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Dunson, Walter E. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2012
"School Success for Kids With Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties" provides parents and teachers with goals that will meet the needs of students who are struggling with reading, leading them to work through their difficulties and enjoy reading. It includes information, assessments, and techniques that parents, teachers, and school…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties
Ashcraft, Nikki, Ed.; Tran, Anh, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2010
Listening is the most important of the four language skills and is used most often in everyday communication. Teachers need innovative ways to address the particular listening problems emerging in their own contexts. "Teaching Listening: Voices From the Field" shares successful practices employed by teachers at different levels of education around…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Listening Comprehension, Telecommunications, English (Second Language)
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Samuels, S. Jay – Theory into Practice, 1984
Failure to comprehend spoken language usually results from lack of knowledge on the part of the listener or poor communication skills on the part of the speaker. When diagnosing possible causes of poor listening comprehension, the teacher must reflect on these factors and analyze the classroom situation. (DF)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Language Skills
Fairbairn, Kerry – 1982
This report discusses issues having a major impact on "Study Talk," the Queensland component of an Australian language development project. After first outlining the procedures and organizational structures used to set up and conduct "Study Talk," the report briefly describes methods used to evaluate project operations and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Improvement, Language Acquisition
Harste, Jerome C.; And Others – 1984
As a result of a program of research about cognitive processes involved in learning to read and write among 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year old-children, this book attempts to get teacher-researchers to think through the implications of recent insights into literacy and literacy learning. The first section examines instructional assumptions; proposes a new…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Mestre, Jose; Gerace, William – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1986
This study investigated the performance of 14 Hispanic and Anglo ninth graders on several problem-solving tasks, with the focus on the interplay of language-related factors in translating several mathematical statements expressing relationships among variables into mathematical equations. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Equations (Mathematics), Grade 9, Hispanic Americans
Strickland, Dorothy S. – 1983
Language learning is complex and mysterious--because of the many diverse factors that affect its development and because of the many unanswered questions about its nature. Even so, the efforts of countless researchers have provided sufficient knowledge to prompt some recommendations about how adults may nurture the language and literacy…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cognitive Development, English Instruction, Higher Education
Stansell, John C.; Moss, R. Kay – 1983
Language is a complex social event. The rules determining its use vary with (1) the language field--the subject, text, and purpose; (2) the tenor of the social interaction; and (3) the mode or type of communication being used. The impact of the field, tenor, and mode on language use is reflected in a college student's retelling of a story to a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Huang, Li-yi – 1998
This paper describes and compares six models for teaching second languages developed and adopted since 1840 (grammar-translation, direct, structural, situational, audiolingual, and communicative methods), and proposes a seventh, the cognitive-linguistic method, incorporating Noam Chomsky's theory of learning. The model takes both extralinguistic…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
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Conlan, Kathleen – British Educational Research Journal, 1995
Reports on an action research study to determine the possibilities of extending language development opportunities for 26 male 4 to 5-year-old students. Describes teaching methods used, including story telling, questioning, and drama. Explores issues that emerged during the study and evaluates teacher behavior. (CFR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Drama, Early Childhood Education
Ada, Alma Flor – 1987
A discussion of reading instruction for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students looks at elements contributing to development of an effective instructional approach. The elements discussed include the following: the quality of reading materials; role of oral language development; design of an initial decoding process geared to success; need to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Decoding (Reading)
Holdaway, Don – 1979
Intended for teachers, this book on beginning literacy examines questions and solutions concerning literacy theories and practices. Chapter 1, "An Open Approach to Literacy," explores some assumptions about literacy and characteristics of a model for language learning. Chapter 2 presents historical viewpoints and current practices,…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Diagnostic Teaching, Early Experience, Elementary Education