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Papers by Stephen Gaies
System, 1999
English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Weste... more English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Western-based methodologies such as Communicative Language Learning (CLL, Communicative Language Teaching, CLT in this paper) and its further development Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching (TBLLT, Ellis, 2003), feature principles which can conflict with some of the fundamental values of Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) education and hinder their adoption in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Vietnam. This article introduces a sociocultural, ethnographic perspective on EFL in East Asia which contextualizes language teaching in its broader educational and cultural environment. Teacher-centeredness, book and writing focuses, memorization strategies within a grammar-translation approach are in contradiction with modern language teaching methodologies' focuses on learner-centeredness and teachers' facilitating roles, student participation and interactions, communication competence and learner autonomy. The text advocates for a mean between Western and Eastern learning cultures through a context-based, culturally-sensitive approach and introduces classroom's strategies for the implementation of CLL and TBLLT in China and East Asia.
North American Review, 2017
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, 2018
Interview with Beatriz Gallardo Part of the journal section "Forum: (Re)presenting (Im)migration"... more Interview with Beatriz Gallardo Part of the journal section "Forum: (Re)presenting (Im)migration" Stephen J. Gaies, Translated by Polly Alfano and Jennifer Cooley "Interview with Beatriz Gallardo" Note to the Reader: Stephen Gaies's interview with Beatriz Gallardo begins after the sixth paragraph. Questions by Gaies have been bolded to distinguish them from Gallardo's answers, which have been kept in normal type print.
The Modern Language Journal, 1994
Unit 1 Introductory Unit Unit 2 Business Software Unit 3 Sales Unit 4 Marketing Unit 5 Computer S... more Unit 1 Introductory Unit Unit 2 Business Software Unit 3 Sales Unit 4 Marketing Unit 5 Computer Systems Unit 6 Human Resources Unit 7 Business Travel Unit 8 Information Technology Unit 9 Economics Unit 10 Company Finances Unit 11 Financial Planning Unit 12 Legal Contracts Answer Key
The thousand-year-old culture, along with the Yiddish language, ceased to exist as the result of ... more The thousand-year-old culture, along with the Yiddish language, ceased to exist as the result of the extermination of millions of Jews in ghettoes and death camps. The remains of what had been a unique civilization based on communal existencethe wellspring of Jewish creativity were totally annihilated with the liquidation of the ghettoes. Even though some Jews survived almost everywhere, the world after was a world without Jewish communities and their rich cultures, a world permeated with piercing pain, shock, trauma, a sense of irrecoverable loss, and the unspeakable awe at human bestiality unleashed by Hitler's totalitarian regime. The selection of papers in this volume address many issues connected with the world that was there before and with the world after. There are papers on literary insights into prewar Jewish life and the shtetl, Jewish cultural autonomy, the musical legacy of Yiddish culture, as well as images of women before, during, and after the Holocaust, and artistic responses to the Holocaust. Other articles explore, for example, the lost world of harmony and color in prewar Poland, and the relationship of post-memory and the children of Holocaust survivors. The volume also includes a discussion on the semantic changes in the term anti-Semitism, an overview of Holocaust education scholarship and many more. We hope that the insightful and illuminating papers in this volume
The Modern Language Journal, 1994
The new second edition of the Collins COBUILD English Usage has been specially designed for upper... more The new second edition of the Collins COBUILD English Usage has been specially designed for upper-intermediate and advanced students and teachers of English. Its comprehensive coverage of different areas of the English language helps learners to use the language naturally and effectively. Collins COBUILD English Usage has been thoroughly revised and updated to make it easier to use, and to include hundreds of new, updated examples, taken directly from the Bank of English corpus. The new edition offers mproved coverage of American English, numerous warning notes highlighting particular problems and graded lists of words to help learners build their active vocabulary. Presented in a clear, user-friendly style, and with logically organized Usage, Grammar and Topics sections, the Collins COBUILD English Usage gives you three books in one and is the indispensable reference tool for learning English today.
TESOL Quarterly (Print), 1981
TESOL Quarterly, 1980
... Language Learning (Special Issue No. 4: Papers in Second Language Acquisition), 15-28. Scott,... more ... Language Learning (Special Issue No. 4: Papers in Second Language Acquisition), 15-28. Scott, M., and GR Tucker. 1974. Error analysis and English-language strategies of Arab students. Language Learning 24:69-97. Steyaert, Marcia. 1977. ...
System, 1999
English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Weste... more English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Western-based methodologies such as Communicative Language Learning (CLL, Communicative Language Teaching, CLT in this paper) and its further development Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching (TBLLT, Ellis, 2003), feature principles which can conflict with some of the fundamental values of Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) education and hinder their adoption in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Vietnam. This article introduces a sociocultural, ethnographic perspective on EFL in East Asia which contextualizes language teaching in its broader educational and cultural environment. Teacher-centeredness, book and writing focuses, memorization strategies within a grammar-translation approach are in contradiction with modern language teaching methodologies' focuses on learner-centeredness and teachers' facilitating roles, student participation and interactions, communication competence and learner autonomy. The text advocates for a mean between Western and Eastern learning cultures through a context-based, culturally-sensitive approach and introduces classroom's strategies for the implementation of CLL and TBLLT in China and East Asia.
