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Snow, Becky Gerlach; Perkins, Kyle – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article outlines a plan for developing listening comprehension materials for advanced students of English as a second language, based on formal and informal speech samples of natural discourse. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Instructional Materials, Interviews

Eslava, Roslyn; Lawson, Peter O. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article describes a course designed to develop oral skills in English as a second language. A video-taped movie is shown without its sound track; the students then analyze, discuss, and ultimately dub in the film in the target language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)

McKay, Sandra – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This paper illustrates a method for teaching writing that focuses on both the grammatical and communicative aspects of writing. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, English (Second Language), Grammar

Chastain, Kenneth D. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article suggests criteria for evaluating listening comprehension tests. The weaknesses of typical test items are discussed and suggestions for new types of items are given. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Item Analysis, Language Instruction

Trachtenberg, Susan – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Suggests the use of jokes in the English as a second language class to promote oral fluency, awareness of sociolinguistic rules, and understanding of certain values in American culture. (CFM)
Descriptors: American Culture, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education, English (Second Language)

Gajdusek, Linda – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Discusses English as a second language (ESL) theory as it relates to the use of literature, and presents a four-step approach to any literary text that obliges ESL students to take responsibility for building their own successively more complex schemata. This approach is illustrated with Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues

Johns, Ann M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Reviews current literature on coherence in written text, defines coherence in broad terms, and then presents a three-lesson revision unit based on modern coherence principles. In this unit, students "deconstruct" assignment prompts, prepare first drafts, examine another student's first draft, and then revise their essays and examine the revisions.…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cohesion (Written Composition), English for Academic Purposes, Essays

Long, Michael H.; Porter, Patricia A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Discusses both the pedagogical arguments and the psycholinguistic rationale for small-group work in the second language classroom. Claims that the negotiation work possible in group actiity makes it an attractive alternative to the teacher-led discussion. Reviews research findings on interlanguage which generally support the claims made for group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Group Discussion, Interlanguage, Psycholinguistics

Dickerson, Wayne B. – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Discusses the difficulty students of English as a second language have in pronouncing words that contain the "Invisible Y," words such as "continue,""ridiculous," and "community." Presents the rules governing the use of the "Invisible Y" and discusses how standard orthography can be used as a pronunciation resource for learners. (SED)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Orthographic Symbols, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction

Montgomery, Carol; Eisenstein, Miriam – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Describes an experimental oral communication course designed around weekly, structured field trips to sites where students typically need to communicate in English. Students taking this course were also enrolled in a grammar-based English as a second-language course and were compared with a control group taking only the grammar-based course. (SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Field Trips, Grammar Translation Method

Carrell, Patricia L.; Eisterhold, Joan C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Discusses the important role of background knowledge in a psycholinguistic model of EFL/ESL reading and demonstrates the relevance of schema-theoretic views of reading to the teaching of reading to EFL/ESL students. Also discusses classroom implications of the schema-theoretic view and suggests techniques for bringing about reader-centered EFL/ESL…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension

Spack, Ruth; Sadow, Catherine – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Discusses using ungraded, uncorrected journals focusing on academic and class-related concerns as a nonthreatening way for students to practice writing English. Proposes that teachers should become participants in the writing processes by writing journals to the class. (EKN)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods

Lebauer, Roni S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1984
Suggests how transcripts of academic lectures and pseudo-cloze exercises developed from these transcripts may be used to help foreign students to become aware of the skills (e.g., recognition of conventions and cues which signal important information in lectures) involved in the process of listening to lectures. (SL)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cultural Context, Higher Education, Language Proficiency

Acton, William – TESOL Quarterly, 1984
Describes an approach for dealing with the pronunciation of advanced ESL learners who may be relatively fluent but whose pronunciation remains quite inaccurate and highly resistant to change. Suggests a somewhat unorthodox teaching program that draws on research from several disciplines. (SL)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Linguistic Competence

Richards, Jack C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Three dimensions in the teaching of listening comprehension are outlined: (1) a theory is presented that takes account of the cognitive processes used (approach); (2) listeners' needs are analyzed and a taxonomy of microskills and objectives for teaching them are proposed (design); and (3) classroom exercises and activities are suggested…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Listening Comprehension