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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Strategies for Building Social Connection through English: Challenges for Immigrants and Implications for Teaching English as a Second Language
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Taylor-Leech, Kerry; Yates, Lynda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This article draws on ethnographic data from a longitudinal study of newly-arrived immigrants of non English-speaking background in the Australian Adult Migrant English Program to investigate their opportunities for using English and the language learning strategies (LLS) they used to make the most of these opportunities. Analysis of their reports…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Learning Strategies, Ethnography, Immigrants
Rekindling Warm Embers: Teaching Aboriginal Languages in the Tertiary Sector
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Gale, Mary-Anne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper reviews the teaching of Aboriginal languages in the tertiary sector of Australia, looking at the stronger languages taught in the university sector versus those languages under revival that tend to be taught in the TAFE sector. The paper summarises the status of courses offered state by state, and sets the scene with some historical…
Descriptors: Universities, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Multiple-Response Sequences in Classroom Talk
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Ko, Sungbae – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper examines multiple-response sequences (MRSs), occurring in adult Korean TESOL classrooms, to show the responses produced by students in the language classroom are not always confined within the boundaries of a single response, but are likely to be seen as mutually orienting to, and collaborating to produce a comprehensible outcome to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Communication, Student Reaction, Asians