OpenCourseWare (OCW) has received increasing attention over the past few years in higher education. These courses provide appealing opportunities to view classes taught in well-established universities worldwide. The current study aims to examine how OCW lectures can serve as authentic learning materials to facilitate vocabulary acquisition for…

Researches have showed that joke telling is a type of verbal behavior associated with the field of sociolinguistics (e.g., Al-Khatib, 1999). This study aims to report Taiwanese jokes and their sociological functions that people in Taiwan attempt to communicate in jokes. Besides, this study will report what the typical topics and characteristics…

Shows that picture stimuli are superior to word stimuli in paired-associate learning of foreign language responses. (RL)

Non-English speaking students of average intelligence experience extreme frustration when learning to read. The frustration is partly a result of simultaneous requirements to speak, read, listen, and write in the new language. It also is possible that the teaching methods and strategies employed by the teachers could be harmful to non-English…

EXPERIMENTS ON LANGUAGE LEARNING WERE CONDUCTED IN WALES WITH 26 8-YEAR OLD CHILDREN, OF MIXED ABILITY, BILINGUAL IN ENGLISH AND WELSH, AND ABOUT TO LEARN GERMAN. A STUDY OF THE LEARNING PROCESSES WAS MADE BY A VARIETY OF TESTS USED TO MEASURE LISTENING, UNDERSTANDING, IMITATING, AND WRITING. PRESENTED IN THIS DOCUMENT ARE THE DIFFERENT…

Consistent results of two experiments, in which undergraduate students were taught relatively technical native language vocabulary through keyword methods, showed that effectiveness of such methods depended upon whether meanings of words to be learned were abstract or concrete and whether comprehension was assessed immediately or after a delay.…

This report contrasts the results of a rigidly specified, pattern-oriented approach to learning Spanish with an approach that emphasizes the origination of sentences by the learner in direct response to stimuli. Pretesting and posttesting statistics are presented and conclusions are discussed. The experimental method, which required the student to…