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Peer reviewedGreen, Peter S. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Experiments, Educational Media, Educational Research
Peer reviewedKharma, Nayef – English Language Teaching, 1972
Based on a paper given at the Third Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, London, England, December 30, 1969 to January 2, 1970. (VM)
Descriptors: Children, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Holec, H. – 1971
This article addresses the question, "Does the introduction of a language laboratory improve the functioning of a given teaching method?" Four experiments with the language laboratory are described and analyzed: the Keating and Lorge experiments in New York, the Jalling experiment in Sweden, and the Freedman experiment in Great Britain. These…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Media, Educational Technology, Instructional Improvement
Download full textFreedman, Elaine S. – 1975
This is a preliminary report on a series of small-scale language teaching experiments, aimed primarily at demonstrating that valid research into language teaching methods is possible. Small-scale refers not to the number of subjects involved, but to the scope of the experiment. Instead of looking at a method as a whole (as happens in large-scale…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Educational Experiments
Smith, Philip D., Jr. – 1969
Beginning with a brief review of the growth of the audiolingual method of foreign language instruction in the United States of America, this paper examines implications and lessons drawn from an educational experiment in language instruction known as the Pennsylvania Report. The text of a memorandum to school administrators in Pennsylvania by the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Conventional Instruction, Educational Experiments, French
Wipf, Joseph Arnold – 1972
In order to gain some insight into the issue of optimum age for second language learning, the experiment described in this report was based on the negative hypothesis that there is no significant difference in the ability of randomly selected subjects, kindergarten through grade six, to imitate critical sounds and sound clusters embedded in words…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, Elementary Education
Weiss, Louis – 1971
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the assumption that auditory discrimination and pronunciation in a foreign language are closely related. If the assumption were to be well-founded, then it might be possible for foreign language students with high auditory discrimination ability to work alone in the language…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests, Conditioning
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
