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JANES, EDITH; VON HORN, ARLENE – 1967
THE RESULTS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS IN LANGUAGE ARTS COVERING 10 YEARS FOR GRADES NINE THROUGH 12 IN GARY, INDIANA, REVEALED THE NEED FOR A DIRECTED PROGRAM IN VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION. A 2-YEAR PILOT STUDY ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT USING THE DIRECT APPROACH WAS CONDUCTED AMONG 5,000 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS. A PRETEST WAS FOLLOWED BY 20 WEEKLY LESSONS,…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Reading Comprehension
PDF pending restorationSiddiqui, Dilnawaz – 1977
This study examined the effect of the occurrence of homophones in instructional materials on the learning of new vocabulary. Forty-two junior high school seventh graders were randomly assigned to two groups of 21 each. Group one was exposed to a set of six slides that showed sentences using homophonic pairs of words (juxtaposed sentences) and then…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Instructional Materials, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes
Cardarelli, Aldo F. – 1979
Twenty-one activities that integrate music and the language arts in order to capitalize on children's interests are described in this paper. Topics of the activities are as follows: alphabetical order, pantomime, vocabulary building from words of a favorite song, words that are "the most (whatever)" from songs, mood words, a configuration clue…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Arts, Music
Download full textFriedman, William J. – 1979
This study investigated (1) the order of acquisition of related temporal and spatial terms, (2) the application of temporal and spatial terms and (3) the relationship between the application of temporal and spatial terms and performance on cognitive measures of temporal and spatial ordering. Children 3 to 5 years of age were tested on four…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation
SMITH, EDWIN H.; AND OTHERS – 1965
COMPETENT LITERACY EDUCATION INVOLVES THE CONTINUOUS DIAGNOSIS AND CORRECTION OF DEFICIENCIES. THROUGH FORMAL AND INFORMAL DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES AND OBSERVATION, TEACHERS LOCATE SPECIFIC NEEDS AND DEFECTS AND THEN APPLY SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES TO MEET THOSE NEEDS AND CORRECT OR WORK AROUND THOSE DEFECTS. TO HELP TEACHERS LOCATE TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Reading Diagnosis
Ahrendt, Kenneth M. – 1977
Content areas teachers must assume responsibility for teaching students the basic reading skills that are necessary for achieving success in their field. Content teachers frequently must be convinced that reading skills are a valid part of their curriculum and must be given help in teaching these skills. They should be shown that the teaching of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Reyes, Donald J.; And Others – 1975
Three hypotheses were tested: (1) there is no significant difference between the proportions of higher level definitions given by the monolingual students and those of the bilingual students given in English; (2) there is no significant difference between the proportions of higher level definitions given by the monolingual students and those of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Definitions, High School Students
Fowler, William; Swenson, Amy – 1976
This longitudinal study explored the effects of early language stimulation upon norms of the language development of three infants. When the infants were 4-5 months old, a long-term program of intensified early language stimulation was implemented by weekly home tutoring sessions with the parents. The tutor stimulation program consisted of an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Home Programs, Imitation, Infants
Gray, Lois A.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1975
The Word Meaning section of the Metropolitan Readiness Test, Form A, was questioned as a true measure of the capabilities of culturally disadvantaged children. Therefore, an attempt was made to compare the Metropolitan Reading Readiness Test with a test in which as many objects as possible were renamed to coincide with the language of the students…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Readiness
Dale, Edgar – 1975
This booklet is designed to help people improve their vocabulary. Four principles of vocabulary development are outlined: language development and vocabulary development are closely related; language development is concept development; vocabulary development is an ongoing process; and vocabulary is the basis for most tests of I.Q. The author…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Listening Skills
Hare, Sally Zalkin – 1975
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effectiveness of three methods of teaching reading vocabulary to third-grade students. Eighty third-grade students were given Form 1 of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Vocabulary Section, Primary C, as a pretest and randomly assigned to three experimental groups and a control group. Forty…
Descriptors: Definitions, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Primary Education
Goldstein, E. M. – 1972
Educational experiments in the teaching of Latin literature being conducted in Belgium by Professor Delatte are examined in this study. The base vocabulary of Caesar's "Gallic Wars" was determined with the use of an IBM 620 computer, and the pedagogical implications leading to a simplified approach to the study of the text are discussed. The study…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Data Processing, Databases
Quebec Dept. of Education, Quebec. French Language Office. – 1974
This glossary of words and expressions commonly used in telephone conversation is designed for telephone users and not for technicians. The booklet is divided into the following sections: (1) a discussion of telephone etiquette, (2) a detailed description of the telephone, (3) a French-English list of current expressions, and (4) an English-French…
Descriptors: English, French, Glossaries, Language Instruction
Press, Margaret L.
This paper reports on an experiment designed to collect data on children's perception and use of semantic attributes. Forty-five children ranging in age from 2 years 8 months to 6 years were given a picture test involving judgment of similarities between objects. The test consisted of 47 groups of pictures; each group contained a stimulus or a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Componential Analysis, Language Acquisition, Perception Tests
Preston, Ralph C., Ed. – 1969
Five papers given at the International Reading Association conference held in conjunction with a National Council for the Social Studies conference in 1968 are presented in this work. Although each paper is addressed to a different subtopic, there is the common theme of the role that reading can play in social studies instruction. The subtopics…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Learning Motivation, Literary Criticism, Logical Thinking
