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Peer reviewedBrown, Gillian – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
Understanding spontaneous speech is a very difficult task for many foreign students. They must be taught to use all the ethnographic cues available to enable them to predict the likely content of a text. They must predict not only the factual content of spoken language but also the interactional structuring. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Training, Aural Learning
Direct linkKapitzke, Cushla – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
This article uses Nikolas Rose's theory of governmentality to examine ways in which intellectual property is imbricated in a broad spectrum of globalised and globalising discourses. Using the 2004 Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement as a case in point, it shows how discourses of culture, trade, foreign policy, and security intersect and…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Treaties
Freed, Barbara F., Ed. – 1995
The collection of essays on second language learning during study abroad includes: "Language Learning and Study Abroad" (Barbara F. Freed); "Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad" (Richard D. Brecht, Dan E. Davidson, Ralph B. Ginsberg); "A Canadian Interprovincial Exchange: Evaluating the Linguistic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Discourse Analysis
Download full textKitao, Kenji; Kitao, S. Kathleen – 1986
The problems encountered by native Japanese-speakers in reading English as a second language are examined. The available literature on the subject as well as firsthand experiences in teaching English, developing reading materials, and conducting research projects are discussed. The discussion focuses on five major areas: the reading process; the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Context Clues
Rettig, Heike, Ed. – 1995
This proceedings contains papers from the first European seminar of the Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) include: "Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe in Language Engineering" (Poul Andersen); "Language Technology and Language Resources in China" (Feng Zhiwei); "Public Domain Generic Tools:…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Contrastive Linguistics
Pluridicta, 1993
The following titles are included: (1) "Computer in Foreign Language Instruction"; (2) "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Prose and Poetry in Translation"; (3) "Notions of Culture in Foreign Language Departments in Different Countries"; (4) "Developing Materials for Teaching Danish to Adult Immigrants"; (5) "Conversational Strategies in Expressive,…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Communication, Cultural Differences, Danish
Sadik, Alaa; Reisman, Sorel – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2004
This article presents sets of observations and recommendations for Web-based distance learning, based on formative and summative performance and opinion data collected from participants involved in the design, development, and utilization of Wired Class, a Web-based learning environment that was developed to teach mathematics to Egyptian secondary…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Web Based Instruction, Educational Environment, Internet
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1994
This volume on pragmatics and language learning includes the following: "'Cultural Scripts': A Semantic Approach to Cultural Analysis and Cross-Cultural Communication" (Anna Wierzbicka); "Issues in Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Context" (Ayo Bamgbose); "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research and the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Counseling
Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1987
Papers presented at the conference on applied linguistics include the following: "Speaking of Grammars: Is Big Beautiful?" (Jan Svartvik); "A Sociosemiotic View of the Grasp of Language at Reality: The Lexical Field 'Aesthetic Judgment'" (Wolfgang Kuhlwein); "Language as a Target and Instrument of the Educational Process…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Bierema, Laura L.; Tisdell, Elizabeth; Johnson-Bailey, Juanita; Gedro, Julie – 2002
The human resource development (HRD) profession needs to continue to develop its core theories and to integrate new theories into the body of knowledge. Creating new knowledge is of essential importance to both HRD practitioners and researchers. As an emerging field, HRD is in the process of defining itself as a discipline. Currently, there are…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Andragogy, Culture Lag, Discourse Analysis
Anderson, Linda – 2000
The relationship between life history, gender, and the discourse of modernization was examined from the perspective of a researcher with extensive experience performing evaluations about modernization within human services in Denmark. Three stories about site-based management in two human service institutionsa youth center and a boarding school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Biographies, Comparative Analysis
McDonald, Marya; Castleton, Geraldine – 2001
This document critiques various discourses about mentoring within the context of adult learning environments in general and adult literacy programs in particular. Mentoring is defined as an enabling or developmental relationship that occurs in partnerships wherein experienced individuals kindle knowledge and offer support to protgs in joint…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
O'Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Essays in applied linguistics presented in this annual review include: "Learner Autonomy: Some Steps in the Evolution of Theory and Practice" (David Little); "An Investigation of the Mental Lexicon of Second Language Learners" (Elizabeth O'Gorman); "Strategies for Identifying Terms in Specialised Texts" (Jennifer Pearson); "Inferencing and the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Citations (References), Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Payne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1999
The 1999 issues of "Notes on Linguistics," published quarterly, include the following articles, review articles, reviews, book notices, and reports: "A New Program for Doing Morphology: Hermit Crab"; "Lingualinks CD-ROM: Field Guide to Recording Language Data"; "'Unruly' Phonology: An Introduction to Optimality Theory"; "Borrowing vs. Code…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Canada Natives, Code Switching (Language)
Embleton, Sheila, Ed. – 1998
Forty-one papers on language research and linguistic theory from the annual conference address these topics: linguistic philosophy; aspects of phonetics and phonology; topics in syntax; aspect; topics in semantics; topics in discourse analysis; sociolinguistics and language contact; historical linguistics; metatheory; and interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Canada Natives, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
