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Fox, James, Ed.; Elson, Nicholas, Ed. – 1974
This guide to teaching English as a second language to newly arrived adult immigrants has chapters devoted to the characteristics of the adult learner; the teaching of listening, pronunciation, reading, and writing; vocabulary building; lesson planning, and assessing student performance. Approximately half the book is devoted to a discussion of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
Download full textCanner, Jane M.; Lenke, Joanne M. – 1980
Item response data were obtained from large samples of students in Grades K-community college, taking the following tests: Stanford Early School Achievement Test, Stanford Achievement Test, Stanford Test of Academic Skills, Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, and Stanford Diagnostic Mathematical Test. Data were classified as fitting or non-fitting…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Goodness of Fit, Item Analysis
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1977
The arguments are presented for and against the Hawaii 3 on 2 program, a team-taught, flexible, individualized instructional program for primary grade students. This report is based on an advocate-adversary evaluation design. The advocate team concluded that: the program is working effectively; teachers, principals, and parents support the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Educational Objectives
LONDONER, CARROLL A. – 1967
A STUDY WAS MADE OF THE READABILITY LEVELS OF CURRICULUM MATERIALS USED IN THE BASIC AND THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT THE ATTERBURY JOB CORPS CENTER IN INDIANA. THE GUNNING FOG INDEX WAS USED TO MEASURE STYLE OF DIFFICULTY AS CREATED BY LENGTHY SENTENCES AND POLYSYLLABIC WORDS. THIS IS HIGHLY CORRELATED TO THE LEVEL OF SCHOOL GRADE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Grade 4, Grade 5
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) electrodermal responses and informal reading criteria; (2) a comparison of standardized reading test scores, informal reading inventory results, and miscue…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Doctoral Dissertations
Purves, Alan C.; And Others – 1981
Based on data obtained from a random sample of United States schools in 1970, this monograph reports achievements in reading speed, comprehension, and word knowledge and in literary understanding, interpretation, and interest of American students aged 9, 14, and 17. The monograph also contains demographic information on teachers, permitting a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Chastain, Kenneth – 1980
This study presents a synthesis of major dimensions of the second language teaching-learning process. The first four chapters survey some factors which are considered important in this process and examine what is known and unknown about each one. Subsequent chapters deal with the following problems: (1) language learners' errors, (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1968
Volume 3 of the Basic Course in French contains 10 lessons, one for each day of the third and fourth weeks of the intermediate phase. Every fifth lesson is a review lesson. The objective of the intermediate phase is to enable the student to distinguish and use the most essential structures of French. The approach is audio-lingual and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Audiolingual Skills, Dialogs (Language), French
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1968
Volume 5 of the Basic Course in French contains 10 lessons, one for each day of the seventh and eighth weeks of the intermediate phase. Every fifth lesson is a review lesson. The objective of the intermediate phase is to enable the student to distinguish and use the most essential structures of French. The approach is audio-lingual and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Audiolingual Skills, Dialogs (Language), French
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1968
Volume 6 of the Basic Course in French contains 10 lessons, one for each day of the twelfth and thirteenth weeks of the intermediate phase. Every fifth lesson is a review lesson. The objective of the intermediate phase is to enable the student to distinguish and use the most essential structures of French. The aproach is audio-lingual and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Audiolingual Skills, Dialogs (Language), French
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1969
Volume 8 of the Basic Course in French contains 10 lessons, one for each day of the sixteenth and seventeenth weeks of the intermediate phase. Every fifth lesson is a review. The objective of the intermediate phase is to enable the student to distinguish and use the most essential structures of French. The approach is audio-lingual and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Audiolingual Skills, Dialogs (Language), French
Bolus, Roger; And Others – 1980
The principal objective of this part of the multimethod Head Start bilingual/bicultural curriculum evaluation (Juarez and Associates, 1980) was to determine the effectiveness of four early childhood bilingual/bicultural curriculum models developed for Spanish-speaking children. The eight programs assessed had implemented the Alerta, Amanecer,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Concept Formation
PDF pending restorationAraman, Bonnie D. – 1976
Twenty English-Japanese bilingual subjects were given the following reading tasks: timed, silent reading of passages in English and Japanese followed by comprehension tests and recognition of tachistoscopic presentations of twenty words in each language. The amount of reading the subjects had done in English and Japanese was assessed in an…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, College Students, English (Second Language)
Canney, George; Winograd, Peter – 1979
Advancing the thesis that a student develops a schema for reading in the same manner as schemata for other classes of things, events, and situations are developed, this paper contends that knowledge of "what reading is" should have a potent influence on how and when a person utilizes reading skills and strategies to extract information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories
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 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: children's development of syntactic aspects of reading comprehension, the relative contributions of the individual and the text in the comprehension and retention…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Connected Discourse
