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Brown, Stephanie L. – 1991
A practicum focused on improving listening skills in four- to five-year-old children. The practicum targeted the following specific listening skills for improvement: (1) discriminating English phonemes; (2) recognizing words heard in a story; (3) repeating a short story; and (4) following verbal instructions. Teaching strategies which the…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening Habits, Listening Skills, Parent Participation
Trushin, Barbara Y. – 1984
In a primary school in Dade County, Florida, disadvantaged kindergarten children were entering first grade without the receptive language and listening skills necessary to succeed academically. A practicum attempted to remedy this problem by stimulating kindergarten children's receptive language skills in vocabulary and listening comprehension.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, Intervention
Download full textGunter, Dorothy L. – 1995
A practicum was designed to improve the oral/aural vocabulary which would eventually improve the reading vocabulary of second language learners. The practicum, implemented in a second grade by a media specialist who counted on the cooperation of the classroom teacher, consisted of a read-aloud program in which the students read daily from a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills, Oral Reading
Emery, Gretchen B. – 1991
A screening instrument developed for this study measured the listening skills of 22 children in a kindergarten class. Children were found to be weak in four areas of listening: (1) auditory discrimination; (2) auditory perception; (3) following oral directions; and (4) listening comprehension. After these measures were administered, students…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Kindergarten Children
Fischer, Debra L. – 1990
A practicum was conducted to improve the listening skills of a first grade class in a public elementary school in a mostly Hispanic residential community. A listening program was developed and implemented to increase listening skills. Storytelling was the main strategy used, and it was implemented daily. Other listening activities were also…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Childrens Literature, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
Johnson, Tanya – 1987
A listening laboratory was developed at Evergreen Valley College (EVC) in accordance with procedures used at the college's individualized instruction laboratory. Steps taken in developing the laboratory included: (1) the director of the Learning Center Instructional Laboratory was interviewed to determine the procedure for establishing the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Objectives, Learning Laboratories
Abelleira, Patsy G. – 1987
Conducted at a Chapter 1 school serving mainly Hispanic and Black youth, this practicum developed a teacher-directed listening skills program for first grade students. The project goals were to provide auditory training and to increase proficiency in decoding skills. The listening skills program consisted of five components. The physiology of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Aural Learning, Blacks
Sprayberry, Roslyn R. – 1993
An experimental study investigated the effectiveness of multimedia instruction in improving listening comprehension of high school students studying second-year Spanish. Specific comprehension difficulties were found in recognizing linguistic and cultural implications, making guesses based on key words and phrases, and understanding and responding…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, High School Students
Markovitch, Martha L. – 1982
A practicum study designed to address the problem of inadequate language development skills in first-grade children was conducted. Specifically, efforts were directed toward developing and implementing a specialized instructional program to remediate students' deficiencies in listening comprehension, basic concept skills, classification skills,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classification, Classroom Research, Concept Formation
Fernandez, Geraldine – 1992
A study investigated the effectiveness of enrichment activities in developing the language proficiency, comprehension, and critical thinking skills of limited-English-proficient (LEP) children. Subjects were 19 LEP students (out of an original group of 21) in kindergarten through grade 5, who participated in enrichment activities including…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Computer Oriented Programs, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking
