Teachers can help children understand that sound is caused when something vibrates by using the suggested activities to help teach them to see, hear, and feel the vibrations all around them. Suggests reinforcing the lesson by having the children create musical instruments out of simple materials. (JN)

In a noisy setting, college students (N=40) worked at anagrams and proofreading. Students were assigned to a perceived own control or no control condition and to a constant or increasing rate of exposure. Those who believed their rapid button-pressing produced the silence improved significantly at proofreading but not at anagrams. (Author)

Recent technological advances now make possible the full integration of sound in instructional software. Sounds may gain and focus learner attention, reduce distracting stimuli, and make learning more engaging. In addition, they may help learners condense, elaborate upon, and organize details, highlighting interconnections among new pieces of…

A prototype application called the Fluid Reading Primer was developed to help emergent readers with the process of decoding written words into their spoken forms. The Fluid Reading Primer is part of a larger research project called Fluid Documents, which is exploring the use of interactive animation of typography to show additional information in…

Group activities have become more common in second language instruction. For example, a few years ago I collaborated on a study comparing ESL coursebooks from the 1960s with those from the 1990s (Jacobs, Crookall, & Thiyaragarajali, 1997). My colleagues and I found many more group activities in the latter books. Key support for the increase in…

The Suvag Lingua is a machine used to facilitate better aural perception by working from and on the basis of a student's error in producing a particualr sound and adapting the model which is to be imitated. (DD)

The classroom model Suvag Lingua is intended for collective phonetic correction rather than individual. (DD)

Compares similarities in correcting defective pronunciation in the mother tongue and in a second language. (DD)

Paper presented at the 1st All India Conference of Linguists, Poona, India, December 1970. (DD)

The high degree of predictability of Finnish orthography is reflected in a uniformly high ability of school children by the end of the first grade to pronounce unfamiliar words from their spellings. (Author)

In a survey of school superintendents, 87 percent of the respondents reveal the use of carpeting in instructional areas. (Author)

A comprehensive career education program which uses varieties of audiovisual aids for aurally handicapped students, 4 through 21 years of age, at the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf is described. (MC)

Paper presented at the 17th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Liege, Belgium, July 1971. (DD)