INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON LITERACY RESEARCH
Tags: LITERACY; LANGUAGE & languages; ENGLISH language
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- Biliteracy and SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNERS. Kayser, Hortencia // ASHA Leader;6/22/2004, Vol. 9 Issue 12, p4
Reports increase in the number of children with limited English proficiency in elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Concern of speech-language pathologist about how intervention should be provided in the growing population; Strategies for language and literacy development in young...
- Mind your business language. Damon, Nadia // Training & Coaching Today;Jul/Aug2008, p12
The article examines the problem of substandard grammar among employees in Great Britain. In June 2008, software developer Basic Writing Skills found that two-thirds of respondents would fail a basic literacy test comprising 10 questions. Alison Cowper, learning consultant at training firm...
- Teaching First-Grade Literacy Responsively with Language Arts Standards in Mind. Wold, Linda // Illinois Reading Council Journal;Spring2005, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p22
Focuses on the teaching first-grade literacy in accordance with the Standards for the English Language Arts. Nature and function of responsive teaching; Standards which link reading, writings, speaking, listening and representing communications in the classroom; Impact of the standards on...
- TWENTY QUESTIONS ABOUT TEACHING LANGUAGE. Goodman, Yetta; Goodman, Kenneth // Educational Leadership;Mar1981, Vol. 38 Issue 6, p437
Discusses several statements related to the scientific base of knowledge on which school programs for developing literacy and language teaching can be built. Language learning by children through imitating adults; Comparison between the Japanese and English languages; Interference of dialects...
- Critical Perspectives and English as a Foreign Language: Implications for Practice. Shin-ying Huang // International Journal of the Humanities;2009, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p1
The field of TESOL took a "critical turn" (Kumaravadivelu, 2006) during the 1990s. However, many have expressed concern that a critical perspective has yet to take form in language classrooms in ESL/EFL settings. This may be because critical perspectives, including critical pedagogy, critical...
- Gobbledygook Begone. Lachnit, Carroll // Workforce;Feb2002, Vol. 81 Issue 2, p12
Focuses on the presence of human resource advertisements in the list of winners of the 2001 Golden Bull Award, given by the Plain English Campaign, which fights against confusing language. Government rules for how colleges should go about firing staff members; Training guidelines from the Royal...
- EuroEnglish. // Whole Earth;Fall98, Issue 94, p25
Announces that the European Union commissioners have decided to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German. Details of the plan for the improvement of the language.
- English: The Killer Language? Fishman, Joshua A. // Whole Earth;Spring2000, Issue 100, p13
Talks about the expansive reach of the English language. Reasons to believe that the English language will eventually wane in influence; Interactions that promote the spread of regional languages; Importance of regional languages.
- Examinee abilities and task difficulty in task-based second language performance assessment. Norris, John M.; Brown, James D.; Hudson, Thom D.; Bonk, William // Language Testing;Oct2002, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p395
This article summarizes findings from investigations into the development and use of a prototype English language task-based performance test. Data included performances by 90 examinees on 13 complex and skills-integrative tasks, a priori estimations of examinee proficiency differences, a priori...
