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Download full textLola Geraldes Xavier – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This text critically examines traditional methodologies for teaching grammar in the context of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL). It proposes an alternative, eclectic approach, which can be used in any foreign language. Drawing on evidence from research and pedagogical practices, it highlights areas for improvement in current approaches, such…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedVan Passel, F. J. A. – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
Shows the necessity of foreign language education for cognitive and attitudinal purposes as well as for utilitarian reasons. Foreign language learning/teaching can be of great educational value when it follows the thread of the logical and psychological steps in the creative/discovery procedure. A learning algorithm is mapped on page 61. See FL…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Development, Discovery Learning, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedLoew, Helene Z. – Foreign Language Annals, 1977
The inquiry teaching or discovery approach to learning is discussed. An object lesson is outlined using a cultural artifact as the subject of analysis. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cultural Awareness, Discovery Learning, Educational Objectives
Kessler, Carolyn; Quinn, Mary Ellen – 1981
The achievement of bilingualism appears to have positive consequences for the bilingual child, enhancing universal aspects of cognitive functioning available to all normal children. However, little is yet known about the interaction between educational treatment and the input factors the bilingual child brings to the situation. Focusing on the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Discovery Learning
Muller, Charles – 1978
A study is described of heuristic devices useful in learning both native and second languages. The study concerns particularly the means used by very young students (second and third graders) in vocabulary acquisition and in the establishment of semantic relationships. It was of concern to verify if (1) the children would use their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
Glaser, Robert, Ed. – 1965
This collection of 17 papers relating behavioral science theory to the process of experimental education grew out of a 1963 National Education Association symposium on research in programed instruction. Perspectives and the technology of programing are described in this updated and supplemental successor to the source book, "Teaching Machines…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conferences, Discovery Learning
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
