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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED341251 AUTHOR: Geach, June, Comp.
TITLE: Community Languages. Sources and Resources.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
NOTE: 95 p.
AVAILABILITY: Centre for Information on Language Teaching
and Research, Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's
Park, London NW1 4NS, England, United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT: This European-focused guide covers basic sources
of English language information for teachers of community
languages, other language teachers, and language teaching
support personnel regarding the background and teaching of
European Community languages in Great Britain. The guide
complements Centre for Information on Language Teaching
Information Guide 1: "English as a Second Language: Sources
and Resources." It includes items on the psychology and
sociology of maintaining mother tongues outside of their
natural context. Contents provide information on the
following: organizations and associations, periodicals,
teachers' centers and their services, specialist
publishers, and a bibliography. An introduction reviews the
current issues against which the contents were selected,
including the training of ethnic minority teachers to teach
community languages, and developments in GCSE for community
languages.
The bibliography is categorized as follows: educational
issues; administration and policy; interculturalism and
language diversity; teaching problems and methodology;
testing, examining, assessment; materials, bibliographies
and surveys; films; suppliers; teachers' centers and their
services; and specialist publishers with multilingual
books.
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KEY DESCRIPTORS: Annotated-Bibliographies; Cross-Cultural
Training; Cultural-Pluralism; Foreign-Countries; Language
Planning; Language-Tests; Minority-Groups; Resource
Materials; Teaching-Methods
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *English-Second-Language; *Second-Language
Instruction; *Second-Language-Learning
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