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Peer reviewedIrizarry, Julia – College ESL, 1994
An English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) professor writes about her own experiences with college ESL students, focusing on the issue of content in study labs and ESL reading instruction at Baruch College. Aspects of the curriculum that promote language development, including active interaction with text, are described. (10 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Peer reviewedColey, Joan D. – Reading World, 1983
Describes structured and open-ended evaluation techniques that permit students in a reading center to rate their own reading performance. (FL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Laboratories
Peer reviewedCleland, Craig J. – Reading World, 1983
Presents six ways that instructors in reading clinics can emphasize student strengths, including (1) planning for special surprises, (2) building time off into the schedule, (3) finishing the clinic on a positive note, and (4) reinforcing the success of the clinic. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Motivation Techniques
Webster, Lois P.; Huffman, Ruth E. – 1983
Learning centers are student centered. That is, instructional goals are matched to learner needs and desires and student learning is self-paced. Teachers coordinate the learning process while students explore and experiment with learning materials. The learning center has several advantages over the traditional classroom: (1) it is success…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Elementary Education
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1979
The articles in this publication cover a variety of topics related to college reading instruction. The topics of the twenty-two papers include the following: (1) innovation in audio-visual vocabulary programs, (2) a survey of learning centers/laboratories in Hawaii, (3) a summer program for high risk readers, (4) oral reading tests and black…
Descriptors: Computers, Conference Papers, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1981
Readers' contributions include ways to make inservice meetings interesting, a checklist for designing and evaluating learning centers, ways to help low ability readers use public libraries by taping materials, how to encourage college students to attend state council conferences, and comments on misleading findings from the Nelson-Denny Reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Books, Cloze Procedure, Higher Education
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. Arkansas Commission on Microcomputer Instruction. – 1984
This document provides guidelines for the preparation of school district plans for implementation of the microcomputer instructional programs recommended for Arkansas schools. Introductory materials include suggestions for school administration leadership activities in a microcomputer utilization plan, a message to the superintendent, and six…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Education
Tompkins, John F. – 1983
Over 600 students were served by the Reading/Mathematics Lab Program of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. Students enrolled in the mathematics lab at all grade levels attained an increase in mean percentile rank from pre- to post-testing as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills administered in October 1982 and again…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Block Grants, Budgets
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1980
The articles in this collection focus on new sources of energy for learning at the college level. The topics of the 25 articles include the following: (1) the emerging role of the learning specialist in higher education, (2) adult learning disabilities, (3) vocabulary development for students of English as a second language, (4) the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Programs, Dialects
Download full textBoone, Randall, Ed.; Higgins, Kyle, Ed. – 1992
Educational multimedia and hypermedia systems, which integrate computer-generated text and graphics with full-motion video and stereo sound, dominate much discussion about the future of computer use in education. This guide brings together the thoughts, ideas, and experience of elementary school students, classroom teachers, administrators,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Authoring Aids (Programing), Basal Reading, Classroom Techniques
