Stressing the vast resources available to students living in the country, this article describes a teaching technique for creative writing that includes a structured process in which occurrences are creatively transformed into a finished literary product. (SB)

A training course for negotiators is presented, based upon models of learning processes, negotiation behaviors, and learner expectations. Course structure, the importance of practice and feedback, the place of concept formation, and evaluation are discussed. (SK)

Curriculum methods and materials need to address the values, individual traits, and learning styles of the handicapped child with racial or ethnic differences. (SBH)

Describes five strategies that foster independent learning of content area vocabulary. (MKM)

The concept of school curriculum in science and mathematics is discussed and related to the structures of the disciplines and theory developments. Recent epistemological studies on theory dynamics (Kuhn, Sneed) are put into context with the understanding of learning processes. (Author/MK)

Presents points relevant to learning skills in the areas of observation and perception. Indicates that a knowledge of the categories into which stimuli may be sorted may provide a framework for perception. The interpretation of perception is based on preciously learned knowledge, intellectual skills and cognitive strategies, and mental set. (GS)

In order to ensure the effectiveness of instruction on a new topic, teachers must help students recall prior "prerequisite" learning. The type of learning to be recalled varies with the type of learning outcome expected. (RJG)

There is a current trend toward matching the style of teaching with the cognitive style of the individual student. (JD)

Defining effective college level teaching is hampered by the lack of experimentally obtained data about the relationships between teacher behaviors and student learning. (JD)

The keyword method of foreign vocabulary learning was studied in five experiments. This method proved superior to challenging control conditions when subjects had to produce English responses, given foreign equivalents. In one experiment a hint of facilitated foreign word recall was produced by the keyword method. (Author/RD)

Attitudes toward and approaches to error in language learning depend on one's point of view: strictly linguistic, pedagogical, or that of the learner. This last approach is that "one learns by making mistakes," and from that perspective, there is no absolute definition of error, but only an operative one. (MSE)

Focusing on the ST-ART shorthand theory presentation method, this article discusses the following principles of language-motor skill acquisition: mental practice, symbol-sound association, verbal mediation, recitation and articulation, hierarchy of habits, overlearning, learner anxiety, sense modality, guided practice, kinesthetic imagery, visual…

Encoding voice information is a cognitively effortful, age sensitive process. For older adults, enhanced voice encoding under the intentional condition, relative to the incidental condition, was accompanied by a significant decrement in sentence recall. The age difference apparently reflects the diminished processing capacity of older adults.…

The amount of learning will be primarily affected by the quality of the student's questioning. If the student is passive, the internship will become only a part-time job or a training experience. But if the student is an active, constructive questioner, he/she will be participating in the central mission of higher education. (LRA)

Argues that the capacity to read and derive benefit from literature involves an interaction of at least three related abilities--aesthetic reading, reflecting, and problem solving. Offers an inquiry approach to teaching literature as one way to promote student development of these abilities. (RL)