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Download full textHawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1979
This handbook is intended for content area teachers in grades seven through twelve who want to help students improve their comprehension of both oral and written language. The first three chapters discuss the nature of comprehension and establish the general philosophical framework for the strategies and activities that make up the major portion…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Creative Thinking
Mazur, Gertrud S., Ed. – 1979
The following papers of relevance to second language instruction are compiled here: (1) "Bilingual Math in a Monolingual Classroom: A Field Study," by Elizabeth M. Baricevic; (2) "Ideologie et pedagogie: reflexions sur le manuel de francais au programme de '3e annee secondaire' en Algerie," by Jeanne Adam; (3) "Pedagogic…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Curriculum, Discourse Analysis
Stuart, Martha – 1980
Information exchanged between people is a renewable expanding resource that can contribute to human growth and development, and the new technology of videotape offers an excellent vehicle for that exchange. Traditional forms of information exchange or communication used in human development work are limited in many ways, and a more positive…
Descriptors: Adults, Change Agents, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperative Programs
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1976
The bulk of this guide is devoted to the detailed description of 18 tests of English as a second language (ESL). Most of the tests were produced in Great Britain, the remainder in the United States. Each description provides information on the source, aims, and administration of the test; outlines the content of the test; and, where pertinent,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Dickinson, David K.; Weaver, Phyllis A. – 1979
The story recall abilities of 26 dyslexic children were tested, using a story schema representation previously used in research with normal children. Comparisons within the disabled reader group found significant differences in story schema knowledge, but comparisons between normal and disabled readers revealed no significant differences. However,…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis, Dyslexia
BOSWORTH, LEWIS A. – 1968
THE PLACEMENT BATTERY CONSISTS OF TWO TESTS FROM THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD (READING AND LISTENING), A GRAMMAR PROFICIENCY TEST, AND AN ORAL INTERVIEW. FRESHMEN WHO SCORE WITHIN A CERTAIN RANGE ON THESE TESTS ARE PLACED IN SECOND YEAR INTENSIVE FRENCH (TWO CLASS PERIODS A DAY). PREREQUISITE FOR THE THIRD YEAR COURSE IS NOT THE…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Freshmen, College Language Programs, Educational Testing
PEDERSON, WALTER E.; SWITZER, CHARLES A. – 1967
AS THE RESULT OF A CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE MANDATE FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LANGUAGE PROGRAM BEGINNING AT THE SIXTH GRADE LEVEL, WEST HIGH SCHOOL SET UP A TWO-FOLD LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT TEST TO ACCURATELY PLACE QUALIFIED STUDENTS IN ADVANCED COURSES AND TO GET A GENERAL IDEA OF THE LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT OF INCOMING STUDENTS WITH VARIOUS DEGREES OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), FLES
MOAKLEY, FRANCIS X. – 1968
EFFECTS OF PERIODIC VARIATIONS IN AN INSTRUCTIONAL FILM'S NORMAL LOUDNESS LEVEL FOR RELEVANT AND IRRELEVANT FILM SEQUENCES WERE MEASURED BY A MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST. RIGOROUS PILOT STUDIES, RANDOM GROUPING OF SEVENTH GRADERS FOR TREATMENTS, AND RATINGS OF RELEVANT AND IRRELEVANT PORTIONS OF THE FILM BY AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF JUDGES PRECEDED THE…
Descriptors: Attention, Audiovisual Instruction, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation
Wooten, Vida Jo – Texas Outlook, 1968
Children will enjoy creative writing in the primary grades if they are given inspiration, time to write, and the opportunity to share their work with classmates. A second-grade class began a creative writing project by listening to poetry and selecting poems to memorize and recite. This stimulated and encouraged them to evaluate and to write…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Teaching
Carroll, John B.; Cramer, H. Leslie – 1968
Time-compressed speech is now being used to present recorded lectures to groups at word rates up to two and one-half times that at which they were originally spoken. This process is particularly helpful to the blind. This study investigated the intelligibility of speech processed with seven different discard intervals and at seven rates from two…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Blindness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension
Bogle, Meta Eloise – 1978
The responses of 84 children (42 in kindergarten and 42 in first grade) while trying to identify sight words that were similar in sound (bowl/pole), similar in sound and shape (boat/boot), or dissimilar (cup/moon) yielded information about phonetic composition as a source of information by which beginning readers identify sight words. The…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Listening Skills
Howell, John F. – 1975
The effectiveness of an Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I preschool education program, which stressed listening habits and language skills, on disadvantaged children in kindergarten and first grade was examined. Graduates and nongraduates were administered The Boehm Test of Basic Skills and a teacher completed adjustment rating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Followup Studies
Simonds, Lynn – 1975
The program outlined in this document has been based on the premises that the communication skills form the basis for achievement in other areas and are interwoven with personal development and self-concept, and that working on language development involves increasing children's abilities to use sounds, the structure of the language, grammatical…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Drama, Early Childhood Education
Marashi, Mehdi – 1974
This volume contains achievement tests designed for American students studying Persian at the elementary level. They are constructed on the basis of materials related to course syllabi. Preceding the tests, the sources of the test data are reviewed and the main ones are listed. The allocation of points in each section of the test syllabus is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Troyka, Lynn Quitman; Nudelman, Jerrold – 1975
Six simulation games for English instruction in the classroom are offered in this book, the aim of which is to encourage communication. In simulation games, rules are structured to correspond to those that are an integral part of a real situation, with supporting documentation replicating actual materials pertinent to the situation. The contents…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Games, English Instruction
