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Vendrell, Shirley – 1982
This package is designed to assist teachers in the implementation of the "ESL Lesson Guide," which has been incorporated into this document. The package provides ideas for activities that teachers can incorporate into ESL lessons, with a minimum of preparation time and effort. Materials and supplies required are basically those which teachers have…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Daniel, Mark – 1981
Age and regional differences in English Vocabulary scores are examined. The ages studied range from fourteen years through adulthood. The regions identified are Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and Southwest. Scores were found to increase from age fourteen through the twenties, leveling off in the early thirties. The highest average increase…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, English
Hillerich, Robert L. – 1978
Intended for teachers, authors, and publishers of children's educational materials, this book presents a list of words used by elementary school children in their creative or uncontrolled writing. The list is based on the writing samples of approximately 3,000 children, grades one through six, that were collected during a one-year period.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Usage
Cronnell, Bruce; And Others – 1977
The steps taken in compiling lists of technical terms for use in vocabulary instruction in the six subject areas of communication skills, science, music, social science, mathematics, and art are specified in this paper. The steps outlined included selecting words from both teacher and student textbooks at the kindergarten through grade six levels;…
Descriptors: Art, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Devine, Thomas G. – 1979
Some general suggestions for the teaching of mathematics study skills are provided in this paper. The suggestions offered are as follows: (1) teach the specialized mathematical vocabulary directly, (2) show students how the mathematical symbol system works, (3) give practice in understanding graphics, (4) give practice in spotting unstated…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics, Mathematics Materials
Download full textDissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1979
This is the third and last unit in a series designed to provide the Spanish-speaking child with a complete language arts and reading program for grades 1-3. It focuses on the development of decoding, encoding, comprehension, and interpretation skills. This third grade workbook, one component of the language arts unit, contains 22 chapters with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Comprehension
BLATT, MURIEL; WILKINSON, JEAN – 1967
TEACHING A CLASS HOW TO READ AN ESSAY INCLUDES LISTENING, DISCUSSING, AND WRITING, IN ADDITION TO READING. IN THEIR LITERATURE COURSES, THE AUTHORS BEGIN THE PROCESS AT THE FIRST MEETING, USING EITHER THE PRESCRIBED TEXT OR DUPLICATED MATERIALS. PRELIMINARY READING BY THE CLASS IS FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION BASED ON STUDENT QUESTIONS, ANALYSIS, AND…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Essays, Reading Development
GUERRA, EMILIO L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE SIX PAPERS COLLECTED IN THIS VOLUME DISCUSS CHANGES WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN RECENT YEARS. THE PRINCIPAL PRESENTATION MADE AT THE CONFERENCE, "SOME THOUGHTS ON PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE," BY W. FREEMAN TWADDELL, DEALS PRIMARILY WITH THE PROBLEMS FACING THE PROGRAMER WHO WORKS WITH PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Conferences, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Luere, Jeane – 1980
Vocabulary words frequently used in the media and popular literature can be taught by using a modified foreign language laboratory method whereby the students are introduced to the words aurally. First the students are read a concocted paragraph that incorporates the new vocabulary. This is followed by repetition in which the paragraph or dialogue…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Kayra-Stuart, Fortunee – 1980
Forty-five children drawn equally from nursery school, kindergarten, and first grade were administered a nonverbal imitation task, a production task, a comprehension task, and a verbal imitation task. The results of the four tasks support the Temporal Complexity Hypothesis, which states that the components of temporality--order among events (O),…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Newmark, Leonard; And Others – 1980
This self-instructional book is designed for students interested in learning to speak present-day standard Albanian. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a teacher or with tape recordings that can serve as a model for oral/aural exercises. The 30 units provide material for about 180 hours of study. Each unit consists of five parts: (1)…
Descriptors: Albanian, Dialogs (Language), Independent Study, Pronunciation Instruction
McCourt-Lewis, Anne A. – 1980
Taking a psycholinguistic approach, this paper presents an overview of vocabulary and word identification instruction. Sources for instructional procedures are discussed rather than detailed suggestions for teaching procedures. Five approaches to word identification are examined: sight vocabulary development, phonic analysis, structural analysis,…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Instruction
McCormick, Sandra – 1976
This study compared syntactic complexity and vocabulary diversity in two groups of books that can be used for reading aloud to preschool children: books recommended by authorities in reading and children's literature for reading aloud and "grocery store" books (small, inexpensive picture books that can be purchased in grocery stores).…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Oral Reading
Cembalo, M. – 1970
This is an analysis of the linguistic problems posed by vocabulary instruction in an introductory English course. Three criteria should govern any method chosen for the teaching of vocabulary in an introductory course in English as a second language: (1) semantic relations within the lexicon; (2) vocabulary progression independent of grammar and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Wolfe, Rosemary Fanti – 1975
The effects of two methods of teaching a reading vocabulary on writing vocabulary in student compositions were investigated: the teaching of a specific reading vocabulary with students' practice of words in sentences and the teaching of a specific reading vocabulary with students' practice of words in multiple-choice exercises. The retention of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
