This book attempts to present a consensus about the teaching of English in junior high and middle schools (students aged 8-13). The book is concerned with presenting a theoretical framework and an indication of where to begin and how to proceed with the teaching of English. Chapters deal with various aspects of English, including poetry, fiction,…

This study was designed to explore two questions: do a listener's reactions differ by media; and do variables such as credibility, saliency, and recall function independently in realistic rhetorical situations? The study was designed to investigate listening variables as they function in field communication situations through the use of…

The objectives of this study were to determine the effect post-adjunct questions exert on: learning from oral and written instruction, learning by high and low ability readers, and learning material which requires different levels of intellectual processing. No significant main effects occurred between question and no-question groups. Post-adjunct…

Instructional television is said not to have achieved its potential in primary grades because of five major problems, all related to lack of precise information about the communicative effectiveness of instructional presentations in appropriate time frames. The five problems cited and discussed are lack of adequate knowledge of primary children's…

Ninety educable mentally retarded (EMR) adolescents listened to recorded material with and without oral advance organizers in an evaluation of the effectiveness of instructional techniques derived from subsumption learning theory on their learning and retention of meaningful information. Ss were randomly assigned to either an experimental group,…

Assessed were the effects of verbal placeholding and full verbal rehearsal (verbalizing aloud the critical components and sequence) on the direction following behavior of 14 institutionalized retarded adolescents (mean IQ 48). A control group from the same institution participated in practice sessions without the verbal rehearsal stress. Pre- and…

Since the start of the second Five Year Plan (1969-74) in Tanzania, the national focus has been on developing and extending adult education (largely literacy) in general, and rural programs in particular. Systematic program evaluation is needed so that scarce human and financial resources can be used effectively without needless duplication of…

The history of Citizens' Forum in Canada 1943-68 shows how it used a combination of radio, television, study pamphlets, and study groups, and led to many new programing techniques and formats for radio and television. Educational needs engendered by the Depression and World War II are described, along with earlier examples of public affairs…

This paper describes some of the problems pertaining to teaching reading and aural comprehension in English as a second language, suggests some of the potential uses of programed learning in solving them, and reports on some of the approaches developed at the Economics Institute of the University of Colorado. While an increasing amount of adequate…

An account of the relationship of reading to language that depends on a distinction between primary linguistic activity itself--the processes of producing, perceiving, understanding, rehearsing, or recalling speech--and the speaker-hearer's awareness of this activity was proposed at a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health…

This language arts curriculum guide was prepared for use in grades one through three. The English strand of the language arts is based on the "Roberts English Series," the reading on the "Ginn 100 Series," the spelling on "Sound and Sense in Spelling," and the handwriting on the "Noble and Noble Series."…

This study was designed to compare Negro dialect-speaking first graders' comprehension of material presented in standard English and in Negro dialect. Thirty boys and 30 girls from Title 1 schools in a ghetto area were randomly assigned to a standard English or a Negro dialect treatment group after being stratified as male and female and as high,…

The Teacher's Handbook is part of the publication series of the Southeastern Education Laboratory/Project Language (SEL/PL), an 8-year language-centered program designed to alleviate the language deficiencies of disadvantaged children between the ages of four and eleven. For teachers utilizing SEL/PL, the Handbook provides a research summary and…

This one-credit elective course for high school students is divided into two phases: Phase I, Elements of Music, and Phase II, Introduction to the Structure, Materials, and Literature of Music. The focal points of the course involve: (1) the study of theory through analysis of the earliest known musical works to those of the present; (2) the use…

The author discusses a study designed to examine a communications problem from a cognitive processing viewpoint, to determine if a change in the amount of cognitive processing time available to a listener could affect his response to a given message. To specify the internal sources of input brought to a message receiving situation, the author used…