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Ritchie, Annabelle – Babel, 2005
The study of curriculum materials is of interest to social researchers seeking to understand the social constructions of reality. All texts embody a number of purposeful choices about how reality is to be represented, and these choices have consequences for what is "foregrounded, backgrounded, placed in the margins, distorted, short-cut,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Social Class, Textbooks, Values
Scarino, Angela – Babel, 2005
Criteria for judging performance are traditionally and unproblematically invoked as a resource to be used (1) to make the assessment requirements evident to learners and (2) to provide a tool for rendering teacher judgments consistent, reliable, and fair. This paper explores the use of criteria and standards in the process of teacher judgment of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Standards, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Hajdu, Judy – Babel, 2005
Carr (2002), in her investigation of boys' alienation from languages and language learning, addressed the question of an "appropriate curriculum" for boys and boys' understanding of masculinity. Boys reported in that research that they preferred physical activities so found the written text orientation of language learning to be "hard" and…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Student Attitudes, Communication Skills, Gender Differences
Jansen, Louise; Stracke, Elke – Babel, 2005
In collaboration with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Department of Education and Training, the Australian National University has been offering a professional development program for language teachers (called LIFT, or Language Inservice for Teachers) for more than ten years. As the program is specially tailored to meet teachers' current…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Inservice Education, Workshops, German
Carr, Jo – Babel, 2005
The issue of multi-level classrooms and of the increasingly differentiated nature of students' learning experiences continues to be a major challenge for language teachers. It's safe to say that wherever two or more language teachers are gathered together, the "problem" of multi-level classrooms will figure somewhere in the conversation.…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Language Teachers
McLaughlin, Megan; Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Babel, 2005
Intercultural language learning is developing as a key direction in languages education both in Australia and elsewhere. The teaching of culture in language classes is, however, not new to language teaching, and rationales for language teaching have regularly included issues related to cultural understanding (Liddicoat, 2004). However, culture has…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Intercultural Communication
Kohler, Michelle – Babel, 2005
Views about the nature of culture and its relationship to language are constantly changing, and in relation to language learning, recent thinking has culminated in what is being termed "intercultural language learning." This orientation towards the teaching and learning of languages requires engagement with increasingly sophisticated…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Professional Development, Foreign Countries
Kirwan, Leigh – Babel, 2005
The historical development of written Japanese has resulted in an extremely complex system. Modern Japanese is usually written in logosyllabic script consisting of a combination of "kanji," the Chinese characters, and "kana," the Japanese syllables originally formed from them. There are two types of "kana," the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Romanization, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Shield, Margaret – Babel, 2005
One of the challenges facing primary school language teachers is the adaptation of the language syllabus to suit the needs of all of their learners, including those with special educational needs. Research into inclusion of such learners in the regular classroom has shown that adequate support for both child and teacher is essential if a child is…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Inclusive Schools
East, Martin – Babel, 2005
The use of dictionaries in second language proficiency examinations has been the subject of controversy and debate for a good many years. Debate often focuses on how dictionary availability impacts on examination performance as measured, for example, by test scores or by the quality of test-taker responses. This article presents findings of an…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Tests, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries
Veque, Catherine – Babel, 2005
This article reports on strategies used by immersion teachers to modify their speech in order to maintain the use of the target language while sustaining interactive communication and the concomitant teaching of the content and the second language. This classroom-based research, undertaken at Methodist Ladies College (MLC) in Melbourne, sources…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Immersion Programs, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Research
Cross, Russell – Babel, 2005
This paper considers communicative language teaching in relation to what Coyle (2005) describes as the "legacy" of the communicative approach--the dissolution of clearly defined parameters that frame and structure how individuals understand, discuss, and research language teaching in the context of the "communicative…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship
Westwood, Ruth – Babel, 2005
This research project aimed to establish the attributes that are sought by schools in New South Wales when they are selecting new language teachers. The research provided some insight into the decision makers' "wish lists" of desirable attributes. The findings of the project include useful data for employers, teachers, teacher educators,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers
Oliver, Rhonda; Purdie, Nola; Rochecouste, Judith – Babel, 2005
The focus of this study is the relationship between language attitude, beliefs, efficacy, English language competence, and language achievement. Two hundred and eighty-five students from five metropolitan primary schools in Western Australia completed a specially designed questionnaire based on the Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (Gardner,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Beliefs, Self Efficacy
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Caille, Pierre-Francois – Babel, 1974
An international survey of conditions and practices involving translators deals with the following points: (1) change in the legal status and material situation of translators since 1968; (2) translators' associations; (3) translators' training, and (4) encouraging translation of contemporary works. (CK)
Descriptors: Interpreters, Professional Associations, Professional Training, Questionnaires