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Investigation of the Effects of Training in the Use of Adjunct Aids on Comprehension When Reading Factual Materials, With Attention Given to Measuring Attitudes.

Spiegel, Dixie Lee – 1976

This study investigated the effects of training in the use of advance organizers and interspersed questions on the comprehension and attitudes of good, average, and poor eighth-grade readers who were randomly assigned, by intact classroom units, to one of three treatment groups. The first treatment group received eight sessions of training in the…

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Doctoral Dissertations, Factual Reading, Grade 8

Learning a Foreign Language through the Media. CLCS Occasional Paper No. 18.

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Devitt, Sean M. – 1986

The use of mass media as a means of learning a foreign language from the beginning of language study is discussed. Using the media enables many of the features of the natural language acquisition process to be brought into play in a way that much current language teaching material does not. This position is supported by recent research into the…

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes