Describes a study which sought to determine what strategies beginning and intermediate students of English as a second language used in learning a number of language tasks. Teachers were interviewed to detect their familiarity with student strategies and to determine whether they introduce strategies to their students during instruction. (SED)

Discusses what it is about home learning that creates a need for study skills improvement and the study skills required for successful home learning (information processing and personal skills, and support strategies). The role and responsibilities of educational technologists in helping learners to acquire effective study skills are considered.…

Discusses the status of environmental education at the primary level in Sudan, reviews the objectives, content, methodology, and evaluation strategies of an environmental education program that was implemented with primary age students. Reports that pupil improvement in scholastic achievement and behavior followed after participation in the…

Describes six strategies for teaching vocabulary: exclusion brainstorming, knowledge rating, connect two, semantic feature analysis and semantic gradients, concept ladder, and predict-o-gram. (HOD)

This review encompasses the present status, development, and background of conversation theory (CT) and of a protolanguage, Lp, which is its formal dual. Included are discussions of CT methodology, results obtained using CT and related methods, present epistemological status of CT and of Lp, and ongoing theoretical and empirical research. (MBR)

Suggests adapted teaching strategies that can help meet the deaf students' special needs in reading. (FL)

The relationship between cognitive style and academic performance was examined in a study of first- and third-grade students. The research focused on the differences in academic achievement of field-dependent-independent children and differences affected by sex and grade level. Results are presented. (DF)

Three major views of intelligence are compared and evaluated: the psychometric, the Piagetian, and the information-processing. The educational implications of each view for training content knowledge and intellectual skills are considered. How each view would approach training students in solving verbal analogies is discussed. (Author/BS)

Discusses the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures involved in designing, setting up, and operating microcomputer programs for grading essays written by students in college English courses. (RBW)

Outlines Bleich's theory of subjective criticism and traces its roots in the work of the psychoanalytic critic Norman N. Holland. Suggests that the subjective criticism approach to literature can help elicit student response in the classroom and initiate discussions of value questions which literature inevitably raises. (RBW)

Concludes that prediction making should not be used solely as a teaching strategy, but also as a learning strategy. (FL)

Offers strategies to use when students are not able to achieve a high level of accuracy in story reading. (FL)

Describes a planning model (PLAE--preplan, list, activate, evaluate) that provides a practical and flexible guide in how to determine one's own learning tasks, how to select and schedule the most appropriate study strategies for those tasks, and how to activate and evaluate a plan in terms of its efficiency and effectiveness. (HOD)

Misspellings by first through fifth grade students were classified as to probable underlying spelling strategies. An overall shift strategy from sound to print was reflected in fifth grade errors independent of word difficulty. (FL)

Describes a "thinking strand" in social studies instruction in a New Jersey school district. An inservice training program enables teachers to apply critical thinking skills in the classroom, actively engaging students through the use of debates, case studies, and problem-solving activities. (TE)