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Wilson, Michael – Educational Television International, 1970
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Educational Programs, Educational Radio

Pearson-Davis, Susan – Children's Theatre Review, 1983
Examines how old age is portrayed in 35 popular plays for children. Suggests ways children's theatre can help children form positive attitudes on aging. (PD)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Characterization, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature

Zukow, Patricia Goldring – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Basic manual transcription procedure is outlined and three methods of generating transcripts are considered separately: completely manual preparation, manual and computer combined, and online processing and monitoring by computer. Factors such as initial equipment investment, person hours, cost of copying and modifying transcripts, and reduction…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Costs, Equipment, Error Patterns

Liberman, Michael – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses the results of an examination of the scripts used in eight television programs popular with teenagers that indicate that viewers are exposed to short, simple sentences and largely unsophisticated language structures. (AEA)
Descriptors: Language Enrichment, Language Research, Language Usage, Programing (Broadcast)

Potter, Rosemary Lee – Social Education, 1982
Discusses ways that elementary social studies teachers can use television as a teaching tool. Book tie-ins, actual television scripts, the magazine, "Teachers Guide to Television," the use of materials on critical viewing skills, and the production of television shows on videocassettes by students are examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Books, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Film Production

Szabo, Michael; Lamiell-Landy, Ann – Journal of Educational Research, 1981
This study focused on whether reading instruction based on popular youth-oriented television programs increases task involvement or reading achievement scores. After one year, reading scores of classes using television scripts, in addition to regular materials, were significantly higher than those of nontreatment classes. (JN)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Popular Culture, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Kanin, Fay; Wagner, Robert W. – Journal of the University Film Association, 1980
Presents a sample of college and university screenwriting programs for writers and directors. Includes opinions of faculty and professionals in the field of writing on the specific objectives of screenwriting courses, as well as methods of teaching. (JMF)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Film Study, Films, Higher Education
Camre, Henning; And Others – Journal of the University Film Association, 1980
Describes the Danish Film School's program in screenwriting. Three faculty members offer insights into their objectives in teaching and the emphasis they each place on various aspects of writing. (JMF)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Faculty, Film Study, Foreign Countries

Erickson, Janet C.; Sepehri, Abazar – Library Hi Tech, 1997
Explains the development of standardized coding for digital text, especially for multilingual text, that has culminated in the Unicode standard. Topics include the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative (HTI); a history of character sets; transliteration; non-Roman languages; fonts; and barriers to adoption of the Unicode standard. A…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Coding, Data Conversion, Glossaries

O'Day, Shannon – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
A teacher describes using melodrama as a way to combine the elements of humor and drama to engage the imaginations of young gifted children. Techniques for use with elementary through junior high students are presented along with the script of a play for first or second graders, with the last lines left blank for students to supply their own…
Descriptors: Acting, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education

Hartley, Andrew James – Theatre Topics, 2001
Argues that the construction of a performance script permits the modification of the original text in order to render that original theatrically communicative in the present. Notes that the dominant concerns of script modification are in how to negotiate audience expectations. Describes three types of textual deviation: nonverbal alteration;…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Drama, Higher Education, Language Usage

Tibbs, Pat – Journal of Reading, 1989
Argues that video technology can provide a motivational tool for learning and practicing language arts skills. Describes the steps in a video production process as analogous to the steps in the writing process. (RS)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Process Approach (Writing), Scripts
Brazeau, Martin H. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1995
Provides a guide for helping students perform melodramas via the intercom. The benefits include motivating students to read and heightening student self-esteem. Suggests five elements for a successful performance: a clearly written script, rehearsals, optimal voice levels and microphone distance, an introduction by the principal, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatics, Guides, Microphones

LoMonico, Michael – English Journal, 1995
Describes some of the Shakespeare software available to educators. Explains some of its applications in the secondary school language arts classroom. Shows how Shakespeare texts on disc allow students to cut sections of the play to enhance their own performances (for example, a 20-minute version of "Much Ado About Nothing") and how…
Descriptors: Acting, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Drama

Xie, Tianwei – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
Results of an empirical study of the learners' language of a group of Chinese language students show that topic-controlled deletion is a prominent feature in Chinese that is distinctly different from English and that it may result in English speakers' difficulty in forming Chinese topic chains. (nine references) (LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Non Roman Scripts