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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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Hu, Ran – TESL-EJ, 2013
The Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) method has been the proposed teaching method under the current national English curriculum since 2001. However, few studies have investigated in-service teachers' response to this proposed language teaching method. In this study, thirty public school English teachers were recruited in Beijing across school…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Davies, Paul – TESL-EJ, 2009
English as a foreign/second language teaching (ELT) is notably successful in some national public educational systems and unsuccessful in others. Holland, Singapore and Sweden are outstanding examples of great success in the strategic management of ELT in their public educational systems. General failures abound, particularly in countries that…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
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Fonken, Gael – TESL-EJ, 2008
This ethnographic reflection foregrounds the efforts a K-12 English-medium (EM) school in Kolkata is making to pull EM schooling more fully into India's multilingual ethos. By focusing on the special needs of a small group of struggling working-class girls, the successes of the majority of working-class students at this school become more visible.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Educational Change