Phonics, vocabulary, main idea, etc. - the daily paper can make skill-building more fun. (Editor)

The experiment reported here evaluated the effectiveness of a mnemonic procedure, the keyword method, for learning a foreign language vocabulary. (Editor)

Using Atkinson's Keyword Method--an imagery mnemonic for vocabulary learning--as a vehicle, this paper argues that even the most well-reasoned and explainable psychological outcomes need to be validated empirically. The paper provides 12 examples of applications of the keyword method in which an eminently reasonable cognitive outcome was…

Theories of the acquisition of word meaning among children are reviewed and a case study of one child is reported. Three models of how the young child associates words with underlying concepts and conventional meanings are noted. While one model proposes that children initially overextend word meanings, the other two models propose that new words…

Describes an exercise designed to make students aware that the meaning of words is context-dependent and that everyday usages differ in meaning from poetic uses. (RB)

AN EXPERIMENTAL FIRST-GRADE READING PROGRAM EMPHASIZING UNINTERRUPTED STORY READING WAS REPORTED. SUBJECTS CONSISTED OF ONE OF THREE UNSELECTED FIRST GRADES IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. INSTEAD OF USING WORKBOOKS AND HAVING SUCH FORMAL TESTS AS VOCABULARY LISTS AND END-OF-BOOK TESTS, PUPILS READ A NEW STORY EVERY MORNING, REPEATED IT IN THE AFTERNOON…

THE 1926 BUCKINGHAM-DOLCH WORD STUDY WAS REPLICATED TO DETERMINE THE PRESENT-DAY VALIDITY OF THE 1926 BUCKINGHAM-DOLCH LIST. APPROXIMATELY 8,000 CHILDREN IN GRADES 2 THROUGH 6 FROM SIX SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON, WERE ASKED TO LIST ALL THE WORDS THEY COULD THINK OF WITHIN A 15-MINUTE PERIOD. RESPONSES WERE KEY PUNCHED ONTO DATA…

A METHOD OF VOCABULARY STUDY USED AS A TOOL RATHER THAN AS A COMPLETE VOCABULARY PROGRAM HELPS STUDENTS INVESTIGATE ANY WORD AND HELPS CLARIFY KEY OR DIFFICULT WORDS IN AN ASSIGNMENT. THE SEMANTIC LEVELS OF DEFINITION-MAKING ARE EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE TEACHER'S ASKING THE STUDENTS WHAT CLASS OF THINGS A CERTAIN WORD STANDS FOR AND HOW…

THE PUPILS IN A FIRST-GRADE CLASS IN MESA, ARIZONA, MADE THEIR OWN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WORDS THEY COULD READ WHICH WERE NOT IN THE BASAL READERS. THE LIST TOTALED 2,124 WORDS. NOT EVERY CHILD KNEW ALL THE WORDS, BUT SOME KNEW ALL, AND ALL KNEW SOME. THE STUDY IS PRESENTED AS AN ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. TRACE, JR., THAT…

A COMPANION TO THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES OF THE STUDY OF HAUSA SYNTAX, THIS THIRD PART USES NINETEEN SPECIFIC TEXTS TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH THREE TYPES OF WRITTEN HAUSA--PRINTED NARRATIVE, EXTEMPORE NARRATIVE, AND NEWSPAPER TEXTS. (THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES DEAL WITH STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION WORDS, RESPECTIVELY.) THE ENTIRE CORPUS IS APPROXIMATELY…

OPERATION ALPHABET 1 IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF WORKBOOKS PLANNED TO HELP ADULTS LEARN TO READ AND WRITE. EACH OF THE 100 LESSONS DEVELOPS ONE IDEA OF INTEREST TO ADULTS, EMPHASIZING KEY WORDS AND PRACTICE WRITING EXERCISES. WORDS USED IN THE LESSONS ARE DEFINED AT THE END OF THE BOOK. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE FROM NOBLE AND NOBLE, PUBLISHERS,…

OPERATION ALPHABET 2 CONSISTS OF NINETY LESSONS FOR ADULTS LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE, IN TWO VOLUMES. PART ONE CONTAINS LESSONS ONE THROUGH 40. ALTHOUGH THE LESSONS ARE PLACED IN A SEQUENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, EACH VOLUME HAS ITS OWN TABLE OF CONTENTS AND GLOSSARY SO THAT THEY CAN BE USED EITHER SINGLY OR TOGETHER. EACH LESSON CONTAINS NEW WORDS, A…

OPERATION ALPHABET 2 CONSISTS OF NINETY LESSONS FOR ADULTS LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE, IN TWO VOLUMES. PART TWO CONTAINS LESSONS 41 THROUGH 90. ALTHOUGH THE LESSONS ARE PLACED IN A SEQUENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, EACH VOLUME HAS ITS OWN TABLE OF CONTENTS AND GLOSSARY SO THAT THEY CAN BE USED EITHER SINGLY OR TOGETHER. EACH LESSON CONTAINS NEW WORDS, A…

THE USEFULNESS OF PHONIC RULES IN READING INSTRUCTION BEYOND THE FOURTH-GRADE LEVEL WAS INVESTIGATED TO ASCERTAIN IF THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED BY THEODORE CLYMER AND REPORTED IN THE JANUARY 1963 ISSUE OF "THE READING TEACHER" WERE VALID WHEN APPLIED TO A MORE REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF VOCABULARY. LISTS OF ALL POSSIBLE WORDS (FROM A SAMPLE…