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Download full textDiaz, Carol – 1999
A study investigated whether teaching techniques and the use of self-evaluation tended to increase student motivation and second language proficiency. Subjects were 59 high school Honors Spanish 4 students with varying levels of academic ability, motivation, and proficiency, and included both non-native and English-dominant Spanish speakers. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, High Schools, Language Dominance
Bloom, Grace E. – 1979
This essay deals with the use of cartoons and comic strips to teach English as a second language. It illustrates, through past professional literature written on the subject and through specific lessons, the various instructional uses to which cartoons and comic strips lend themselves. Cartoons and comic strips can be applied to the following…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Class Activities, Comics (Publications), Educational Media
PDF pending restorationGeiss, Patricia A.; Mayer, Rose – 1998
This report describes a program for improving listening skills, lack of which interferes with second language acquisition. The targeted population was first- and second-year Spanish students in one middle school and one high school. Intervention over 15 weeks included changes in the classroom environment (desk arrangement, improved lighting,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Sabin, Barbara J. – 1989
This paper explores the conflict between instruction that characterizes Chapter 1 programs (which appear to advocate segmentation, isolated skills instruction, and other curricular incongruencies with the core reading classroom) and instruction that results from whole language philosophy. The paper maintains that the conflict may be due to a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Corona, Cathy; Spangenberger, Sandra; Venet, Iris – 1998
A program developed interventions for improving student writing in the areas of technique and creativity. The targeted population consisted of students in the first through fourth grades in three different school sites, all being similar upper-middle class communities, located in the suburbs of a mid-western city. The problems that some students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationRominski, Carolyn; Vazquez, Magdalena – 1997
A program designed to support English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students' achievement when mainstreamed into eighth grade literature and composition classes is described. The approach was implemented in a suburban school, in which some ESL students lacked the skills to achieve at grade level in regular composition and literature classes. A high…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
