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Field Evaluation of Tile Drain Filters in a Humid Region Soil

They had been run through a mechanical sheller and ranged in length from 1 to 4
- inches. At the time of application, the tile line was covered to a depth of about 6
inches. E. Wheat Straw: Straw from the previous season's crop was used to fill ...

Academic Writing in a Second Language

Essays on Research and Pedagogy

Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

The boundaries of the field of contrastive rhetoric have been gradually increasing
to include, among others, cross-language studies of word recognition, text
structure, oral/aural differences, testing, instruction, and a myriad of other factors
in ...

Second Language Practice

Classroom Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence

Language teachers present theories for sharpening students' communication skills in a second language, and describe examples of their application in actual classrooms. They explain strategies for beginning listening comprehension; interaction skills with idiomatic expressions, integrating social skills, and group work at intermediate levels; and refining literacy skills for advanced students. Provides a springboard of ideas and approaches for teachers and administrators to tailor to their specific needs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Over the past 25 years, many theorists specialising in second language
acquisition have promoted the communicative approach. Their arguments have
been very convincing, but many school boards and teachers remain unsure as to
how to ...

The Effects of Standardized Testing

When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to investigate the Pygmalion effect, it is inconceivable that a study of the effects of standardized testing, conceived in the 1960s and planned and executed in the 1970s, would not have been influenced by thinking about teachers' expectations and the influence of test information on the formation of those expectations. While our study did pay special attention to teacher expectations, its scope was much wider. It was planned and carried out in a much broader framework, one in which we set out to examine the impact of a standardized testing program, not just on teachers, but also on school practices, students, and students' parents.

Drumcondra Attainment Tests, Level I, Form A: Mathematics and English.
Administration and technical manual. Dublin: Educational Research Centre, St
Patrick's College. —. 1978b. Drumcondra Attainment Tests, Level II, Form A:
Mathematics ...

The Testing Trap

How State Writing Assessments Control Learning

Do statewide assessments really do what they are supposed to do? Through interviews with over three hundred teachers and administrators, Hillocks examines whether state writing tests in Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, New York, and Texas actually improve students' ability to express their thinking in writing. Ultimately, Hillocks argues that the majority of existing tests actually have a harmful effect on the way students are taught to write. In addition to providing analyses of assessments that do not encourage good writing, The Testing Trap contrasts them to those that do. Concluding with practical procedures for examining and evaluating writing assessments, this book is a provocative and essential read for administrators, teachers, policymakers, parents, and all who care about the education of our children.

George Hillocks, Jr., received his B.A. in English from the College of Wooster, a
Diploma in English Studies from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and his
M.A. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He taught secondary ...

The Effects of a Program of Modérn Educational Dance on the Perceptional-motor Skills and Psycholinguistic Attributes of Trainable Mentally Retarded Children

Lectures on the English Language

No living language yet possesses a dictionary so complete as to give all the
words in use at any one period, still less all ... own and other languages, but there
is reason to think that the vocabulary of English is among the most extensive now
 ...

A Chinese and English Vocabulary in the Pekinese Dialect

Most of the Numeratives or Classifiers in common ue will be found under the
character 111 —-, and although there is in general but one example of each, (
except in cases where there is a striking dissimilarity in the use of them), this has
been ...

Developing Academic Literacy

Selected papers presented at the conference held by BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes) at the University of Southampton in the spring of 2003.

... 77-81 literature review research 104 mathematical literacy research 135— 8t
revision processes research 101-3 vocabulary use ... 22-3, 26, 28 and
discontinuity 27 and literacy practices 33-4 organisation of 60-1 positioning see
positioning (in discourse) and skills ... 128, 144, 161 Dudley-Evans T 45 EAP
practitioners see lecturers EAP toolkit (English for Academic Purposes toolkit)
174 editing, ethical ...