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Chandler, Brennan W.; Bourget, Jessica L.; Reno, Emily A. – Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, 2021
The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice
Morrow, C.; McIntyre, N. – Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2019
"Autism at-a-Glance" is a series of practitioner and family-friendly documents created by the Center on Secondary Education for Students with ASD (CSESA) designed for high school staff members supporting students on the autism spectrum, as well as family members of adolescents with ASD. The purpose of the "Autism at-a-Glance"…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, High School Students, Adolescents
Papay, Twila Yates – 1983
Students can improve their writing skills by studying grammar. In learning to apply a logical system in their analysis of sentence parts, for example, students develop mental discipline. This discipline can be strengthened through the grammatical analysis of their own papers. In these evaluations, which include error and stylistic analyses and a…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Structural Grammar, Traditional Grammar, Transformational Generative Grammar
Crafton, Lisa Plummer – 1989
A process-oriented freshman composition instructor who stresses invention, drafting, and revision can simultaneously integrate a form of grammatical instruction. Various methods and strategies, both from experience and research on grammar from the classical to the contemporary era, suggest such a creative integration. First, the teaching of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Freshman Composition, Grammar, Higher Education
Elson, Nicholas – TESL Talk, 1983
Surveys some of the principal theories and methodologies in second language instruction. (EKN)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar Translation Method
Zepazauer, Frank – 1983
A teacher describes his unexpected success with a technique designed to help special needs ninth graders acquire writing and spelling skills. Assisted by his teaching aide, he used a dictation exercise coupled with immediate feedback and touch. He found that dictating sentences helped students make transitions betweens talking and writing. The…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Feedback, Grammar, Learning Activities
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Lozano, Anthony G. – Hispania, 1993
The use of graphics for clarifying paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships of nominals is described. This approach improves student understanding of reflexive, pseudo-reflexive, and nonreflexive sequences. (Contains seven references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Grammar, Nouns, Pronouns, Second Language Instruction
Noir, Pascal – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A technique used in an advanced French writing class to encourage student self-correction is described. The technique focused on correction of verbs and their tenses; reduction of repetition; appropriate use of "on" and "nous;" and verification of possessive adjectives, negatives, personal pronouns, spelling, and punctuation.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Error Correction, French
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Abrate, Jayne – French Review, 1983
Discusses a method of teaching French past tenses in which students are taught to choose the appropriate tense by learning to view the situation as a native speaker, instead of by trying to memorize and apply very specific grammar rules and all their exceptions. (EKN)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Second Language Instruction
Kara, Seref – Francais dans le Monde, 1993
A questionnaire used to elicit from university students their uses for, attitudes about, and problem areas in French vocabulary learning is presented and discussed. In the questionnaire, a series of brief lexical exercises tests understanding of word similarities and commonalities, lexical functions, registers, antonyms, paraphrasing,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Tests, French, Grammar
Zink, Karl E. – 1982
A faculty member involved with the Higher Education for Learning Disabled Students (HELDS) project describes ways in which an English grammar course was modified to accommodate LD students. The course, designed to compensate for students' inadequacies in grammar, is described in terms of four phases: (1) the introductory period (in which LD…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Grammar, Higher Education
Bradley, Catherine M. – Teacher, 1978
"The Capital Kid" is a cowboy persona used by the author when she teaches capitalization skills. Her teaching style and the games used are described. (SJL)
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Characterization, Educational Games, Elementary Education
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Gailor, Denis – ELT Journal, 1983
Some grammatical points often left unexplained about the meaning, use, and teaching of these verb forms are outlined and discussed, drawing on textbooks and usage literature. Comparisons are made between the several forms, and traditional grammatical approaches are compared and contrasted. (MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
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Cox, Thomas J. – French Review, 1982
The concept of French verb tense as related to the passage of time and the completeness of an action or process is discussed. It is proposed that this concept of inchoativeness be applied in second-language instruction as an aid to students in choosing verb tenses. (MSE)
Descriptors: Decision Making, French, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability
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Gray, Barbara Quint; Trillin, Alice – Journal of Basic Writing, 1977
Offers guidelines for preparing and using audiovisual materials, showing how four rules were applied to the construction of videotape curriculum materials for grammar instruction at the City University of New York. (RL)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Curriculum Development, English Instruction, Grammar
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