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Crochet, Monique Y. – 1985
In response to a need for a college textbook that would be appropriate for a course in French for health and social services professionals, an anthology was developed for second semester intermediate or third year students of French. The book and course are intended to meet the linguistic needs of current and future health care professionals and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), French
Jones, Frances – 1986
This booklet outlines the instructions for 10 games that have proved to be effective in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) courses. The games presented are divided into four categories: dialog games, vocabulary games, structure focus, and pronunciation practice. "The Chain Game" calls for students to take turns asking each other…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Dialogs (Language)
Ayers, Donald M.; Worthen, Thomas D. – 1986
Intended for English and foreign language instruction at the junior college, university, or high school level, this textbook aims to help students "crack the code" of English in order to become better speakers and writers. Part 1 contains 25 lessons on roots, prefixes, and suffixes from Latin, and Part 2 contains 25 lessons on word…
Descriptors: Definitions, English Instruction, Etymology, Greek
Reyes-Tudela, Jose E. – 1987
A commercial Spanish course offered at Marywood College (Scranton, Pennsylvania) serves both Spanish majors and majors in international business. In addition to language proficiency activities common to most commercial language courses, students have identified two projects as most functional and challenging: (1) a "carpeta" or file into…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Class Activities
Ward, Annita Marie – 1988
Semantic mapping, which involves the application of vocabulary meanings, increases cognitive processing, and develops the cognitive structure, is recommended for use with literacy students in adult learning centers. Semantic mapping can be used as a prereading or prewriting stimulus, or as a postreading check of comprehension. Also, developing…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes
Download full textFlorida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Education for Exceptional Students. – 1987
One of a series of Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students (PASS) packages developed to provide Florida teachers with modified approaches for presenting content courses to mainstreamed exceptional students, this guide was designed as a supplementary text and workbook for a high school English course. The guide is divided into eight units of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Learning Problems, Literature
Travers, John P. – 1988
A sizeable and convincing body of research continues to indicate that children gain competence and confidence in using the English language when it is situated within a context that is at once purposive and pleasurable. Both empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest that exposure to a wide variety of good children's literature provides an effective…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Bureau of French Education. – 1987
This guide outlines the Manitoba Department of Education's conversational French-as-a-second-language curriculum for kindergarten and first grade. The program is designed to introduce young children to the French language and culture through the learning of French sounds, vocabulary, and some sentence patterns. An introductory section explains the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Conversational Language Courses, Course Content, Cultural Awareness
Requests for Specific Language Input: Differences between Older and Younger Adult Language Learners.
Brown, Cheryl – 1983
A study of the kinds of requests for foreign language information made by adult students of Spanish, and a comparison of the kinds of inquiries made by students aged 19 to 23 and those over 55 years, are reported. The objective was to learn more about what language learning processes are contributing to the difference in success of the two groups.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Age Differences
Tiedt, Sidney W.; Tiedt, Iris M. – 1987
This second edition of a text has been organized into a sequence that reflects how students learn language--from listening and speaking to reading and writing. The book begins with an overview of the language arts and the teacher's role in planning instruction. Chapters 2 and 3, "Listening to Learn" and "Developing Oral…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum
Steckbeck, Pamela Meza – 1988
The guide was designed for speech pathologists, bilingual teachers, and specialists in English as a second language who work with Spanish-speaking children. The guide contains twenty illustrated stories that facilitate the learning of auditory sequencing, auditory and visual memory, receptive and expressive vocabulary, and expressive language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; Matsumoto, Yo, Ed. – 1988
The proceedings include the following papers: "Why We Study Child Language"; "Children's Use of Information in Word Learning"; "An Examination of the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings"; "Evidence for the VP Constituent from Child Korean"; "The Role of Stress, Position, and Intonation in the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1987
A set of instructional materials on technical French for mathematics instruction is designed for Peace Corps volunteers teaching math in Gabon. The materials consist of six lessons on the use of French to teach and express mathematical concepts and procedures, and information about the Gabonese educational system, in English. The French lessons…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, French
Bellama, David – 1976
The student manual of a Hausa language course is designed for the training of Peace Corps volunteers in Nigeria. It consists of 12 lessons emphasizing grammar and vocabulary development for interpersonal communication. Lesson topics include daily communication needs and market vocabulary and expressions. The lessons contain information and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1987
A guide to Pulaar is designed for language learning by Peace Corps volunteers. It contains a pronunciation guide to the Pulaar alphabet, 12 language lessons for interpersonal and intercultural communication, and glossaries. The glossaries are in Pulaar, English, and French; all text is in English. The lessons consist of cultural information, a…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cultural Context, Dialogs (Language), Family Life
