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Download full textLAFFEY, JAMES L. – 1966
DATA FROM FIVE AREAS OF BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH WHICH HAVE RELEVANCE TO THE TEACHING OF READING ARE REVIEWED IN AN EFFORT TO INDICATE HOW THIS RELATIVELY NEW TYPE OF RESEARCH (1) APPLIES BASIC SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES TO PRACTICAL LEARNING SITUATIONS, (2) HELPS BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN LEARNING THEORY AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, (3) REPRESENTS AN…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Eye Movements, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Interdisciplinary Approach
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1979
Two of the most widely used reading programs in the country, the 1976 Houghton Mifflin Reading Series and the 1976 Ginn Reading 720 Series, are analyzed in this volume to determine the methods they suggest for teaching reading comprehension. Eight sections contain the following information: (1) a short description of some of the surface features…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Chesterfield, Ray; And Others – 1979
The purpose of this part of the multimethod Head Start bilingual/bicultural curriculum evaluation (Juarez and Associates, 1979), is to present the results of a pilot test of a battery of instruments to be used in assessing the effectiveness of four early childhood bilingual/bicultural curriculum models. The instruments pilot tested were the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Curriculum Evaluation
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
The intent of this publication is to provide an opportunity for educators to consider reading comprehension as dependent, at least in part, on specific features of written language. Chapter 1 discusses a theoretical framework for thinking, problem solving, and reading comprehension. Chapter 2 deals with teaching word-level comprehension,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Content Area Reading, Context Clues
Donahue, Mavis L. – 1978
Most studies of language acquisition overlook the fact that a child learns language in the context of acquiring the social skill of conversing known as "turn-taking." The few studies of verbal turn-taking in children suggest that prosodic features (suprasegmentals) and turn-taking skills are integrated by the age of two years, nine months, and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Intellectual Development
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 49 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: reading instruction for elementary school children, the significance of the teacher or teacher aide in reading instruction, reading achievement, reading…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
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
Hoover, Mary Rhodes; And Others – 1976
The Black English tests for students attempt to provide a complete picture of a Black child's language proficiency, including the child's relative proficiency in the standard and vernaculary forms of speech. Three different tests, which can be taken separately, are included in this manual. The "Discrimination Test" measures the ability to…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes
Drummond, Don, Ed.; Wignell, Edna, Ed. – 1979
Offered as a guide to the teaching of reading and the development of reading skills, this publication provides information on assessment, teaching methods, and published resource materials and is directed to elementary school teachers and reading specialists. The ten chapters include information on the stages of reading, reading readiness, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading
CEMREL, Inc., St. Louis, MO. R&D Interpretation Service. – 1979
The Research and Development Interpretation Service (RDIS) has been collecting reading research to identify items that will be most useful to the regional exchanges and their clients. This bibliography, the result of that work, lists the items in alphabetical order by author. The items are also indexed according to major topic areas, including…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Literature Reviews
Smith, R. Kent, Ed.; Pinette, Clayton A., Ed. – 1976
Six articles concerning college reading instruction are presented in this special interest journal. Chester Tillman and A. Garr Cranney offer informal guidelines for evaluating commercially produced reading improvement materials in terms of their purpose, educational and psychological factors which affect appropriateness for a class, cost, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Performance Contracts, Program Descriptions, Reading Comprehension
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This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effect of instruction in critical listening on the reading progress of remedial readers; the effects of four tutoring procedures on the oral reading responses…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Kachuck, Beatrice Levy – 1978
Six reading textbook series and two standardized reading tests were examined for their uses of 16 syntax structures and the sequential patterns of increasing complexity of syntax structures within each series. Results were as follows: although the series showed overall increases in complexity across the six grades, the increases were not…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades
Sjoholm, Kaj – 1979
A multiple-choice test of English vocabulary and grammar was administered to college-bound Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking students studying English in Finland. Erroneous responses were analyzed to determine differences in learning strategies between the two groups. Swedish speakers were found to choose incorrect alternatives based on…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
KINKEAD, THOMAS; LEVINE, MILTON – 1964
SPECIFIC STUDY MATERIALS AND A GUIDE FOR TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION AND LITERATURE ARE PRESENTED. THE STUDY MATERIALS PROVIDE FOR A WIDE RANGE OF ABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT AND ARE APPLIED TO THE TITLES REGULARLY USED IN THE NINTH-GRADE LITERATURE PROGRAM OF THE RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN SPRING VALLEY, NEW YORK. EXCERPTS FROM "THE THREAD…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Creative Reading, English Literature, Functional Reading
