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Willerman, Benne; Melvin, Bernice – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Discusses various experiments involving the teaching of vocabulary through the use of mnemonics, and describes an experiment which sought to test the effectiveness of the mnemonic method in acquiring writing skills in the foreign vocabulary. (AM)
Descriptors: Experiments, French, Language Instruction, Language Research
Fletcher, Faye M.; and others – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Experiments, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Research

Olsson, Margareta – English Language Teaching, 1973
Part of a project--Gothenburg, Teaching Methods in English--conducted at the University of Gothenburg and the Gothenburg School of Education in Sweden. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Experiments, Grammar
Slack, Charles W. – 1964
The results of a number of experiments with the memorizing of several different subject-matters are presented in such a way that the relationship between number of opportunities for error (word elements faded) and number of errors actually made can be observed for individuals and groups. The particular selection of word elements to be taught by…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, Experiments
CLARK, JOHN L.D. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL FIVE RELATED EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED IN AREAS PERTAINING TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO NATIVE SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. THE FIRST TWO EXPERIMENTS SOUGHT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ACCEPTABILITY OF 38 ENGLISH PHONEMES TO NATIVE FRENCH LISTENERS AT EACH OF TWO ACCEPTABILITY LEVELS--PHONEMIC AND…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Shawl, James Robert – 1969
An operational definition of the standard for learner achievement at Level 2, with respect to the skills of reading and writing, was proposed for Spanish as one aspect of a research project. The method described, serving as the basis for articulation of level achievement, deals with general procedures, proposed operational definition of reading…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Experiments, Language Instruction