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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED328068 AUTHOR: Brookes, Gay, Ed.; Gantzer, Jack, Ed.


TITLE: Students, Texts, Contexts: Research and Practice in
ESL Instruction. Selected Papers from the CUNY ESL Council
Conference (New York, New York, February 1986).

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
NOTE: 59 p.

ABSTRACT: Papers presented at the City University of New
York's English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Council
conference on the relationship between text and context in
college second language instruction include the following:
"Reading Research: New Directions and Implications for ESL"
(M. Trika Smith-Burke); "Two ESL Readers: Case Studies of
Reading Comprehension Strategies" (Ellen L. Block);
"Reading, an Essential Part of the Writing Process" (Gay
Brookes, Martha Clark Cummings, Jean Withrow); "Easy
Doesn't Do It: Introducing ESL Readers to 'Real English'"
(Nancy Erber Cadet); "Aesopic Double 'Takeoutables'" (Mary
J. Regan); "Two Walks: Ways of Presenting Poetry" (Jean
McConochie); "Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Processing: A
Possible Grounding for Second Language Acquisition
Research" (Gay N. Washburn); "Vygotskian Theory and
Language Testing" (Jack Gantzer); "Person to Person:
Structured Conversations between ESL Students and Native
Speakers" (Carol Montgomery); and "A Writer's Strategy for
Talkers: The Oral Journal" (Sally Mettler). (MSE)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Classroom-Techniques; Diaries-; Fables-;
Higher-Education; Instructional-Materials; Interpersonal
Communication; Language-Research; Language-Tests;
Literature Appreciation; Media-Selection; Native-Speakers;
Poetry-; Reading-Comprehension; Reading-Strategies;
Second-Language Instruction; Writing-Processes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cognitive-Processes; *English-Second
Language; *Reading-Instruction; *Reading-Research

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