The College Board Advanced Placement exam in computer science will use the language Java starting in fall 2003. The language chosen for this exam is based on the language commonly taught in introductory computer science courses at the university level. This article reviews the purpose of an introductory course and the various suggestions for the curriculum of introductory courses published by t...

English is the major foreign language taught at schools in Taiwan (Crawford, 2003; Su, 2000). It is also the most commonly studied foreign language and the language used for wider communication in business and scholarly exchange. It had been traditionally taught beginning at Year 7 until 2001 when the Nine-year Integrated Curriculum was implemented and English was introduced to the Grade 5 curr...

47 1092-5171/03/3001-0047 ABSTRACT: Some current educational reforms (U.S. Department of Education, 2002) focus on preparing students for mandated testing. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997) requires education agencies to provide students with disabilities with the opportunity to participate in testing. Speech-language pathologists face the challenge of helping student...

abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...

Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus have been applied to identify and extract medical concepts from a broad range of biomedical text. "Understanding" medical curriculum content represents a difficult challenge for developers. Curricular documents come in many formats: full-text transcriptions; detailed, textual outlines; extr...

This article discusses four issues central to instructors’ conceptualisations of curricula for ESL writing instruction, citing findings from interviews with 48 highly skilled instructors of ESL writing in settlement and university programs in countries where English is the dominant language (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) or where English is an international language (Hong Kong, Japan, and Tha...

The Australian Language Levels (ALL) Project offers a coherent model for elementary and secondary language curriculum design. Book 4 of the four-volume series discusser espects of curriculum change and inservice teacher education, emphasizing the fact that curriculum and staff development are ongoing processes. A section on implementing curriculum change looks at trends and directions in curric...