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Coley, Joan D. – 1981
The Reading Enrichment/Achievement Demonstration Project (READ) has provided continuing studies, since 1976, of sustained silent reading programs that use paperback books. The 1980-81 Project READ involved 1,100 young people in the juvenile justice system who attended 25 alternative schools and community-based programs. The public school portion…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Junior High School Students, Nontraditional Education
Johnson, Wallace, Ed. – 1978
This textbook, written in Chinese, is intended for advanced students of the language. It contains a graded selection of writings by some of the most important modern Chinese writers. The lessons, divided into four main groups, present several prose styles of differing complexity. Each lesson has five parts: a short biography of the author, a…
Descriptors: Art, Art History, Chinese, Chinese Culture
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1978
The exercises in the Spanish language workbook are intended to teach comprehension, interpretation, vocabulary, pronunciation, and study skills. The workbook provides one to five pages of reinforcement and follow-up work for each of the stories in the reader of the same title. Exercises stress sentence completion and construction, phonology,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Books, Childrens Literature, Educational Games
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: relationships among attitudes, intelligence, and reading achievement; the purposes and processes of reading as described by elementary school children; evaluating…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Cooper, Barry – 1976
This paper empirically examines one aspect of Basil Bernstein's sociolinguistic account of educational failure, a code thesis wherein a restricted code is defined as giving access only to "particularistic" meanings and an elaborated code is defined as giving access also to "universalistic" meanings. According to Bernstein,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Failure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension
Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Alvarez, Maria Gabriela – 1978
Nonverbal context is important in the language acquisition process. The present study compares different amounts and ordering of pictorial context with respect to their effect on learning word-referent relations in a second language. Twenty-five monolingual English-speaking high school students were shown twenty Spanish sentences and pictures of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues
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 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: alternative views of the English curriculum; development of curriculum theory and language arts; sentence combining; vocabulary development; the effect of music…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1960
Book two, part one, of an intermediate-advanced level German refresher course for college students is presented. The volume consists of 42 lessons of text material and 42 prerecorded tapes. A typical unit is made up of spontaneous dialogues, substitution drills, and tests. A dialogue for listening is a short conversation between German speakers…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language)
BORMUTH, JOHN R. – 1966
IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP ACCURATE FORMULAS FOR PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING THE READABILITY OF LANGUAGE, FIVE BASIC PROBLEMS WERE STUDIED--(1) THE VARIOUS FEATURES OF WRITING STYLE AS LINEARLY RELATED TO COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES, (2) THE CHANGE OF STRENGTHS OF RELATIONSHIPS AS A FUNCTION OF READING ABILITY, (3) READABILITY PREDICTION MADE UPON…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Data Processing, Grade 4, Grade 5
Haeusser, Christiane – Travaux de l'Institut de Phonetique d'Aix, 1978
The test described here is a particular type of diagnostic test; it is part of a series of tests designed to explore systematically areas of potential lexical difficulty in the English language for French-speaking students of English. The lexical units are considered under their formal, morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. The test has…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1969
Volume 7 of the Basic Course in French contains 10 lessons, one for each day of the fourteenth and fifteenth 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, Adverbs, Audiolingual Skills, Dialogs (Language)
Pennock, Clifford, Ed. – 1979
Focusing on reading comprehension instruction at the word, sentence, paragraph, and larger unit levels, the articles in this volume were drawn from a variety of sources. The three articles in the first section deal with theoretical bases and conceptual concerns. Specific topics covered include the argument for a discourse analysis model, the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis
Lightbown, Patsy M. – 1979
This paper is based on a longitudinal study of the development of questions in the spontaneous speech of two anglophone boys learning French by attending French language schools. The development of form-meaning relations in information questions in the children's French L2 speech was examined and comparisons were made with the same form-meaning…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)
Katz, Lilian G., Ed.; And Others – 1979
The ten papers in this volume present integrative reviews, analyses and syntheses of research and development of current concern to early childhood educators. Four papers represent investigations and reports of programmatic or educational activities. House and Hutchins critically analyze Abt Associates' national evaluation of Project Follow…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comprehension, Day Care, Developmental Psychology
Pierson, Dorothy A. – 1979
Aptitude and reading tests to be administered to technical college students are discussed in considering the design of a screening and diagnostic test battery. Diagnosis is condidered as a series of sequential steps: screening; testing; individualized program planning; program implementation; and investigation of the causes of reading difficulty.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
