform stories of their own or others' loss or…

Describes a year-long course for reluctant learner (a Cooperative Work Experience course), in which the class built a greenhouse and ran it as a business. Describes how students planned, gathered facts, conducted an organizational meeting, wrote reports, ran the greenhouse, and planned for the next year. (SR)

Describes the design and implementation of the first adjunct course (offering reading and learning strategies to students who are also registered in a credit-bearing content course) at a university, producing desired academic outcomes. Offers recommendations for designing such courses to support learners at risk, and discusses benefits. (SR)

The development of a curriculum that integrates laboratory, field, and nonlaboratory experiences in an undergraduate biology department is described. Some of the laboratory experiences provided students in a Principles of Biology course and how other parts of the upper division curriculum are structured around these key experiments are discussed.…

The early beginnings and subsequent development of the organized syllabus used in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction are reviewed. The changes over the years, especially in the twentieth century, in approaches toward teaching ESL are reviewed. (JL)

Describes using the process method to teach news writing. Emphasizes its usefulness in writing for the reader and editing. (SR)

Describes a course on values in twentieth-century literature. Discusses the teaching of James Joyce's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" and other works. Describes the students' reactions. Asserts that twentieth-century literature should be addressed in a way that encourages students to grow and develop. (PRA)

The fragility of English for Special Purposes (ESP) is examined in the context of a particular British ESP course, European Business Administration. Issues include the characteristic ESP time pressure, the treatment of "hard" terminology in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), the nonlinguistic subject matter of EAP courses, and the use…

The contents of 67 college-level creativity course syllabi were analyzed. A theoretical framework emerged with five dimensions, including social climate, personality characteristics, models or theories, process involved, and product variables related to end results. (DB)

A new set of course descriptions has affected the teaching of writing as part of the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia. The focus of writing is now on the functions of written expression, the writing content and situation, and the domain of writing. (one reference) (LB)