Based on the premise that elementary students must be engaged in frequent reading, writing, and speaking throughout all areas of an integrated curriculum, this book is intended for a first course in language arts for preservice teachers. The book can also be used for courses in which reading and language arts theory and methods are combined. The…

Instruction in business letter-writing, particularly in the context of the business French course, is discussed. First, the kinds of business communications (face-to-face, print, and electronic) currently used are surveyed briefly, and a taxonomy of the content of business communication is presented. Conventions of French business letters are then…

The 1993 issue of this annual journal contains five articles about rural education by rural English teachers. "Rural: The Only Place To Be" (Craig Akey) speaks of a personal commitment to rural education, presents examples of prose and poetry by junior and senior high school students in an innovative "outdoor literature"…

This study investigated whether words that are glossed (defined) in a second language text correspond to the words that readers of differing ability find difficult. It examined: (1) whether marginal glosses provide assistance to students of first-, second-, and third-semester college French in their comprehension of authentic text, as measured by…

Designed to help parents in their important role as their children's most powerful guide to reading and learning, this book contains directions, guidelines, and activities to build a positive environment and a relationship that promotes learning. Chapter titles are: (1) Helping Children with Reading and Learning; (2) Creating Interest and Positive…

A cloze-type procedure can be used effectively to teach interpreters how to anticipate what the speaker will say, inferring communicative intention. The exercise uses a text from which words are deleted, not randomly as in the true cloze procedure, but in significant locations or contexts. The words or groups of words suppressed are progressively…

Educators are now stressing that teaching students to be independent learners who learn to plan, structure and regulate their own learning activities, should be central to instruction. Studying word parts and origins has the potential for metacognitive instruction. Learning about the importance of context clues is also potentially metacognitive,…

One theory of second language acquisition argues that children's competence in a second language is a function of the amount of "comprehensible input" acquirers receive and understand, without formal instruction in reading or grammar. To examine this hypothesis, this study analyzes whether comprehensible input in the form of captioned television…

Developed for Boston high school students, the English objectives in this booklet are presented in a two-column format. General objectives are stated in the left-hand column while specific examples of ways to evaluate student mastery of the objectives are presented in the right. Integrating reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical…

The text for a course in Cebuano, a major language of the Philippines, has five objectives: (1) to learn the sound system and intonation pattern, (2) to master a limited but functional vocabulary through context, (3) to master the basic syntactic structures, (4) to master the basic conversational sentences, and (5) to understand the culture the…

Techniques for teaching collocation and word-association recognition as applied to the English as a second language class are suggested. Collocations are defined as phrases made of words which usually occur together, like "for the time being." Collocations and word associations are treated as synonymous. It is suggested that some words ought to be…

The computer-based reading and study skills curriculum which is described was developed to meet the need for a more efficient and effective means of increasing the reading and study skills of Navy recruits. The parameters specified by the Navy led to the development of a curriculum composed of a modified version of an existing reading curriculum…

The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of basic phonics; word structure (including compound words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, contractions, possessives, and syllables); vocabulary (including word recognition, rhyming words, and word meaning); study skills (including following directions, alphabetizing, and reading a…

The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of basic phonics; word structure (including compound words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, contractions, possessives, and syllables); vocabulary (including word recognition, word meaning, and rhyming words); study skills (including following directions, alphabetizing, and reading a…

The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of basic phonics; word structure (including compound words, prefixes, contractions, possessives, syllabication, word meaning, similes, vocabulary in content areas, analogies, and idioms); study skills (including dictionary skills, using an encyclopedia and index, reading a map, reading…