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Direct linkBione, Tiago; Cardoso, Walcir – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
This study evaluated the voice of a modern English text-to-speech (TTS) system in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context in terms of its speech quality, ability to be understood by L2 users, and potential for focus on specific language forms. Twenty-nine Brazilian EFL learners listened to stories and sentences, produced by a TTS voice and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Townsend, David J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
Comprehension includes interpreting sentences in terms of aspectual categories such as processes ("Harry climbed") and culminations ("Harry reached the top"). Adding a verbal modifier such as "for many years" to a culmination coerces its interpretation from one to many culminations. Previous studies have found that coercion increases lexical…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Teaching Methods, Human Body, Sentences
Download full textCahill, Maria; Bigheart, Jennifer – Knowledge Quest, 2016
Parents and caregivers can maximize children's engagement with educational television programming by co-viewing and discussing concepts and issues during and following episodes, and parents and caregivers can poach ideas and processes from these programs and apply them to their own interactions with children. School librarians might also consider…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Story Telling, Educational Benefits, School Libraries
Cooper, James L.; Robinson, Pamela – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2014
The authors describe several types of classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and cognitive scaffolding procedures that they have developed over the years. They then bring the procedures together in a sample lecture/group learning class presentation.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Lecture Method
Watkins, J. Foster; Graves, Richard L. – Elementary English, 1972
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Comprehension, English Instruction, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedWheldall, K.; Mittler, P. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Thirty-nine normal pre-school and 48 older mentally handicapped children of similar vocabulary age were tested on a sentence comprehension test under three different presentation conditions. Results showed that presentation conditions did not affect normal children, but mentally handicapped children were adversely affected by the condition in…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Psychology, Educational Testing, Handicapped Children
Van Naerssen, Margaret M. – 1979
Research in linguistics (theoretical, socio- and psycho-linguistics) on relative clause formation is reveiwed in order to determine the advisability of teaching this construction in English as a second language (ESL) classes. It is suggested that research on other constructions can lead to implications for teaching these constructions when there…
Descriptors: Comprehension, English (Second Language), Grammar, Intellectual Development
Wolff, John U. – 1971
This volume is the first of two volumes of a basic elementary course in Indonesian (Malay). The aim of these materials is to prepare the student to communicate and read Indonesian as a native speaker does. The books are designed to be used with the help of a native-speaking informant who furnishes the model of speech for students to imitate. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Grammar, Indonesian
Wolff, John U. – 1971
This volume is the second of two volumes of a basic elementary course in Indonesian (Malay). The aim of the materials is to prepare the student to communicate and read in Indonesian as a native speaker does. The books are designed to be used with the help of a native-speaking informant who furnishes the model of speech for students to imitate. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Grammar, Indonesian
