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Language teaching

Index of SIL publications on Language teaching listed by country.

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General works

• Brussow, Myrtle Ruth. 1987. Can the illiteracy handicap be overcome while teaching English to adult pre-beginners?.
• Butts, Kathy. 1981. "Teaching English as a foreign language: a brief annotated bibliography."
• Davis, Patricia M. and Gayle V. Davidson. 1994. "Language is like the human body: teaching concepts through analogy."
• Feigenbaum, Irwin, editor. 1984. English as a second language: Dimensions and directions.  
• Funk, Marilyn A. 1978. "Teaching literal and figurative meanings using food vocabulary."
• Goldin, Mark G. 1987. "The Spanish teacher as dialectologist."
• Jensen, Cheryl. 2000. Review of: About language: tasks for teachers of English, by Scott Thornbury.
• Orwig, Carol J. 1991. "Report of the 1991 Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1960. "Linguistic research as pedagogical support."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1963. "Choices in course design."
• Shipley, William F., Paul L. Garvin, and Joseph E. Grimes. 1965. "La lingüística descriptiva y la enseñanza de idiomas."
• Spaeth, Carole. 2001. Review of: Teaching adult second language learners, by Heather McKay and Abigail Tom.
• Spaeth, Carole. 2001. Review of: Using newspapers in the classroom, by Paul Sanderson.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Englebert, Domche T. 2001. "Problematique de l’enseignement des langues au Cameroun: approches et methodes."

Americas

Peru

• Romero, Ezequiel. 1980. Pepe el travieso: Una contribución para la enseñanza del castellano como segunda lengua, y de su lecto-escritura a niños alfabetizados en el vernáculo.  

United States

• Story, Gillian. 2001. Review of: The Athabaskan languages: perspectives on a native American language family, by Theodore B. Fernald and Paul R. Platero, editors.

Asia

India

• Stegen, Oliver. 2005. "Why teaching the mother tongue is important? (op. ed.)."  
• Trail, Ronald L. 1980. "Some Lamani sentence types: An experiment in pedagogical research."

Indonesia

• Davis, Evelyn C. 1990. Gaya-Gaya belajar.

Pakistan

• Farrell, Timothy. 1990. Basic Balochi: An introductory course.
• Jeffery, Dave. 2003. Review of: Language, education and culture, by Tariq Rahman.  

Philippines

• Dangan, Florida V. 2006. "Contrastive analysis of true and false cognates in Filipino and Cuyonon."  
• McFarland, Curtis D. 2006. "A CAI program for teaching Filipino."  
• McKaughan, Howard P. 1961. Review of: Foundations for English teaching, by Charles C. Fries and A. C. Fries.
• Morey, Virginia. 1961. Cebuano reference materials.
• Pittman, Richard S. 1961. "Teaching English verb auxiliaries."

Viet Nam

• Thomas, David D., Pham Xuân Tín, and others. 1964. Basic Vietnamese course.

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Harris, Stephen G. 1973. "From Kanite to English: a transfer project in Papua New Guinea."