This report discusses a project that adapted new automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology to provide real-time speech-to-text transcription as a support service for students who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH). In this system, as the teacher speaks, a hearing intermediary, or captionist, dictates into the speech recognition system in a…

The Open University of Israel (OUI) is a distance learning university. Learning is based mainly on textbooks and meetings with tutors in learning centers throughout the country. However, these meetings sometimes do not materialize. Synchronous virtual tutorials, via satellite communication from a studio at the university to classrooms throughout…

A study recorded the experiences of elementary school students with cooperative learning in two schools in Singapore. The students worked cooperatively in various assigned social studies tasks through the process of social interaction and sharing with their peers. One school was used as the experimental school while the other served as the…

Papers from a conference on the role of language in the academic achievement of African Americans include: "Language Diversity and Academic Achievement in the Education of African American Students: An Overview of the Issues" (John R. Rickford); "The Language of African American Students in Classroom Discourse" (Courtney B.…

At a time when children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds represent the fastest growing school-age population in the United States, too many of these children are failing in school science and mathematics. This report discusses the events and recommendations of the Children's Ways with Words in Science and Mathematics…

Invitational education maintains that people respond best when they are invited to feel valuable, able, and responsible, and that teachers can transmit verbal and nonverbal messages that promote positive student reactions. An overview of the concept is presented, and four types of behavior of physical education teachers and their effects are…

Describes a vocational education teacher training program emphasizing improvement in verbal interactions in the classroom. Samples of behavior were recorded on time sample recorders, and feedback was provided to teachers using the Flanders system of verbal interaction analysis. Study results indicate that this instructional model is valid and…

Considers the formal education of a group of Native American students who have not traditionally done well in school and suggests a cultural mismatch between the home culture of these students and the culture of the Western school. Findings indicate that culture influences discourse styles, expectations for classroom behavior, and classroom social…

Proposes an approach to teaching reasoning through classroom conversation that integrates group work around computers into curriculum-related activities. The article examines research on collaborative learning and describes a program in which the computer is used to direct children's explicit, joint reasoning in curriculum-related activities. (79…

Proposes a framework for computer assisted language learning that takes the target interaction as its starting point. To ascertain the practical usefulness of the framework, classroom research was carried out and the interaction was evaluated. (33 references) (CK)

Professors need to learn to work with Muslim students, now a significant proportion of the student population, and particularly those for whom English is a second language. Interviews with Muslim students revealed four classroom problem areas: teachers' misrepresentation of Islamic practices; instructional materials misrepresenting Islam; lack of…

Female students participate less often and less assertively than males students in college classrooms, and teachers' discriminatory behaviors are partly responsible. Two in-class surveys assessed student perceptions of student-teacher interaction. Suggests that creating a better classroom climate for female students creates a better learning…

Reviews some of the author's own mistakes and successes to help guide other writers and teachers interested in projects in which they collaborate with a visual artist to improve students' writing skills and visual art ability. (MG)

Ten principles of interactive language teaching and learning link language pedagogy today with that of fifty years ago. Topics discussed include: (1) student as language learner; (2) language learning and teaching; (3) classroom communication; (4) knowledge and control of language; (5) testing; and (6) scope of language teaching. (MSE)

Examines second-grade teachers' responses to students' answers in the questioning phase of reading lessons. Identifies eight response types: the null rejoinder; explicit evaluation; repetition of student's response; elaboration; and combinations of the last three types. Finds negligible differences among teachers' responses to readers of varying…