Since 1965, Amish children in Buchanan County, Iowa have been exempted from State requirements to... more Since 1965, Amish children in Buchanan County, Iowa have been exempted from State requirements to attend centralized schools and, instead, are taught in small rural schools with a. tladitional curriculum through grade 8. More recent federal laws mandate provision of special services to limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in this group. Some schools have refused English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) services, which currently incl'ide diagnostic testing, recommendations on materials adaptation and purchase, inservice teacher workshops, and consultation on planning for the future. Administrator attitudes have-been positive to --neutral. Teachers have generally been receptive to workshops 'sad new ideas. Parents have expressed guarded approval, preferring minimal change. The new program design resembles sheltered English, with subjects taught in English. However, the goals-of sheltered English and of the Amish differ. Sheltered En'lish programs are intended to mainstream ...
This article proposes that the directions that English language teaching will take in the 1990s c... more This article proposes that the directions that English language teaching will take in the 1990s can be discerned from trends that are now firmly in place. The growth of English language teaching as an international enterprise and the efforts that have been made to professionalize our work offer important lessons for the next decade. Progress in language teaching results from the search for what is universal about classroom language teaching and learning, and from an appreciation of the distinctive features of particular teaching and learning set tings. Like cultural anthropologists, we need to adopt an ethnographic view of classroom teaching and learning. Beyond that, we must encourage the trend in our field to redefine the nature of authority and expertise and to encourage those who work in a particular setting to determine what they wish to value in English language teaching methodology, materials, and goals. 1ci60)1n. *.'j:~~~WiJ~1990 ~j::W'?t.: ~0)~;:i'd:.75;: C ~~~...
The matched-guise technique uses recorded voices speaking first in one dialect or language, then ... more The matched-guise technique uses recorded voices speaking first in one dialect or language, then in another. Listeners do not know that the speech samples are from the same person, but judge the two guises of the same speaker as two separate speakers. The technique has been used to investigate a variety of sociolinguistic, social-psychological, and educational issues: attitudes of foreign language learners toward target language speakers and community; linguistic bases of teacher prejudice; attitudes toward different language varieties and codes; attitudes toward the speech of nonnatives or language learners; the phenomena of convergence and divergence; and the effect of speaker and hearer variables on comprehension, recall, or evaluation. Two recent applications of the matched-guise technique in Japan investigated: (1) female Japanese high school students' attitudes toward Englishor Japanese-speakers introduced as having lived in the United States or not thus introduced; and (2...
Discussion of the evaluation of training programs for teachers of English as a Second Language co... more Discussion of the evaluation of training programs for teachers of English as a Second Language consists of: (1) characterization of general approaches; (2) review of reasons for interest in program evaluation; and (3) description of a University of Northern Iowa (UNI) evaluation project that uses a portfolio approach extending 3 years beyond program completion. At UNI, assessment of teacher trainees occurs at four points in the trainee's career: at declaration of undergraduate ESL major; at approximately the second semester of the junior year; during the last undergraduate semester; and 1-3 years after graduation. The principal method used is evaluation of a collection of trainee products that individually and collectively portray trainee attainment. Guidance in portfolio construction is provided. Experience with this method of student outcomes assessment suggests these educational and administrative advantages: it uses student knowledge base, skills, values, and attitudes as a ...
Landes (1975) reviewed research studying adult-child linguistic interactions. Evidence that the l... more Landes (1975) reviewed research studying adult-child linguistic interactions. Evidence that the language which adults use in addressing young children is different from that used in addressing adults and that parent-child interaction patterns change with the increasing age and language skills of the child has important implications for the study of first language acquisition. The present study examined the syntactic dimensions of the classroom language of eight teachers of adult ESL classes. The classroom language samples were compared with samples of the same subjects' speech with each other. Six measures of syntactic complexity were used. Results indicate that in the same way that adults adjust their normal speech when addressing young children, the subjects under study are sensitive and responsive to the perceived linguistic abilities of their students. Many of the strategies and devices used by adults in dealing with children in language interactions are also used for commun...
TESOL Quarterly, 1977
In its original form, the "noise" test is a dictation of fifty discrete English sentenc... more In its original form, the "noise" test is a dictation of fifty discrete English sentences, varying in syntactic complexity, recorded on tape with accom-panying background white noise. In terms of both its theoretical rationale and its statistical reliability, the noise test has generally ...
