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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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Integration of Dynamic Assessment and Instructional Conversations to Promote Development and Improve Assessment in the Language Classroom
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Davin, Kristin J. – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This article explores how a primary school teacher utilized the frameworks of dynamic assessment (DA) and the instructional conversation (IC) within a Spanish as a foreign language classroom. DA was used to construct zones of proximal development with individuals in the classroom context. A menu of pre-scripted assisting prompts, used to respond…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
To Be or Not to Be--The Variable Use of the Verb "Be" in the Interlanguage of Hong Kong Chinese Children
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Lee, Nancy; Huang, Yue Yuan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
The English verb "be" has always been a perceived problem for Chinese ESL learners, however, few studies have been conducted with a specific focus on the interlanguage "be" of Chinese ESL learners. This paper examines the variable use of the English verb "be" of 270 Hong Kong primary school children for developmental patterns of English language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Verbs, Interlanguage, Foreign Countries