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Chandio, Muhammad Tufail; Zafar, Nishat; Solangi, Ghulam Muhiuddin – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
The study analyses the scope and role of Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) in reforming teaching-learning practices in the classroom by employing a systematic balance of questions from both the lower and higher domains of learning in the summative assessment. Thus, this study analyses the annual question papers designed by the Boards of Intermediate and…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Educational Change, Critical Thinking, Memorization
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Alshahrani, Haya Ali – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2019
Vocabulary and spelling are two of the most important skills to achieve success in an academic setting. This review of 15 articles highlights classroom interventions that successfully enhanced vocabulary and spelling skills among ESL, English Only, English language learners (ELL), and learning disabled (LD) students. The strategies that enhanced…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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Pressley, Michael; And Others – Review of Educational Research, 1982
Available experimental evidence is reviewed concerning the keyword method, a two-stage procedure for remembering materials having an associative component. The review examines subjects' memory for definitions, given vocabulary words; subjects' learning of other aspects of vocabulary, given definitions; group-administered keyword studies; and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Memorization, Mnemonics, Recall (Psychology)
Bancroft, W. Jane – 1979
In the 1960's, two medical doctors, Georgi Lozanov and Alfonso Caycedo, discovered independently that certain yogic techniques of physical and mental relaxation could be used to produce not only analgesia but also improved memory and concentration. Systems originally used in medicine and psycho-therapy were applied to education, in particular to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Innovation, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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Laufer, Batia – Foreign Language Annals, 1990
Argues that word learnability and ease in the second-language classroom can serve as guidelines in second-language instruction for the following: the selection of words to be taught; the presentation of words; the facilitation of long-term memorization; the development of strategies for self-learning; and the assessment of vocabulary knowledge.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Memorization, Second Language Instruction
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
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Nyikos, Martha – Modern Language Journal, 1990
Addresses one aspect of individual differences and how socially learned cues may radically influence the verbal learning tasks performed by university students taking a foreign language. The nonuniversity studies reviewed provide the backdrop for a more in-depth study on four memorization modes and how these strategies are largely dependent on…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Language Research