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Download full textHodges, Daniel L. – 1984
This guide summarizes the information and techniques presented on an audiotape designed to teach students to use the keyword method to memorize new words. First, introductory comments provide a rationale for the development of the materials and a discussion of their use at Lane Community College. Next, a summary is provided of the key word method,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Strategies, Memorization, Mnemonics
Jenkins, Earl N. – 1986
These lessons are designed to familiarize students with political and legal terminology through memorization and testing. Students are required to take notes on the terms and definitions given in class on 3 by 5 cards to file alphabetically at home. They are also instructed to keep a notebook of the terms to bring to class and memorize. After one…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Law Related Education, Learning Activities, Learning Modules
Laing, Neville – 1985
A variety of games for beginning second language learners are described. The games are designed to develop the student's confidence in communicating in the target language and to help establish his interlanguage. They include: a bilingual guessing game, to be played by a learner and a native speaker; a game to match words, pictures, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Educational Games, Games
Brown, Dorothy F. – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1988
A discussion of vocabulary development for intermediate and advanced students preparing for the Australian certification test for Teaching English as a Foreign Language focuses on nine areas: collocations, clines, clusters, cloze procedures, context, consultation or checking, cards, creativity, and guessing. (seven references) (LB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Laufer, Batia – 1988
A discussion of the ease or difficulty of learning vocabulary words in a second language looks at a variety of issues in second language instruction. Research on factors in vocabulary learning is discussed, focusing on such factors as similarity in form and morphology, deceptive morphological structure, different syntactic patterning in the native…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Hebrew, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSmith, Ben A.; Larkins, A. Guy – Social Studies, 1990
Argues that effective citizenship requires geographic place knowledge. Recommends that primary students develop place vocabulary through memorization and map activities. Analyzes three social studies (grades 1-4) textbooks for attention to place vocabulary. Finds that none offers a systematic approach to place vocabulary acquisition. Introduces…
Descriptors: Cartography, Citizenship Education, Drills (Practice), Geography Instruction
Buckland, David; Short, Mike – 1993
A variety of ideas and strategies for homework assignments that can be stimulating and useful to second language learners are presented. Underlying principles are that homework can: give control; develop confidence; promote creativity; support differentiation by task and outcome; encourage pupil independence; support parent-school communication;…
Descriptors: Assignments, Audiotape Recordings, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Objectives
