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Download full textOregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1989
Stressing that building vocabulary knowledge is a continuously developing skill, acquired over a lifetime and in a variety of ways, this concept paper suggests instructional strategies that lead to word knowledge. Following a research summary and a section on implications for instructions, the paper focuses on the various instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Models, Reading Comprehension
Carnine, Linda – OSSC Bulletin, 1980
This document presents diagnostic and prescriptive techniques that will enable teachers to enhance secondary school students' learning through reading in content areas. Three terms used in the document are defined in Section I: "vocabulary skills" include word attack skills, sight word skills, and word meanings; "comprehension skills" are literal,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Informal Reading Inventories
Da Que Hablar, 1995
This Spanish-Embassy-produced document consists of the three issues of a Spanish language and culture newsletter for use in Spanish-language classrooms. Each issue contains reprinted articles on current events, both in Spain and around the world; articles on Spanish culture, geography, and famous people; and games to play for learning the Spanish…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Cultural Awareness, Current Events
Kapinus, Barbara A. – School, 1987
The strong relationship between knowledge of vocabulary and reading achievement leads to the conclusion that knowing the meaning of words in a passage enables the reader to answer questions about the passage. The goal of vocabulary instruction is the acquisition of the concepts represented by words as well as the ability to recognize and analyze…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Da que hablar, 1994
This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter published during 1994. Issues contain current events articles in Spanish and classroom language learning activities based on those articles. The articles are brief, most reproduced from other publications. Topics include celebrity news, the arts, Spanish culture and geography, sports, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Authors, Class Activities, Cultural Awareness
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 53 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) instructional procedures for teaching word meanings; (2) readability; (3) reading acquisition; (4) the relation of word deprivation to reading in elementary…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Melanges Pedagogiques, 1985
The 1985 issue of the journal on second language teaching and learning contains four articles in French and three in English, including: "Lire et comprendre un texte informatif (Reading and understanding an Informative Text)" (Jacqueline Billant, Pascale Fade); "Les nouveaux diplomes de Francais Language Etrangere: Le D.E.L.F. et le…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Computer Assisted Instruction, Degrees (Academic), Foreign Countries
TECFORS, 1983
Numbers 1 through 5 of the 1983 TECFORS newsletter include these articles: "Topic Schemas (LL): In the Classroom" (David A. Ross); "Using Diagrams to Teach Reading Comprehension" (Tia Johnson, Judy Sheetz-Brunetti); "Correcting ESL Compositions" (Nancy Hooper); "A Schema Theory Bibliography" (Ann M. Johns);…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Classroom Techniques
Beall, Kathleen R., Ed. – ESL Magazine, 2001
The six issues in this volume include the following articles: "Preview of TESOL 2001" (Adelaide Heyde Parsons); "Six Internet Pioneers Teach English to the World" (Dennis Oliver, Randall Davis, Elaine Hoter, Charles Kelly, Dave Sperling, and Ruth Vilmi); "Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom" (Rebecca Oxford);…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adults, Career Exploration, Classroom Techniques
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (Singapore). Regional Language Centre. – 1992
The 12 issues of the second language teaching and research journal, spanning 1988-1993 contain articles on a variety of language teaching and learning issues. A substantial proportion concern English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, both general and academic, in a number of Southeast Asian cultural contexts. Regional variations of English are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis
