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Bloom, Lorraine B.; Kettering, Tracy L.; Walker, Diana – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
We compared the effects of the effects of self-instructions in the form of prose or song lyrics in the acquisition of gross motor tasks in 4 third-grade children. We taught participants 4 pairs of gross motor tasks, with one task in each pair taught with prose self-instructions and the other taught with song lyric self-instructions. Both…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Singing, Motor Development
Yalçin, Ayse Saba – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the textbook written according to the principles of prose learning on the student achievement. Pre-test - post-test controlled group design was used in the study. The study was conducted on 3 groups, each composed of 38 2nd grade medical vocational high school students.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, High School Students, Vocational Education, Psychology
Ezeokoli, F. O. – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
The study determined the methods adopted by teachers in prose literature-in-English classrooms, activities of teachers and students, teachers' perceived effectiveness of techniques used. It also examined the objectives of teaching prose literature that teachers should address and the extent teachers believe in student-identified difficulties of…
Descriptors: Literature, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Ezeokoli, F. O.; Igubor, P. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2014
Performance in school examinations has remained one of the reliable indices of the quality of education in many countries. For over two decades in Nigeria, students' performance in most subjects on the school curriculum including Literature-in-English has been persistently declining. A number of explanations are offered for this unsatisfactory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Literature, Questionnaires, Teacher Surveys
Tsekos, Christos A.; Tsekos, Evangelos A.; Christoforidou, Elena I. – International Education Studies, 2012
The first part of this article refers to the initial attempt to relate Nature to Literature since the age of Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt. Alexandria was a metropolis of its time with a quite lively character of urban life. Influenced by that character Theocritus was the first to lay the foundations of what is defined as pastoral poetry. In the…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Literature, Literature Appreciation
Meekums, Bonnie – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
This autoethnographic study addresses the newly appointed counselling trainer's question "How did I get here?" The procedure is described, and findings are presented as partial narratives of the Wounded Dancer, poems and prose written from different voices. Themes are revealed of love, healing, risk taking, unconventionality, physicality and…
Descriptors: Dance, Parent Role, Fathers, Counselor Training

Dowaliby, Fred J.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1984
Three delivery systems with low versus high content structure were investigated in terms of immediate learning performance: captioned videotape, classroom instruction, and connected prose on paper. Results indicated that high content structure yielded significantly greater learning performance than low structure and that this performance occurred…
Descriptors: Captions, College Students, Deafness, Delivery Systems
Biber, Douglas; Conrad, Susan; Cortes, Viviana – Applied Linguistics, 2004
This paper investigates the use of multi-word sequences in two important university registers: classroom teaching and textbooks. Following Biber et al. (1999), we take a frequency driven approach to the identification of multi-word sequences, referred to as "lexical bundles". We compare the lexical bundles in classroom teaching and textbooks to…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Lexicology, Prose, Academic Discourse

Moran, Charles – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Shows how students improve their powers in writing nonfiction when they are asked to solve writing problems similar to those facing major novelists. Advocates teaching literature by teaching writing, and vice versa. (RL)
Descriptors: Authors, Higher Education, Literary Devices, Literary Styles

Brooks, Larry W.; Dansereau, Donald F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Using a developed structural schema specifying the categories of knowledge important to understanding a scientific theory, two experiments involving 82 undergraduates were conducted to assess the effects of structural schema training and text organization on the comprehension and recall of scientific prose. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement

Corgiat, Mark D.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Evaluated contributions of age, presentation modality, task demand, and content structure to prose recall variation among adults. Tested 60 young and 60 older adults for recall of ideas in 641-word prose passage. Found recall for total number of idea units was significantly lower for older participants and for auditory presentation across both age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Learning Modalities, Memory, Older Adults
Hannafin, Michael J. – 1984
A total of 121 third and fourth graders were randomly assigned to instructional treatments which each featured a short children's story. The treatments were oral-only, picture-only, and a combination of oral and pictures. Students saw and/or heard the presentation and were tested immediately and after a two-week retention interval for recall of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Pany, Darlene; Jenkins, Joseph R. – 1977
Three instructional conditions which varied in the extent to which they emphasized direct instruction on word meanings were compared as to their effects on two aspects of reading comprehension: recalling word meanings and recalling facts from a story. The instructional conditions consisted of (1) meanings from context, which required students to…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Prose

Shapiro, Edward S.; McCurdy, Barry L. – Exceptional Children, 1989
In an effort to increase reading proficiency, five 9th- and 10th-grade students with behavior disorders were instructed to read along with an audiotape of vocabulary words. Results suggested significant effects due to practice. Minimal generalization from reading word lists to reading passages was demonstrated. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Behavior Disorders, Connected Discourse, Drills (Practice)
George, Yvetta; Schaer, Barbara – 1986
To determine the most effective imagery method for facilitating kindergarten children's recall of prose content, a study investigated the effects of three mediums for presenting literature to children: storytelling, television, and dramatization. Subjects, 210 kindergarten students, were assigned to one of three gender-balanced treatment groups…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Drama, Imagery, Kindergarten Children
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