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An Introspective Workshop On The Teaching/Learning Process, Prentiss Wharton Phillips

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This is a course outline for a 16+hour teacher-training workshop. It is designed for about 16 participants. The purpose of the workshop is to engage teachers and prospective teachers in the processes of self evaluation, goal formation and the development/application of more effective ways to teach. This is done through a series of introspective/extra-spective exercises based on four central questions:

What kind of teacher are you now? What is teaching/learning? How do you want to be as a teacher? How can you reach your objectives?

These questions are systematically explored in four corresponding units. Some of the questions are worked …

Training Program For Teachers Of English As A Second Language Service English Program/American Peace Corps, Iran, 1974, Vernon Arthur Nelson

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No abstract provided.

A Guide For Teaching English At Language Schools In Osaka & Kyoto, Japan - A Description And Analysis With Job Hunting Reports, Kimiko Kunii

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This is a report about teaching conditions in the private language schools based on my own direct experience and on information collected from interviews and from a questionnaire sent to schools in Kyoto and Osaka, Japan. The teaching conditions in lower secondary schools are also written in contrast to those of the private language schools. The questionnaries collected from each school are attached in this report.

Lipson Boxes: Square Or Not, Edna Christina Graef

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"The Humanistic Teacher: A Student Directed Exploration", A Syllabus In Human Relations And A Report On Its Use, Christina Tischler Gibbons

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This paper consists of two parts: a syllabus for a course in Human Relations entitled "The Humanistic Teacher: A Student Directed Exploration", and introductory materials which describe the motivations for planning the course, its goals, its testing and evaluation in 1974-75, and recommendations for its further use. The course is specifically designed for use in the Master of Arts in Teaching program of the School for International Training. Its primary goal is to help students focus on the meaning of being a humanistic teacher. It is organized so that students can work by themselves or in study groups but without …

Training Teachers Of English-As-A-Second Language: Four In-Service Workshop Presentation Plans, Ruth L. Crouthamel

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This paper consists of four in-service workshop presentation plans for teachers of English-as-a-Second Language. It is intended to help both teachers and teacher trainers in that field. The chapters include information and exercises on the Silent Way, values clarification, Lipson techniques, and other games and exercises.

Popurri Espanol: A Resource Book For Spanish Teachers, Louis Carmine Cornelio

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In an attempt to provide a useful reference, resource and idea book for teachers of Spanish, this paper addresses such diverse topics as pronunciation, composition, games, reading, and the functional-notional syllabus in Spanish. Theoretical considerations, practical guidelines, and sample activities are given along with useful examples of proverbs, slang, and other lexical references which will assist the teacher in developing activities to supplement Spanish courses at the beginning and intermediate level.

English As A Second Language In Up With People: A Proposal And Plan For Implementation, Cynthia Gay Barnes

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The purpose of this paper is to provide the Up With People organization with a clear and workable plan for implementing an English as a Second Language program as a part of their existing program.

The paper is presented in two parts. The first part includes a description of the Up With People program focusing on its need for an English as a Second Language program. The various benefits to UP With People are explained. Also in the first part of the paper are descriptions of two language learning programs, Spanish Language Training at Oaxtepec, Mexico, July, 1980, and The …

A Booklet Of Narratives For The Esl Classroom, Alice Raidl Blount

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This project deals with a set of ten narratives and illustrations. The narratives become progressively more difficult. Each line of the narrative has steps giving questions, substitution drills, and ideas on how to teach particular grammatical points. At the end of each narrative there is a supplementary material to be used once all of the preceding material is mastered.

Toward Community: A Tentative Theory Of Group Process, And Its Implications For Teachers, Elizabeth Ann Sparks

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A Guide To Writing Tefl Materials For Groups Of 3-5 Students: Rationale And Techniques, Richard G. Price

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An Open Corridor Esl Workshop: A Supplemental English Program At Sit, John B. Millett Jr.

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This report is a description of the creation and workings of an Open Corridor ESL Workshop designed as a supplement to an intensive ESL program. The workshop's form is based on the beliefs that learners learn in different ways, have different needs and interests which should be reflected in the content of activities, and can take the responsibility for their learning. An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this workshop and recommendations for improvement and use in different situations are presented in the final section.

The Teaching Of English In Africa: An Evaluation Through Interviews With Former Teachers, Lucy Lawson

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This project concerns itself with the Problems of English Teaching in Africa and suggestions toward improvement.

The writer, after three years' experience in American public schools, universities, and other educational programs, has come to realize that there is much to be done to improve teacher training methods and techniques in the teacher training colleges and in-service training of teachers in Africa. Workshop programs with new and developing materials of teaching and techniques are recommended as one solution to these deficiencies.