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System, 1999
English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Weste... more English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Western-based methodologies such as Communicative Language Learning (CLL, Communicative Language Teaching, CLT in this paper) and its further development Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching (TBLLT, Ellis, 2003), feature principles which can conflict with some of the fundamental values of Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) education and hinder their adoption in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Vietnam. This article introduces a sociocultural, ethnographic perspective on EFL in East Asia which contextualizes language teaching in its broader educational and cultural environment. Teacher-centeredness, book and writing focuses, memorization strategies within a grammar-translation approach are in contradiction with modern language teaching methodologies' focuses on learner-centeredness and teachers' facilitating roles, student participation and interactions, communication competence and learner autonomy. The text advocates for a mean between Western and Eastern learning cultures through a context-based, culturally-sensitive approach and introduces classroom's strategies for the implementation of CLL and TBLLT in China and East Asia.
North American Review, 2017
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, 2018
Interview with Beatriz Gallardo Part of the journal section "Forum: (Re)presenting (Im)migration"... more Interview with Beatriz Gallardo Part of the journal section "Forum: (Re)presenting (Im)migration" Stephen J. Gaies, Translated by Polly Alfano and Jennifer Cooley "Interview with Beatriz Gallardo" Note to the Reader: Stephen Gaies's interview with Beatriz Gallardo begins after the sixth paragraph. Questions by Gaies have been bolded to distinguish them from Gallardo's answers, which have been kept in normal type print.
The Modern Language Journal, 1994
Unit 1 Introductory Unit Unit 2 Business Software Unit 3 Sales Unit 4 Marketing Unit 5 Computer S... more Unit 1 Introductory Unit Unit 2 Business Software Unit 3 Sales Unit 4 Marketing Unit 5 Computer Systems Unit 6 Human Resources Unit 7 Business Travel Unit 8 Information Technology Unit 9 Economics Unit 10 Company Finances Unit 11 Financial Planning Unit 12 Legal Contracts Answer Key
The thousand-year-old culture, along with the Yiddish language, ceased to exist as the result of ... more The thousand-year-old culture, along with the Yiddish language, ceased to exist as the result of the extermination of millions of Jews in ghettoes and death camps. The remains of what had been a unique civilization based on communal existencethe wellspring of Jewish creativity were totally annihilated with the liquidation of the ghettoes. Even though some Jews survived almost everywhere, the world after was a world without Jewish communities and their rich cultures, a world permeated with piercing pain, shock, trauma, a sense of irrecoverable loss, and the unspeakable awe at human bestiality unleashed by Hitler's totalitarian regime. The selection of papers in this volume address many issues connected with the world that was there before and with the world after. There are papers on literary insights into prewar Jewish life and the shtetl, Jewish cultural autonomy, the musical legacy of Yiddish culture, as well as images of women before, during, and after the Holocaust, and artistic responses to the Holocaust. Other articles explore, for example, the lost world of harmony and color in prewar Poland, and the relationship of post-memory and the children of Holocaust survivors. The volume also includes a discussion on the semantic changes in the term anti-Semitism, an overview of Holocaust education scholarship and many more. We hope that the insightful and illuminating papers in this volume
The Modern Language Journal, 1994
The new second edition of the Collins COBUILD English Usage has been specially designed for upper... more The new second edition of the Collins COBUILD English Usage has been specially designed for upper-intermediate and advanced students and teachers of English. Its comprehensive coverage of different areas of the English language helps learners to use the language naturally and effectively. Collins COBUILD English Usage has been thoroughly revised and updated to make it easier to use, and to include hundreds of new, updated examples, taken directly from the Bank of English corpus. The new edition offers mproved coverage of American English, numerous warning notes highlighting particular problems and graded lists of words to help learners build their active vocabulary. Presented in a clear, user-friendly style, and with logically organized Usage, Grammar and Topics sections, the Collins COBUILD English Usage gives you three books in one and is the indispensable reference tool for learning English today.
TESOL Quarterly (Print), 1981
TESOL Quarterly, 1980
... Language Learning (Special Issue No. 4: Papers in Second Language Acquisition), 15-28. Scott,... more ... Language Learning (Special Issue No. 4: Papers in Second Language Acquisition), 15-28. Scott, M., and GR Tucker. 1974. Error analysis and English-language strategies of Arab students. Language Learning 24:69-97. Steyaert, Marcia. 1977. ...
System, 1999
English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Weste... more English as Foreign Language (EFL) in East Asia involves major sociocultural issues. Modern, Western-based methodologies such as Communicative Language Learning (CLL, Communicative Language Teaching, CLT in this paper) and its further development Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching (TBLLT, Ellis, 2003), feature principles which can conflict with some of the fundamental values of Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) education and hinder their adoption in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Vietnam. This article introduces a sociocultural, ethnographic perspective on EFL in East Asia which contextualizes language teaching in its broader educational and cultural environment. Teacher-centeredness, book and writing focuses, memorization strategies within a grammar-translation approach are in contradiction with modern language teaching methodologies' focuses on learner-centeredness and teachers' facilitating roles, student participation and interactions, communication competence and learner autonomy. The text advocates for a mean between Western and Eastern learning cultures through a context-based, culturally-sensitive approach and introduces classroom's strategies for the implementation of CLL and TBLLT in China and East Asia.
