Discusses belief that foreign language teachers, with help and cooperation from better language learners, can help less successful students increase their competency. Teachers must take student personality and cognition variables into account. (Author/BK)

Describes a case study in adult literacy in which a 57-year-old English speaking immigrant woman who was illiterate was taught to read to a fourth-grade level in a relatively short period of time. Describes the instructional method, which involved the use of psycholinguistically derived materials. (FL)

Describes the experience of three American children learning French in a francophone environment. Discusses the patterns of French language use that emerged during their first year in Paris, identifying four distinct stages, and suggests criteria for measuring learners' success. Emphasizes communication and functional language skills rather than…

A teacher training program includes the production of filmed and taped episodes demonstrating each category of decision in effective teaching and a diagnostic prescriptive observation instrument of the process of teaching. (Author/MLF)

The substantial use of educational television by the Open University has not yet taken advantage of the potential for interactive learning through use of video replay. The traditional broadcast format has predominated. (MSE)

Stressing the vast resources available to students living in the country, this article describes a teaching technique for creative writing that includes a structured process in which occurrences are creatively transformed into a finished literary product. (SB)

A training course for negotiators is presented, based upon models of learning processes, negotiation behaviors, and learner expectations. Course structure, the importance of practice and feedback, the place of concept formation, and evaluation are discussed. (SK)

Curriculum methods and materials need to address the values, individual traits, and learning styles of the handicapped child with racial or ethnic differences. (SBH)

Describes five strategies that foster independent learning of content area vocabulary. (MKM)

The concept of school curriculum in science and mathematics is discussed and related to the structures of the disciplines and theory developments. Recent epistemological studies on theory dynamics (Kuhn, Sneed) are put into context with the understanding of learning processes. (Author/MK)

Presents points relevant to learning skills in the areas of observation and perception. Indicates that a knowledge of the categories into which stimuli may be sorted may provide a framework for perception. The interpretation of perception is based on preciously learned knowledge, intellectual skills and cognitive strategies, and mental set. (GS)

In order to ensure the effectiveness of instruction on a new topic, teachers must help students recall prior "prerequisite" learning. The type of learning to be recalled varies with the type of learning outcome expected. (RJG)

There is a current trend toward matching the style of teaching with the cognitive style of the individual student. (JD)

Defining effective college level teaching is hampered by the lack of experimentally obtained data about the relationships between teacher behaviors and student learning. (JD)

The keyword method of foreign vocabulary learning was studied in five experiments. This method proved superior to challenging control conditions when subjects had to produce English responses, given foreign equivalents. In one experiment a hint of facilitated foreign word recall was produced by the keyword method. (Author/RD)