The ideas in this paper grew out of interviews with former American teachers of English in Africa and also articles …

A Manual Of Self-Instructional Techniques For Learning A Foreign Language, Michael Jerald

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This paper is meant to serve as a handbook for learning a new language without formal instruction. It started from notes perapared for students in the intensive foreign language classes at the School for International Training who wanted to know what they could do, without taking a formal course, to optimize their continued learning once they got overseas. They had had training in the basic grammatical patterns and pronunciation of the language and had been exposed to a limited amount of vocabulary; their question was one of knowing how to use the envorinment (in the countries to which they were …

A Report On Leading A Group To Germany, 1973, Katharine E. Hill

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A Model Teacher Training Schedule For The Intensive Language Programs Of The Foreign Language Office At The School For International Training, Richard Jagger

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This is a suggested teacher training program for the Foreign Language Office of the School for International Training. It includes a consideration of the steps leading to communicative competence; assumptions about trainees; a model schedule; suggestions for implementing it; and a detailed elaboration of the schedule.

A Teacher's Pronunciation Manual, Nancy Iglehart Foote

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A Teacher's Pronunciation Manual is a compilation of various techniques, games and technical information to aid the teacher in his work on pronunciation in the classroom. There are several methods for minimal pair drills, sample tongue twisters, diagnostic pronunciation tests and advice on making pronunciation tapes. Each sound in English has a discussion of its production, various minimal pairs, sample sentences and exercises and one or more techniques for the classroom. A bibliography is included for the further reference.

Teaching English As A Foreign Language To Younger Japanese Children, Viviane D. Fleischer

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Values Clarification In The Language Classroom, John Croes, Diane Goldsmith, Ruth Howell, Jock Montgomery

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Random Reality: On How To Develop A Set Of Visual Aids For The Esl Classroom, Edward A. Chmelewski

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This report explains to the ESL teacher how he or she may develop a set of visual aid materials to give his or her foreign students a better understanding of life and culture in the U.S.A., and at the same time teach them ESL. Also included are a number of slides, sample biographies, sample tape scripts, and a teacher's guide from my own project.

A Descriptive Report Of A Teacher Training Workshop At The School For International Training, August, 1973, Peter Mcleod Boggs

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An Intensive Teacher Training Program: 1973 Ict-Tefl Module, Mary Katherine Anzinger

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The following paper is a report describing a TEFL teacher training program taught to the International Career Training students at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont. It includes : a two-week detailed lesson plan of classroom activities for module participants, a description of their practice-teaching with sample lesson plans and evaluations, participants' evaluations of the course, suggestions for improvement of future modules, and administrative details involved in setting up a course of this type on the SIT campus.

Student-Teaching In Greece: Organization, Precision, And Awareness In The Classroom, Frederica Hermansen

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A Critique Of Language Learning And Theory In The Audio-Lingual Method Of Teaching English As A Foreign Language, Stephen Gregory Hanchey

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In this paper I investigate the claims on which many present ESL methods are based and examine them in view of recent developments in both learning theory and linguistics. There are reasons to think that the audio-lingual method is grounded in inadequate theories of learning and linguistics; if so, this warrants experiments in new methods and re-examination of such currently acceptable teaching methods as repetition, imitation, and pattern practice. In particular, I examine the practices of the audiolingual method which are based on behaviorist and structural linguistic theories, especially those practices which are extensions of theories about child language acquisition, …

A Summer's Learning Experience, Arlene Feskanich

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The English As Second Language Program, Phillips Academy Summer Session 1973: A Description And An Evaluation With Reccomendations For Future Programs, Ronnie Wallach, Manjula Bhaskaran

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On Becoming A Leader, Patricia A. Wall

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M.A.T. Teaching Internships In Japan - 1973, Nancy Dodd Uhl

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Daily Lessons For A 3 Week Intensive Japanese Course, Chiyo Masaki Soroken

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This paper is designed to provide ideas for daily lesson planning for a three week intensive course. The specific teaching methods are pointed out for most of the material according to the characteristics of the particular items. Realizing the importance of visual aids in foreign language teaching, helpful pictures are included in the text as well as several picture files.

The Foreign Professional Institute Of Language Instruction As A Prospective Place Of Employment: Berlitz As A Focal Case Study: Boon Or Brothel, Paul E. Soroken

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Do foreign professional institutes of language instruction offer a viable prospect of employment for the trained ESL teacher? Taking Berlitz as a focal example, many of the more salient features of this organization have been pointed out and additional comments added where attributes of other institutes with which the author is acquainted vary.

Certainly these institutes show some variance but many attributes remain stable. The prospective employee is urged to know well exactly which aspects pointed out in this paper exist in the particular institute he is considering.