Since 1965, Amish children in Buchanan County, Iowa have been exempted from State requirements to... more Since 1965, Amish children in Buchanan County, Iowa have been exempted from State requirements to attend centralized schools and, instead, are taught in small rural schools with a. tladitional curriculum through grade 8. More recent federal laws mandate provision of special services to limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in this group. Some schools have refused English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) services, which currently incl'ide diagnostic testing, recommendations on materials adaptation and purchase, inservice teacher workshops, and consultation on planning for the future. Administrator attitudes have-been positive to --neutral. Teachers have generally been receptive to workshops 'sad new ideas. Parents have expressed guarded approval, preferring minimal change. The new program design resembles sheltered English, with subjects taught in English. However, the goals-of sheltered English and of the Amish differ. Sheltered En'lish programs are intended to mainstream ...
This article proposes that the directions that English language teaching will take in the 1990s c... more This article proposes that the directions that English language teaching will take in the 1990s can be discerned from trends that are now firmly in place. The growth of English language teaching as an international enterprise and the efforts that have been made to professionalize our work offer important lessons for the next decade. Progress in language teaching results from the search for what is universal about classroom language teaching and learning, and from an appreciation of the distinctive features of particular teaching and learning set tings. Like cultural anthropologists, we need to adopt an ethnographic view of classroom teaching and learning. Beyond that, we must encourage the trend in our field to redefine the nature of authority and expertise and to encourage those who work in a particular setting to determine what they wish to value in English language teaching methodology, materials, and goals. 1ci60)1n. *.'j:~~~WiJ~1990 ~j::W'?t.: ~0)~;:i'd:.75;: C ~~~...
The matched-guise technique uses recorded voices speaking first in one dialect or language, then ... more The matched-guise technique uses recorded voices speaking first in one dialect or language, then in another. Listeners do not know that the speech samples are from the same person, but judge the two guises of the same speaker as two separate speakers. The technique has been used to investigate a variety of sociolinguistic, social-psychological, and educational issues: attitudes of foreign language learners toward target language speakers and community; linguistic bases of teacher prejudice; attitudes toward different language varieties and codes; attitudes toward the speech of nonnatives or language learners; the phenomena of convergence and divergence; and the effect of speaker and hearer variables on comprehension, recall, or evaluation. Two recent applications of the matched-guise technique in Japan investigated: (1) female Japanese high school students' attitudes toward Englishor Japanese-speakers introduced as having lived in the United States or not thus introduced; and (2...
Discussion of the evaluation of training programs for teachers of English as a Second Language co... more Discussion of the evaluation of training programs for teachers of English as a Second Language consists of: (1) characterization of general approaches; (2) review of reasons for interest in program evaluation; and (3) description of a University of Northern Iowa (UNI) evaluation project that uses a portfolio approach extending 3 years beyond program completion. At UNI, assessment of teacher trainees occurs at four points in the trainee's career: at declaration of undergraduate ESL major; at approximately the second semester of the junior year; during the last undergraduate semester; and 1-3 years after graduation. The principal method used is evaluation of a collection of trainee products that individually and collectively portray trainee attainment. Guidance in portfolio construction is provided. Experience with this method of student outcomes assessment suggests these educational and administrative advantages: it uses student knowledge base, skills, values, and attitudes as a ...
Landes (1975) reviewed research studying adult-child linguistic interactions. Evidence that the l... more Landes (1975) reviewed research studying adult-child linguistic interactions. Evidence that the language which adults use in addressing young children is different from that used in addressing adults and that parent-child interaction patterns change with the increasing age and language skills of the child has important implications for the study of first language acquisition. The present study examined the syntactic dimensions of the classroom language of eight teachers of adult ESL classes. The classroom language samples were compared with samples of the same subjects' speech with each other. Six measures of syntactic complexity were used. Results indicate that in the same way that adults adjust their normal speech when addressing young children, the subjects under study are sensitive and responsive to the perceived linguistic abilities of their students. Many of the strategies and devices used by adults in dealing with children in language interactions are also used for commun...
TESOL Quarterly, 1977
In its original form, the "noise" test is a dictation of fifty discrete English sentenc... more In its original form, the "noise" test is a dictation of fifty discrete English sentences, varying in syntactic complexity, recorded on tape with accom-panying background white noise. In terms of both its theoretical rationale and its statistical reliability, the noise test has generally ...
Reproductions'oupplied by, EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.