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Johnson, Carole M. – 1977
Training tutors to help students with study skills and content-reading strategies, as well as to assist with course work, can broaden the role of tutors. Handouts for tutors have been developed that adapt traditional reading/study strategies for use in specific disciplines, sometimes with specific textbooks in mind. Tutors should also emphasize…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Crist, Barbara – 1978
With emphasis on the exciting aspects of language learning, this vocabulary improvement mini-course aims at presenting words in ways that are relevant, communicative, and enjoyable for the college freshman. Advocating a multisensory approach to vocabulary that involves a "hear it, say it," then, "read it, write it" sequence, the mini-course offers…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Context Clues, Etymology, Higher Education
Soven, Margot – 1981
College freshmen, when confronted with an essay question using broad concepts such as "society,""freedom," and "progress," seldom clarify or define the concepts in their essays before expressing their opinions or solutions. Students who read without interpreting the concepts implied by certain words shortchange the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Tucker, Elizabeth Sulzby – 1977
Teachers working with a language experience approach to reading may use word-sorting activities as a means of exploring the letter/sound concepts and semantic concepts that children are forming. Using words that are already in a child's reading vocabulary, words that the child has made into sight vocabulary, and words that the child has requested…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Generalization, Language Experience Approach
Smagorinsky, Peter – 1991
Educators are now stressing that teaching students to be independent learners who learn to plan, structure and regulate their own learning activities, should be central to instruction. Studying word parts and origins has the potential for metacognitive instruction. Learning about the importance of context clues is also potentially metacognitive,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Download full textButler, David C.; And Others – 1973
This paper reports on an experiment in mathemagenic behavior ("Student inspection and processing activities that give birth to learning") as related to second-language vocabulary learning. The experiment was designed to determine whether visual mnemonics are more effective than unelaborated rehearsal technique for learning FL vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, German, Language Aids, Language Instruction
