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Peer reviewedMoseley, Elloui – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1977
Suggests ways to teach the diacritical markings used to indicate the pronunciation of words. (MKM)
Descriptors: Diacritical Marking, Dictionaries, Higher Education, Pronunciation
Christ, Frank L., Ed. – 1970
The report drawn from the third annual conference that was designed to provide professional dialogue for those concerned with the improvement of college reading programs, this volume contains ten papers that deal with the following topics: the certification of reading teachers, diagnosing the reading needs of college students, a multimedia…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Motivation Techniques, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedCrist, Robert L.; Petrone, Joseph M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1977
Studied the effects of two methods of instruction in teaching the conceptual meaning of 15 unfamiliar words. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Higher Education, Reading Research
Peer reviewedOrmrod, Jeanne Ellis – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Describes three experiments exploring the learning of new words by university students. Among the findings are (1) students can learn word spellings while reading them in context, and (2) instructions to learn words and additional representations of a word facilitate learning. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Educational Research, Higher Education
Peer reviewedD'Angelo, Karen – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses the benefits of precis writing and suggests specific tasks to develop that skill. (AEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
Luere, Jeane – 1980
Vocabulary words frequently used in the media and popular literature can be taught by using a modified foreign language laboratory method whereby the students are introduced to the words aurally. First the students are read a concocted paragraph that incorporates the new vocabulary. This is followed by repetition in which the paragraph or dialogue…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Download full textWilliamson, Leon E. – 1976
Most college vocabulary books lack the sophistication of a complex. Rather, they reflect the characteristics of congeries or disparate objects grouped together without any logical basis. Vocabulary study in college should focus on the process of concept formation in all its complexity, with emphasis on the relationship between the specific and…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
Alexander, J. Estill; Barnard, Harry V. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Higher Education, Lexicology
Peer reviewedJacobson, Jeanne M. – Reading Horizons, 1989
Describes a study strategy called RESPONSE. Includes a reading assignment response form which focuses students' attention on important points; questions; points of confusion; and new terms, concepts, vocabulary, and names. (JAD)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Student Journals
Peer reviewedColgan, Tobias – Hispania, 1988
Describes variations of three popular games for teaching in the foreign language classroom. "Recycled" games include Bingo, dice-related exercises, and "Pictionary." (CB)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Higher Education, Pattern Drills (Language), Second Language Instruction
Henk, William A. – 1984
A study investigated the hypothesis that high frequency words can be effectively specified when word shape data are combined with available contextual clues. To test this hypothesis, an augmented contextual restriction task similar to one used by R. N. and L. R. Haber was employed. The task differed in terms of increased passage difficulty and the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Kossack, Sharon; And Others – 1980
Content area teachers should be aware of the five levels of vocabulary with which their students must cope. The five levels include standard words at the least complex level, transitional terms that have different meanings in the content area than in standard usage, technical terms specific to the subject area, changeable terms (similar to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Readability, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1985
Describes a reading technique for college writing and a method of teaching word structue. (HOD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
Smith, Carl B. – 1997
This book presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) "Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms, and…
Descriptors: Affixes, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Smith, Carl B. – 2002
This second edition presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms,…
Descriptors: Affixes, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
