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Choi, Namyoun – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Educational standards alignment, which matches similar or equivalent concepts of educational standards, is a necessary task for educational resource discovery and retrieval. Automated or semi-automated alignment systems for educational standards have been recently available. However, existing systems frequently result in inconsistency in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Internet
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Wilawan, Sujunya – Reading Improvement, 2011
This study investigated the effects of an instructional procedure which incorporated lexical cohesion and macrorules to promote main idea comprehension of Thai EFL students. One hundred and six undergraduate students taking a reading module were randomly assigned to one of three teaching conditions: the combined use of lexical cohesion and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Rhetoric, Student Attitudes
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Gajda, Robert S. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1974
Attempts to develop a critical thinking model which will teach students to cope effectively with advertising. (RB)
Descriptors: Advertising, Critical Thinking, Health Education, Higher Education
Allen, Patrick – TESL Talk, 1977
This paper discusses how two contrasting models of language relate respectively to a structural and a functional view of language teaching. The implications for syllabus design are considered when the emphasis shifts from the formal aspects of language structure to a consideration of how language functions in the social context. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Guides, Grammar, Language Instruction
Cook, V. J. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1978
This article examines some of the ways in which language has been organised for language teaching. Their deficiencies are examined and some possibilities for the future are suggested. (Author/NC R)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
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van Kleeck, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1995
This article proposes that meaning and form (the sound-letter correspondences) are both important in beginning reading, but that initially they should be taught separately. Support for this position is provided, and a two-stage model of preliteracy development is offered, with the first stage emphasizing meaning and the second stage emphasizing…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Literacy Education, Phonics
Stone, Lynda – 1993
This conference presentation is offered as a prolegomenon, or introduction, to a paper and research project. The issues of whether prolegomena are modernist explanatory devices and whether postmodern prolegomena are possible are discussed. The paper proposes a research inquiry into "postmodern teaching" initiated through the metaphor of…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Educational Philosophy
Drake, Harold L. – 1987
General semantics and science fiction are disciplines that can be incorporated in lectures for public speaking and other speech communication classes. Alfred Korzybski's theories of general semantics lend themselves to researching, preparing, delivering interpersonal communication messages, and establishing student interest in foreign languages,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Higher Education