This file was created or last modified on Monday, February 08, 1999. This discussion focuses on career instability. The presenter discusses recent developments in assessment theory and practice and examines their impact on the teacher's role. Among the issues discussed are adoption of national language standards and the increased use of qualitative assessment and reporting. Implications for teachers' knowledge, skills, and workload are explored.
Students learn to process grammar in real time and construct rules for key grammar points.
The study presents methodologies for teaching the functions of the active and passive voice in academic writing. The younger the better myth pervades both private and public policies concerning L2 instruction, but support for this perception has garnered mixed results from research. Evidence is presented that adolescents and adults are actually the more effective learners, and the implication of these findings are shared. The presenters describe a contrastive rhetoric study of North American and Brazilian business documents by exploring the influence of Brazilian culture on a Brazilian business discourse community and by examining the textual adjustments that need to be made when the Brazilian business site interacts with its U.S. based head office.