The paper illustrates practical and cost-effective ways students can share responsibility in delivering instruction, preparing materials, assessing progress, recordkeeping, and improving motivation. (CL)

Discusses two questions any language-teaching approach has to consider: (1) the component of a language on which to focus; and (2) how the linguistic material can be acquired more efficiently than in the past. Five principles for efficient acquisition of 5,000 vocabulary words are outlined, and the RALEX approach is explained. (SED)

Three vehicles for programming for computer-assisted language instruction are compared: general-purpose programming languages, educational programming languages, and educational authoring systems. Their advantages and disadvantages for a variety of purposes and circumstances are examined as well as the differences in time and energy required for…

Outlines strategies for teaching listening comprehension which can be adapted to foreign language programs. The initial stage is to make the students aware of the skill of listening for comprehension. Then follows strategies that demand purposeful reactions from the students, including instruction activities, command activities, personal-choice…

Suggests use of selected readings from library books as bases for self-study training courses. (JT)

A developmental testing phase preceded validation testing of materials for the eighth grade students at Rock Creek School. The resulting program was able to help 90 percent of the students meet the course objects with 100 percent accuracy. (JY)

The guidelines suggested in this article have evolved from the development of nationally distributed instructional systems over the past seven years at SWRL, a National Institute of Education-sponsored educational research and development laboratory. (Author)

Characteristics of an effective sensory aid for the hearing impaired child are reviewed, the development of educational aids is traced, and a computer-assisted instructional program with a sensory interface is seen as the next step in the advancement of technology with the hearing impaired. (SB)

Over the last year the J. Paul Getty Trust's Web presence has evolved from a group of disparate, independently maintained Web sites into a homogeneous consistently branded one. This transformation recently culminated with the implementation of a leading Content Management System (CMS). There were and are many process-changes and challenges in…

This paper proposes a new multilingual dictionary, to be created under the auspices of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) that will cover the terms and concepts of cataloging. The first section provides some examples that demonstrate the necessity for such a dictionary. The second section lists the following…

Presents a list of English physical chemistry textbooks together with the names of authors, publishers, and publication cities, appearing during the period from 1877 to 1922. (CC)

Describes achievement of General Learning Corporation to illustrate the place of technology in education. (DS)

Described are an adult education class for visually handicapped prison inmates and a program in which volunteer inmates transcribed books and educational materials for the visually handicapped. (GW)