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Download full textCooper, J. David – 1970
A sample of 15 good and 15 poor first-grade readers, selected on the basis of the teacher's classification, performance on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Primary A, Form 1, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, was individually taught five nonsense syllables by each of four teaching modality procedures: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and a…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kinesthetic Methods
Peer reviewedKolker, Brenda; Terwilliger, Paul N. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Concludes that there is a relationship between imagery level and comprehension and that imagery level of text can be determined "a priori" of pupils reading text. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCook, J. Michael; Welch, Michael W. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1980
The effects of visual and auditory process training on reading achievement were explored with 24 learning disabled elementary age students assigned to three treatment groups (auditory training and reading group, visual training and reading group, and reading only group). (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Achievement, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedDavis, Albert J.; Hathaway, Betty K. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Findings imply that while preschool children both enjoy and profit from listening to stories read to them in unelaborated fashion, they gain much more from observing and participating in the actions portrayed in the stories. (FL)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Listening Comprehension, Perceptual Motor Learning
Bursuk, Laura – 1971
The comparative effectiveness of correlated listening-reading and reading-only comprehension lessons was studied using high school retarded readers with varying sensory modality learning preferences. Over a one-semester period, comparable lessons were taught to two groups matched for IQ, age, reading grade level, and freedom from sensory defects.…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes, Multisensory Learning
Zimmer, Richard L. – 1973
This end-of-project report disucsses the procedures that the Dubuque Community School District followed in conducting research on learning the styles and conditions under which elementary school-aged children learn best. The testing program that was developed consisted of administering the Tests of Modality Aptitudes in Reading (TOMAR), the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Learning, Learning Processes
Whyte, Jean; Harland, Rosemary – 1981
A study investigated the proposition that males have a predominant tendency to encode visually when reading, whereas females tend to encode phonologically. Arabic symbols were used to teach a group of 24 college students to "read." Subjects were assigned randomly to one of two conditions: learning the symbols as "letters" one by one with the aid…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Learning Modalities
Taschow, Horst G. – 1970
Deficiencies in spelling ability are present in varying degrees among elementary and secondary school students. Often these deficiencies are accompanied by related reading difficulties. As a means of combating spelling difficulties and thereby also of combating reading difficulties, it is suggested that the visual-auditory-kinesthetic-tactile…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, Elementary School Students, Kinesthetic Methods
Burris-Meyer, Harold – 1970
This document contains eight progress reports of a research project testing the assumption that communication at the nonverbal level affects a student's emotional involvement in the material he studies and this the learning process itself. The project attempted to establish the educational potential of nonverbal communication by measuring…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Methods
