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Heinze, Betty L. – 1978
The tactile-kinesthetic approach to spelling provides a practical teaching device for use with both disabled learners and moderately poor spellers who need to learn a technical or professional vocabulary. This multisensory approach to learning teaches to the student's strengths and places emphasis on finger contact, muscle movement, saying and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities
Bassano, Sharron – 1982
Teaching approaches for adult English as second language students with little previous formal education or native language literacy cannot rely on the traditional written materials. For students who cannot be reached through the written word, approaches must be devised that engage other channels of perceptions. Classroom activities are suggested…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Mamchur, Carolyn – 1982
Carl Jung labeled people who use sensing or intuition as a preferred function for dealing with their environment as "perceiving" types who prefer to process information, and those whose dominant function is thinking or feeling as "judging" types who prefer to make decisions. The outstanding quality of perceiving types is their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Learning Modalities
Schaiper, Len; Flores, Jayni – 1985
Research on learning styles of Mexican Americans has focused on the cognitive processes and cultural variables affecting cognitive style rather than on perceptual learning style. This study is the first attempt in the assessment of seven perceptual learning style orientations among an exclusive Mexican American population. Using the Multi-Modal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Educational Research, Learning Modalities
Taylor-King, Sheila – 1997
In order to reach and teach homeless adults, teachers must acknowledge each student as an individual and take into account the talents and intelligences each person possesses. Students should be encouraged to share their backgrounds, both as a source of improving their self-esteem and as a starting point for enhancing their educational work.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cognitive Style, Homeless People
Austin, Mary C.; Donovan, Margaret A. – 1978
The inconclusive results of research comparing beginning reading methodologies in the 1960s led many schools to change their approaches to beginning reading instruction. In the 1970s the focus has shifted from the belief in a single method as superior for all children to the attempt to match methodology to the needs of individual children. A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education, Learning
Drew, Dan; Reese, Stephen – 1981
The impact of news film on children's learning was investigated by presenting 193 fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh grade students with one of two versions of a newscast. The children viewed a videotape of a newscaster introducing film reports of six stories or listened to the newscaster reading the news stories. The children provided responses…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Films
Hannafin, Michael J.; Carey, James O. – 1981
A total of 152 fourth grade students participated in a study examining the effects of visual-only, verbal-only, and combined audiovisual prose presentations and different elaboration strategy conditions on student learning of abstract and concrete prose. The students saw and/or heard a short animated story, during which they were instructed to…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Research, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
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
Donovan, Margaret A.; Austin, Mary C. – 1978
A study of the effects of modality preferences and teacher competencies on reading achievement was undertaken using three different programs for initial reading instruction. The major purposes of the study were to determine differences in reading achievement when first grade children are placed in programs congruent or noncongruent with their…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dimensional Preference, Learning, Learning Modalities