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Download full textEdiger, Marlow – 2002
Vocabulary development is essential for a student to become a good reader. By learning new words in terms of meaning and use, the student can increase his/her listening, speaking, reading, and writing vocabularies. A student may increase vocabulary development when communicating informally with others or formally within a classroom setting. This…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Instruction, Social Studies
PDF pending restorationGriffee, Dale T.; Templin, Stephen A. – 1997
A study investigated the effect of assigning difficult, specific goals on a 50-item vocabulary test to Japanese high school students of English as a Second Language. Subjects were five intact ESL classes (n=190 students) divided into experimental and control groups. A vocabulary-recognition matching pretest was administered to all subjects. After…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, High Schools
Henderson, Jacqueline – 2001
The purpose of this study was to determine if third-grade students could learn vocabulary incidentally through silent reading and by listening to stories read aloud as well as which method would produce the greater gain. Students listened to and read silently a total of 16 stories over the course of 8 weeks. Pretest and posttest scores on multiple…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others
Smith, Carl B., Ed. – 2003
Extensive research in the area of vocabulary development revealed a very limited amount of information on elaboration for writing. Only one article was found that substantiated the need to connect vocabulary with elaborative writing. This topical bibliography and commentary summarizes the findings in that article. The bibliography/ commentary…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Jessica J. – 2002
This study was performed to determine whether graphic organizers or traditional methods were a more effective way of instructing and assessing vocabulary development. The traditional methods included instructing with the use of context clues and/or dictionary use, and assessing with the use of matching, cloze passages, and/or fill-ins. A group of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Graphic Organizers
Nakanishi, Yasuko; Owada, Kenjiro – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Grammar, Imitation
Kemmner, Ernst – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1973
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Films, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedHoover, Robinette Curry – American Annals of the Deaf, 1972
A teacher relates her use of the Henry cartoon to encourage the use of more natural language in an almost totally manual class of deaf elementary school children. (GW)
Descriptors: Cartoons, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
Duwell, Henning – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1972
Descriptors: Classification, French, Instructional Design, Language Instruction
Lubke, Diethard – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1972
Descriptors: Definitions, French, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedEichhoff, Jurgen – Unterrichtspraxis, 1972
Descriptors: Dialects, German, German Literature, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedSally, Ovaize – English Language Teaching, 1973
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Educational Media, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Gutknecht, Bruce A. – Elementary English, 1973
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Oral Reading, Pattern Recognition, Phonics
Walls, Nina – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1972
This brief overview of some vocabulary control schemes in non-scientific fields is intended to suggest that the complexity of the design problem increases with the newness of the field involved. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Classification, Coordinate Indexes, Indexing, Information Processing
Peer reviewedFunk, Hal D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1972
Suggestions are offered to give direction to classroom teachers who desire to turn their spelling program around and provide meaningful instruction based on the written communication needs of each student. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Elementary School Curriculum, Instructional Improvement, Pretests Posttests
