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Dowst, Kenneth – Freshman English News, 1983
Surveys modern language and cognitive theories and their implications for the teaching of undergraduate composition. (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement

Stevens, Kathleen C. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Emphasizes that, in order to comprehend, a reader must chunk the many words of a sentence into meaningful groups of words. Offers suggestions for developing "thought units" in the upper grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Lauer, Rachel M. – 1986
This article reflects one session of a course in thinking and communicating for Pace University (New York) faculty. The purpose of the course was to heighten awareness that language can seriously misrepresent events which it describes, thus affecting students' ability to perceive, evaluate, and make day-to-day decisions. Beginning with a concrete…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Bereiter, Carl; Scardamalia, Marlene – 1987
Aimed both at readers interested in cognition and/or writing and at instructional psychologists, this book explores the notion that various writing strategies involve different kinds of thinking, which ultimately affect the written product. The first part presents concepts central to the writing process, including two models of this process, an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Psychological Patterns
White, Sandra; Witte, Pauline – 1979
Because teachers are asking for specific suggestions to help students apply comprehension skills and read content material, a mechanism that assists students in acquiring and applying specific comprehension skills as they read content texts is being investigated. The mechanism is called marginal gloss because learning activities are placed in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Language Processing
McCrady, William – 1982
In order to foster awareness of the auditory characteristics of learning disabled students and the essential skills involved in effective listening, this paper suggests teaching strategies to improve listening skills that include both individual and whole class activities specifically geared to learning disabled students. The first section of the…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Landolfi, Liliana – 1984
An analysis of the skills involved in listening comprehension and techniques for developing them in students looks first at elements of the general process of interpretation, showing the essential importance of the interpretative functions as contrasted with simple comprehension of sounds and decoding of meaning. The first section looks at…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Interpretive Skills
Wilson, Robert D. – 1979
A schema developed for the teaching of reading involves five factors: learning, language, clues, mediums of communication, and adaptive processes. Learning involves four tasks, taught in the following sequence: comprehension, comparison of semantic shapes, composition of the whole into parts, and concentration. There are four general language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cues, Elementary Education
Rosberg, Merilee – 1995
This report describes a project that used children's literature to introduce 6- and 7-year-old children (n=25) in the United States to other languages to arouse their interest in finding out more about language. Most of the children were monolingual and spoke English; two boys spoke some Spanish. The study was conducted to see if young children's…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences
Frager, Alan M.; Thompson, Loren – 1984
When readers encounter the dissonance of conflicting ideas and are motivated by the psychological discomfort to resolve the dissonance, the effort to alleviate this discomfort may well result in the activation of those cognitive processes termed critical reading and thinking. With this in mind, one approach to teaching critical reading treats…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Peters, William H. – 1985
This paper advocates an integrated study of English rather than the traditional approach of studying language, literature, and composition. Its focus is not on designing an integrated curriculum, but on using this approach to develop reasoning skills for secondary students. One integrated curriculum program for the development of reasoning skills…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Buckley, Marilyn Hanf; Boyle, Owen – 1981
For use by teachers in helping students become better writers, this booklet describes and illustrates cognitive mapping, a prewriting technique that helps students combine their verbal and visual skills in order to produce ideas and to plan stories, plays, reports, or essays. The first section of the booklet discusses the interrelations between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing
Hayes, David A.; Alvermann, Donna E. – Forum for Reading, 1984
A cyclical plan for studying that takes into account information processing strategies and their effective management by students consists of (1) specifying study purposes, (2) previewing the materials, (3) proceeding through the task incrementally, and (4) connecting the content to be learned to other knowledge about the material studied. Setting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intentional Learning
Geiger, William A., Jr. – 1983
Three universes of discourse are at work when writers create or use a metaphor: the analogical or metaphorical universe from which they borrow words, things, and relationships (sometimes called the "vehicle"); the contextual universe in which the analogy is being used (sometimes called the "topic"); and the metauniverse, or the comprehensive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Educational Theories
Morino, Hiroaki – 1998
Two key parallels exist between reading and writing, each with profound implications for the teaching of these skills, and which can be adapted for the situation in Japanese high schools, where reading and writing classes are separate. First, on a theoretical level, writing and reading are cognitively similar in that they are both active and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Educational Needs
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