This book highlights the roles of several individual difference (ID) variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. It presents the results of a large-scale, mixed-methods investigation which was conducted with secondary school pupils and their teachers in Hungary. The…

This article seeks to provide researchers and practitioners in laboratory education, particularly those involved in the curriculum design and implementation of teaching laboratories at university level, with a conceptual framework and a working model for an integrated assessment of learning domains, by attending to a more holistic approach to…

Considers the powerful influence of the motivational factors of attitude, need, stimulation, affect, competence, and reinforcement on adult behavior and learning. Their integration into the Time Continuum Model of Motivation to guide instructor selection and implementation of motivational strategies is also discussed. (MBR)

If the main cause of many students' disinclination to learn is attitude, it follows that the most important educational reform is the restoration of attitudes favorable to learning. This book and its companion workbook are intended to assist teachers in that goal. It helps teachers understand and appraise the negative attitudes that are all too…

Focusing on the brain's natural functions, this article discusses specific teacher characteristics, teaching methods, and peripheral stimuli helping to activate appropriate learning behavior. Also identifies particular events and teacher behaviors that block learning and frustrate the brain's efforts to harmonize conflicts and admit new…

This article states that affective learning is important to prevent boredom and stimulate language use. Use of affective learning activities in the language classroom is outlined and a teaching technique, the open-ended sentence is described as a method that elicits responses charged with personal opinions, feelings and humor. (CHK)

The objectives of this pamphlet are to: (1) introduce the processes of music learning to non-musician educators; (2) illustrate how music learning serves as a model for all learning; (3) enable educators to gain a new perspective of the demands and processes needed to develop musical talent; and (4) help non-musician administrators understand that…

Affective learning activities (ALA) are essential in foreign language learning. Although the cognitive domain is essential for learning to take place, lesson content is more interesting when it springs from the affective domain of the learner. Specific strategy models to facilitate the release of the learner's affective domain are suggested. (CLK)

Describes the factors which led to the development of the three year Human Sciences Program designed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) staff for the middle grades. Also presents the major learning and instructional characteristics of the Human Sciences modules. (HM)

The ENCOUNTER program features a nine-week guidance program to help gifted adolescents through group guidance activities and special affective domain units incorporated into the curriculum. A sample weekly plan on self exploration and identity is outlined. (CL)

A program designed to combine academic instruction with the emotions was implemented in a resource room for elementary learning and/or behavior problem children. Activities focused on the senses and included contributing to a class poem and writing individual poems about emotions. (CL)

Arranged in two sections, this guide provides materials for adapting the "Learning About Social Behavior" program for learning disabled elementary school students. Section 1 contains the following specialized test instruments: the School Observation Scale, Cognition of Behavioral Relations, Cognition of Behavioral Systems, Cognition of…

A unit plan for providing support to nondisabled siblings of disabled children features such activities as guest speakers, lectures, discussion groups, and role playing. The program helps siblings to understand the disabilities and develop positive feelings toward their disabled sibling. (CB)

Designed for teaching students in regular and special education classes, the guide provides an instructional approach (as opposed to a counseling approach) to teaching social and behavioral skills. This approach, based on the premise that behavioral skills can be developed through instruction, drills, and applied practice, employs concepts from…

Discussed are methods for incorporating population/environment education into curricula. The problem-solving approach emphasizes demographic concepts and values. Suggestions are listed for activities, discussion topics, and audiovisual aids. Recommendations are given for student attitudinal pre/post test questions to assess behavioral objectives…