Notes the history of the ERIC indexing vocabulary and the Identifier Cleanup undertaken to reduce scattering in the identifier field. Described in detail is the Vocabulary Improvement Project to review and revise the controlled vocabulary and produce a new Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. (CWM)

A survey indicated that British teachers still use vocabulary learning in second language instruction. These two studies suggested that 11-year-olds are quite capable of using the keyword method, modified for group presentation, to learn English meanings of French words and vice versa, for both immediate and delayed tests. (Author/SJL)

Shares some warnings and positive suggestions about preparing students for the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs). Urges teachers to concentrate on improving students' reading and writing skills rather than have students memorize long lists of big words. (RL)

Suggests specific supplemental techniques and activities which have proven successful in developing oral English skills in non-English speaking pupils. (Author/SJL)

Presents a dice-and-board game for teaching French, designed to solidify vocabulary (dealing with shopping at a store) and to afford practice in certain grammatical structures. (IFS/WGA)

Presents an overview of the PLATO Corrections Project (PCP) in Illinois and Minnesota, and describes recent curriculum development efforts in adult reading comprehension and vocabulary development. Data collected on student/instructor usage, attitudes, and achievement demonstrate that the PCP system is feasible, attractive, and effective in…

Suggestions are made for a five-day cycle of activities that can be used with primary students to reinforce language from stories they've dictated. Some activities are teacher-directed, while others can be completed independently. The activities can also be adapted to group-dictated stories. (Author/SJL)

Describes two teaching procedures, one designed to combine word recognition practice with syntactic (word order) skill development, the other designed to help children develop sequencing comprehension. (AEA)

A multiple-choice test, involving college students, showed that an ability to recognize biological terms was to some extent independent of the ability to understand the ideas to which they referred. Thus, there could be an appreciation of biological concepts and principles in the absence of the accepted vocabulary. (BB)

If children are to love themselves and others, they must experience love early. And they need to be taught the value of love, since it tends to fall victim to other lesser emotions. Provides suggestions for helping young children to grow in love. (Author/RK)

This article offers insights into mnemonic strategies ("mental elaboration") of foreign-language learners, with implications for vocabulary learning in the target language. (DB)

Noting the need for vocational agriculture teachers to pre-teach vocabulary and concepts which would block student understanding, practical suggestions are offered for developing students reading and vocabulary skills. (HD)

Presents five steps within a structured plan for motivating students to read widely, thus increasing their vocabularies. (JM)

Examined young children's language productivity with newly learned forms by teaching them four new words: two nouns and two verbs. Findings indicate children combined the novel nouns productively with already known words much more often than they did the novel verbs--by many orders of magnitude and several children pluralized the new nouns,…

Reviews and evaluates some of the different ways in which the term "hedge" has been understood and defined in the literature. The article suggests that "hedge" is more usefully reserved for expressions of epistemic modality, or markers of provisionality as attached to new knowledge claims. (20 references) (Author/CK)