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Reflections on "Promoting Thinking Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities: Effects on Recall and Comprehension of Expository Prose."
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Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. – Exceptionality, 1996
This discussion of fostering recall and developing reasoning processes in students with mild disabilities considers the role of mnemonic strategies, similarities between mnemonic strategies and elaborative interrogation to facilitate information retrieval, constructivism and elaborative interrogation, and such problems as generalization and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization
Idioms: A View from Cognitive Semantics.
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Kovecses, Zoltan; Szabo, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Distinguishes among three aspects of idiomatic meaning: the general meaning, more specific aspects, and connotative aspects. The results of an informal experimental study indicate that the cognitive semantic view can facilitate the learning of idioms for nonnative speakers. (45 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adverbs, Case Studies, Cognitive Development