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Weaver, Susan W.; Rutherford, William L. – Elementary English, 1974
A hierarchy of listening skills composed of environmental skills, discrimination skills, and comprehension skills can be used by teachers to develop an effective language arts program that includes an awareness of the stages of auditory perception. (JH)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading
Sewell, Penny – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
The typical day of a student travelling in France is outlined, with discussion of the different types of language he would be exposed to. Ways in which classroom teaching can provide similar experience are suggested, and abilities involved in listening and reading which are not language-specific are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Content, French, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Johnson, Richard L.; George, Thomas W. – Tennessee Education, 1975
A sequential, developmental plan for teaching reading via the auditory process is discussed. (JC)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Auditory Training
Loveland, Katherine A.; And Others – 1989
Sixteen subjects with autism and 16 with Down Syndrome (aged 5 to 27), matched on verbal mental age, watched a short puppet show or video skit and were then asked to tell the story to a listener and answer follow-up questions. The majority of both groups were able to produce recognizable, though primitive, narratives. The groups did not differ in…
Descriptors: Autism, Body Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Pino, Barbara Gonzalez – 1989
The concept of comprehensible input in second language learning is applied to the teaching of English as a Second Language. Techniques for teacher adaptation of materials and classroom presentation are outlined. The first step is assembly of topic-appropriate pictures and the production of simple third-person statements to accompany them. Leisure…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Ringeling, Tobi – 1990
Second language students often fail to pick up sequences of sounds correctly, not because they can not recognize the sounds in questions but because they make incorrect generalizations or lack general mental agility. Listening in a foreign language is more concerned with vocabulary knowledge and expectation than with phoneme recognition. One…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
Beach, Sara Ann – 1990
A study examined the construct and predictive validity of phonemic awareness to determine the strength of the relationship between phonemic segmentation and auditory abstraction and to determine which of the two measures provided the best prediction of word recognition ability. Data were gathered from 65 first-grade children from 2 public…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Grade 1, Listening Comprehension, Multiple Regression Analysis
Anderson, Thomas H.; Armbruster, Bonnie B. – 1986
Using the conceptual frameworks of "levels of processing" and "transfer appropriate processing," the research literature on listening and notetaking was interpreted. Based on these frameworks, implications for encoding and external storage hypotheses are presented and critiqued. The report concludes that there is a potential…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Learning Processes
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1983
This report presents an evaluation of the third and final year of Project Speak, funded under Part B of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Project Speak was initiated to stimulate the language development of preschool handicapped children through direct instruction and parent training. The program provided home-based language…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Disabilities, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Leavell, Carol; Lewandowski, Lawrence – 1989
This study addressed the left hemisphere deficiency hypothesis, associated with reading disability, by accounting for attention and examining the relationship between dichotic listening results and neuropsychological deficits. Twenty reading-disabled (RD) and 20 non-reading-disabled (NRD) boys, aged 8-12, were administered the Verbal Dichotic…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis
Illinois Speech and Theatre Association. – 1982
Intended to help school districts or classroom teachers develop and implement listening skills programs, this manual begins by stressing the importance of listening instruction and of the preparatory phase of listening readiness. This information is followed by a discussion of teaching assumptions about listening behavior that have been supported…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Interpersonal Relationship
Harvey, T. Edward – 1981
Standard assumptions and teaching strategies must be discarded when working with international students on the university level. The problems faced by international students are exacerbated by archaic curriculum designs for reading courses. Students have often been expected to negotiate literary masterworks after only three semesters in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
Haley, Gay Lyons – 1980
Black preschoolers were studied for the effects of memory enhancing training strategies, socioeconomic status, and the order of free and cued recall on story comprehension. The study also tested the utility of Kintsch's expository text analysis procedures in describing the structure of children's stories and children's oral recall of stories. In…
Descriptors: Blacks, Listening Comprehension, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Singler, John Victor; And Others – 1981
The aim of this text is to introduce Liberian English, which includes the many varieties of English spoken by Liberians, to Peace Corps volunteers. The text is divided into two sections. The first part talks about Liberian English, while the second part uses Liberian English to describe aspects of contemporary Liberian culture. Part one contains…
Descriptors: African Languages, Cultural Education, Dialogs (Language), Grammar
Scholz, George E.; Scholz, Celeste M. – 1979
In an effort to learn at which level of language proficiency English for Special Purposes can be taught effectively to nonnative speakers, 50 students at an electronics institute in Algeria were administered eight tests after a 16-week intensive English course. Four of the tests were of skills in English as a second language (ESL): the grammar…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Electronics, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
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