The responses of 84 children (42 in kindergarten and 42 in first grade) while trying to identify sight words that were similar in sound (bowl/pole), similar in sound and shape (boat/boot), or dissimilar (cup/moon) yielded information about phonetic composition as a source of information by which beginning readers identify sight words. The…

The effectiveness of an Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I preschool education program, which stressed listening habits and language skills, on disadvantaged children in kindergarten and first grade was examined. Graduates and nongraduates were administered The Boehm Test of Basic Skills and a teacher completed adjustment rating…

The program outlined in this document has been based on the premises that the communication skills form the basis for achievement in other areas and are interwoven with personal development and self-concept, and that working on language development involves increasing children's abilities to use sounds, the structure of the language, grammatical…

This volume contains achievement tests designed for American students studying Persian at the elementary level. They are constructed on the basis of materials related to course syllabi. Preceding the tests, the sources of the test data are reviewed and the main ones are listed. The allocation of points in each section of the test syllabus is…

Six simulation games for English instruction in the classroom are offered in this book, the aim of which is to encourage communication. In simulation games, rules are structured to correspond to those that are an integral part of a real situation, with supporting documentation replicating actual materials pertinent to the situation. The contents…

This two volume curriculum guide describes an English program for grades eight through twelve. The guide begins with four essays on the teaching of English. The first essay deals with some of the problems of a changing English curriculum; the second discusses goals for the language arts program; the third discusses the teaching of writing in the…

In an effort to teach all children to read as early as possible, educators are failing to teach the basic prerequisites. A model identifies the basic prerequisites for the development of reading skills in young children and suggests a hierarchy of goal acquisitions. The prerequisites are: (1) language development and verbal meaning, (2) perceptual…

This study was designed to examine the ability of 256 above-average sixth-grade pupils to use six categories of verbal context clues in listening and reading. The extent to which success in determining deleted words was associated with the word form class membership of deleted words was also examined. A hierarchy of difficulty was established for…

Two experiments were performed to determine whether using the time saved by the time compression process to repeat or extend information presented by audio tapes would increase the amount learned by listening to rapid speech. Neither repeating nor extending information improved learning over that obtained by listening to uncompressed information…

The complexity of the problems concerning the teaching of English to Puerto Ricans in the United States has rarely been fully appreciated. The author discusses some factors involved: (1) Learners may be admitted to school at any age and placed in advanced grades with their age peers; (2) Some older learners may be functionally illiterate in their…

The book presents and discusses techniques ministers and laymen can use to bring about personal growth and social change, and to devise tactics for dealing with today's major social problems. Among the many matters specifically discussed are: how personal growth can best be facilitated; requirements for creative relationships in families and small…

This report outlines the revised form of a program developed at the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (University of Tokoyo) for testing students' pronunciation and comprehension abilities, and discusses some refinements which have been made in the general approach. (See AL 002 685 for a description of the basic program.) Under this…

Included in this document are (1) guidelines for elective secondary English programs which provide class designs for reading, writing, listening, speaking, and language instruction; (2) objectives and guiding principles for language arts instruction, K-12; (3) the Jefferson High School Language Arts elective program philosophy and requirements in…

This experiment was designed to study the value of oral response as opposed to nonoral response in learning by kindergarten children. Approximately 108 kindergarten children were used. About 80 of them were placed in the two experimental groups (that is, the oral and nonoral groups), and the others were placed in a control group. Phase I involved…

A total of 298 children defined as corrective and remedial were in Listen Look Learn (LLL) classes during 1967-68. Available as controls were 104 children of a similar type, according to the cooperating school administrators; the latter were in classes which used basal materials. The largest group of children, and the group for which reasonably…