Book Description
This volume incorporates the national standards for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French, German, Italian, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Author : National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
This volume incorporates the national standards for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French, German, Italian, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Author : Deborah Blaz
Publisher : Eye On Education
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781930556447
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : TESOL International Association
Publisher : Tesol Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
The revised PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards build on the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessments (WIDA) Consortium's English Language Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners in Kindergarten through Grade 12 (Wisconsin, 2004). The WIDA Consortium is a group of ten states, formed in 2002 with federal monies, that has developed comprehensive English language proficiency standards. This volume also uses grade-level clusters that reflect current educational configurations in the United States. Each of the five language proficiency standards is divided into the four language domains of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The five levels of language proficiency reflect characteristics of language performance at each developmental stage and include: starting (L1), emerging (L2), developing (L3), expanding (L4), and bridging (L5).
Author : Kathleen Stein-Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319341596
This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.S. foreign language deficit negatively impacts national and economic security, business and career prospects. Stein-Smith exposes how individuals are disadvantaged through their inability to effectively navigate the global workplace and multicultural communities, how their career options are limited by the foreign language deficit, and even how their ability to enjoy travel abroad and cultural pursuits is diminished. Through exploring the impact of the U.S. foreign language deficit, the author speaks to the stakeholders and partners in the campaign for foreign languages, offering guidance on what can and should be done to address it. She examines the next steps needed to develop specific career pathways that will meet the current and future needs of government, business, and industry, and empower foreign language learners through curriculum and career preparation.
Author : Edward Trimnell
Publisher : Beechmont Crest Pub
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780974833019
"The first half of this book examines the commercial, social, and political implications of American monolingualism. The second half of the book explores the techniques and tools that a working professional can use to acqure functional skills in a new language."--Back cover.
Author : June K. Phillips
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Paula Winke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030010066
This volume comprises of chapters that deal with language proficiency relating to a wide range of language program issues including curriculum, assessment, learners and instructors, and skill development. The chapters cover various aspects of a broad-based proficiency initiative, focusing on numerous aspects of foreign language learning, including how skills develop, how assessments can inform curriculum, how learners and instructors view proficiency and proficiency assessment, and how individual use of technology furthers language learning. The concluding chapter points the way forward for issues and questions that need to be addressed.
Author : Gulbahar H. Beckett
Publisher : IAP
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1607527162
Dewey's idea of Project-based Learning (PBL) was introduced into the field of second language education nearly two decades ago as a way to reflect the principles of student-centered teaching (Hedge, 1993). Since then, PBL has also become a popular language and literacy activity at various levels and in various contexts (see Beckett, 1999; Fried-Booth, 2002; Levis & Levis, 2003; Kobayashi, 2003; Luongo- Orlando, 2001; Mohan & Beckett, 2003; Weinstein, 2004). For example, it has been applied to teach various ESL and EFL skills around the world (e.g., Fried-Booth, 2002). More recently, PBL has been heralded as the most appropriate approach to teaching content-based second language education (Bunch, et al., 2001; Stoller, 1997), English for specific purposes (Fried-Booth, 2002), community-based language socialization (Weinstien, 2004), and critical and higher order thinking as well as problem-solving skills urged by the National Research Council (1999). Despite this emphasis, there is a severe shortage of empirical research on PBL and research-based frameworks and models based on sound theoretical guidance in general and second and foreign language education in particular (Thomas, 2000). Also missing from the second and foreign language education literature is systematic discussion of PBL work that brings together representative work, identifying obvious gaps, and guiding the field toward future directions. This, first of its kind, volume bridges these obvious gaps through the original work of international scholars from Canada, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the US.
Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780814254431
Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd edition, by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume, systematically explores all the aspects of language central to second language learning: the sounds of language, the different grammatical structures, the tools and strategies for learning, the social functions of communication, and the psychology of language learning and use.
Author : California. Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Curriculum evaluation
ISBN :