Language and Learning [microform] / Norman Bird, Ed
- Bib ID:
- 5585847
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Hong Kong Education Dept. Inst. of Language in Education
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED386042
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1994
- 562 p.
- ISBN:
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- 9789627854388
- 9627854387
- Summary:
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Papers from a 1993 International Conference on Language in Education include: "A Language Development Approach to Education" (M. A. K. Halliday); Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as a Semiotic Apprenticeship" (G. Wells); "Chinese Orthography and Reading" (O. J. L. Tzeng); "Task-Centred Assessment in Language Learning" (G. Brindley); "Task as a Unit of Teaching Analysis" (S. J. Hall); "Using a Functional Approach in Assessing Written Texts" (D. Nunan); "Steppe by Step: A Cultural Approach to Language Tasks" (C. Barron); "Coherence and Continuity in the Task-Centred Language Curriculum: Global Education as a Framework for Task-Based Language Teaching" (B. Bushell, B. Dyer); "From Task Description to Task Enactment: Teachers' Interpretation of Language Learning Tasks" (G. T. Sachs, S. Kong, A. Lo, T. Lee); "How Students Revise Propositions" (P. Falvey, S. Sengupta); "Writing from Sources: Does Source Material Help or Hinder Students' Performance?" (J. A. Lewkowicz); "Effects of Signalling on Reading Comprehension" (I. K. B. Lee); "The Variety and Effectiveness of Strategies Employed in Vocabulary Explanations in EFL Classes in Hong Kong" (A. L. On-lai); "English Extensive Reading in the Primary Curriculum" (V. Yu, E. Chu, S. Yuen-lan, R. Yau); "Investigating Lexis beyond the Most Frequent Words, Part 2" (N. Bird); "The Future Role of EFL Textbook Resources in Hong Kong" (B. Adamson, J. C. K. Lee); "Concordancing for School" (V. Pickard, K. Chan, J. Tibbetts); "What Makes Authentic Materials Different? The Case of English Language Materials for Educational Television" (A. McNeill); "Resources for the Independent EFL Learner in Japan" (S. M. Ryan); "Action Research Contributes More to Teaching Than Just Solving Discrete Problems in the Classroom" (A. Mueller); "Computer-Mediated Communication and Teacher Education: The Case of Telenex" (D. Coniam, S. Sengupta, A. B. M. Tsui, W. Kam-yin); "Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Good and Poor Chinese EFL Learners" (G. Yong-qi); "Chinese Readers' Metacognitive Awareness in Reading Chinese and English" (C. Chern); "The Impact of Illustrations and Cultural Schemata on Hong Kong Pupils' Reading Comprehension and Recall of Text" (T. Dolan); "Word Printed Frequency/Familiarity and Structure Complexity Effects on L1 and L2 Word Recognition Processes in Chinese" (Y. Sun); "A Word in Your Ear: To What Extent Does Hearing a New Word Help Learners To Remember It?" (M. Hill); "Pig in the Middle? Effects of Mediating Tasks on Cognitive Processing of Text" (D. M. Allison, V. Berry, J. Lewkowicz); "The Assessment of Spoken Language Under varying Interactional Conditions" (V. Berry); "The Grammatical Awareness and Knowledge of Hong Kong Teachers of English" (S. Andrews); "Some Characteristics of Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English" (A. McNeill); and "Using Concurrent Verbal Reports as Teaching Tools in Language Teacher Education" (M. Falvey). (MSE)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Selected papers presented at the Annual International Language in Education Conference (Hong Kong, 1993). For individual papers, see FL 023 205, FL 023 207-223, FL 023 225-233, and ED 366 228, ED 368 181, ED 370 411, ED 371 618, and ED 372 600.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Chinese
- Classroom Techniques
- Cognitive Processes
- Educational Strategies
- Educational Television
- Elementary Secondary Education
- English (Second Language)
- Foreign Countries
- Instructional Materials
- Language Acquisition
- Language Patterns
- Language Processing
- Language Research
- Language Teachers
- Language Tests
- Linguistic Theory
- Oral Language
- Orthographic Symbols
- Reading Comprehension
- Reading Instruction
- Second Language Instruction
- Second Language Learning
- Second Languages
- Teacher Education
- Testing
- Verbal Tests
- Vocabulary Development
- Writing Instruction
- Written Language
- Hong Kong
- Authentic Materials Japan
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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