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Download full textRosenbusch, Marcia Harmon, Ed. – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006
The National Assessment Summit was designed to bring together users and producers of assessments and engage them in a discussion of unmet assessment needs and untapped assessment capacities. The meeting was truly a summit in that national foreign language organizations and associations were asked to nominate representatives to bring their…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Tests, Educational Practices, Language Acquisition
Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences. Impact Studies in Language and Society.
Putz, Martin, Ed. – 1997
The collection of essays on language contact and language conflict includes: "Language Choices: Contact and Conflict?" (Martin Putz); "Language Ecology: Contact Without Conflict" (Peter Muhlhausler); "Towards a Dynamic View of Multilingualism" (Ulrike Jessner); "A Matter of Choice" (Florian Coulmas); The…
Descriptors: Arabic, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Creoles
Fernandez, Geraldine – 1992
A study investigated the effectiveness of enrichment activities in developing the language proficiency, comprehension, and critical thinking skills of limited-English-proficient (LEP) children. Subjects were 19 LEP students (out of an original group of 21) in kindergarten through grade 5, who participated in enrichment activities including…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Computer Oriented Programs, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking
Bishop, Tom – 1985
A series of main goals and a number of secondary objectives for the Torrance School District (California) bilingual education program are outlined and their attainment assessed. The objectives apply specifically to Japanese and Korean students of limited English proficiency in four elementary schools. The goals envision the following outcomes:…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Education
Jaquith, Paul, Ed. – Cross Currents, 1991
"Cross Currents" is subtitled "an International Journal of Language Teaching and Cross-Cultural Communication." This special theme issue is devoted to the topic of "content-based language teaching" and contains nine the ELT Needs of Japanese University Students"; "Exploring Community in a Content-Based…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, College Students
Stansfield, Charles W., Ed. – 1986
This collection of essays on measurement theory and language testing includes: "Computerized Adaptive Testing: Implications for Language Test Developers" (Peter Tung); "The Promise and Threat of Computerized Adaptive Assessment of Reading Comprehension" (Michael Canale); "Computerized Rasch Analysis of Item Bias in ESL…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software
Anivan, Sarinee, Ed. – 1991
The selection of papers on language testing includes: "Language Testing in the 1990s: How Far Have We Come? How Much Further Have We To Go?" (J. Charles Alderson); "Current Research/Development in Language Testing" (John W. Oller, Jr.); "The Difficulties of Difficulty: Prompts in Writing Assessment" (Liz Hamp-Lyons,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Cues
Fischer, Robert A. – 1978
Proponents of the cognitive approach to language teaching list linguistic competence as the primary instructional objective and attribute considerable importance to listening comprehension. For the student, linguistic competence would be knowledge of grammatical components of the language and its vocabulary. Understanding oral messages is an…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Day, Richard R. – 1976
This is a report of the results of an investigation of a test of plurality and past tense in standard English (SE). This research replicated Gleason's 1957-58 study in Boston. The subjects were 27 speakers of Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) in a kindergarten class in Honolulu. The results showed that the children produced very few SE plural and past…
Descriptors: Creoles, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Dialect Studies
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1978
This journal consists of guides to instructional materials and articles on subjects of interest to teachers in bilingual education programs. The following articles and regular features appear in this issue: (1) "Social Class or Culture? -- A Fundamental Issue in the Education of Culturally Different Students," by Frank Angel, an excerpt from a…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Behavior Change, Biculturalism
Jorstad, Helen L. – 1974
The principal aim of testing is to communicate to the student the extent to which he has progressed in attempting to fulfill his goals. Progress in the testing field is observed especially as a step in a feedback loop that includes goals, tasks, and evaluation procedures for providing feedback to the student. The teacher-as-learner also uses test…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Criterion Referenced Tests
Sutherland, Kenton, Ed. – 1977
This volume of CATESOL (California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Occasional Papers includes the following: "ESL Adult Literacy," by Jack Wigfield; "Language Teaching as a Means to Self Knowledge, Self Acceptance, and Communication with Others," by Beverly Galyean; "Let Your Students Be Actors: Using Videotape…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education
Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem (Israel). – 1977
This journal, published in Israel, contains articles of interest to teachers of English as a second language, particularly those in Hebrew-English situations. This issue contains the following articles: (1) "Evaluating the Teacher's 'Control of English'," by R. Gefen; (2) "Instructional Television and the English Proficiency Level…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Educational Games
David, Jacques – 1975
This series is designed to provide educators in a number of fields with information based on international experience. The intention is to suggest ways of improving the effectiveness of administrators and the performance of teachers and pupils. This guide was the result of a meeting of educators from organizations supported by UNESCO to teach…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Office of International and Bilingual Education. – 1976
The Texas Education Agency provides bilingual education/teacher training institutes and contracts with school districts, colleges, universities, education service centers and individuals to conduct these institutes throughout the state. This manual was developed as a guide or model for the implementation of the training institutes. The manual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers, Educational Media
