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Carey, James O.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1981
This study examined the relationships among presentational stimuli (oral, visual, oral plus visual), types of content (concrete, abstract), and learner ability (high verbal, low verbal). Third grade students either heard a short story, watched pictures showing the same short story, or heard and watched a combination of the oral and picture…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Ability, Audiovisual Aids, Aural Learning
Aarons, Louis – 1990
Two studies compared the effectiveness of the bilingual-dichotic method with conventional diotic methods for teaching Russian vocabulary to English-speakers. Subjects were 101 college students. In the bilingual-dichotic method, the foreign word is presented to the right ear and simultaneously, the equivalent native word is presented to the left…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, College Students
Means, Barbara M.; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1976
To assess the importance of visual attributes relative to acoustic and semantic attributes in children's encoding, a 64-item recognition test was administered to first- and sixth-grade children. Recognition items were linedrawings of simple objects accompanied by aural labels. By manipulating the picture, label, and referent in various…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Reese, Stephen D. – 1983
A study tested the effects of between-channel redundancy on television news learning. Redundancy, defined as shared information, was proposed as an explanatory variable that considers the relationship between information in three channels: the audio, the nonverbal pictorial, and visual-verbal print channel. It was hypothesized that pictures would…
Descriptors: Attention, Aural Learning, Higher Education, Learning Modalities

Nord, James, R. – 1977
The foreign language instruction in the United States has followed a paradigm commonly called the "audio-lingual" method for almost twenty years. This paradigm is basically response-oriented and based upon structural linguistics and behavioral psychology. It focuses attention on speaking as the primary skill. It has not lived up to expectations.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Aural Learning, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Hill, Monica – 1994
This study investigated the effects of phonological processing on vocabulary development of learners of English as a Second Language. A list of 30 relatively unfamiliar academic English words of from 1-4 syllables was developed. A control group of 28 subjects, first-year students in a University of Hong Kong English enhancement course, were given…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, College Freshmen, English for Academic Purposes