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White, Charles S. – Journal of Education for Business, 2007
Traditional education, employing lectures or telecommunicative instruction methods, has been very effective in providing topical facts. However, the development of student skills and thinking ability require higher levels of instruction and more opportunity to practice and apply acquired knowledge. As students progress through a particular…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Instructional Design, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Faraco, Martine; Kida, Tsuyoshi – IRAL, 1999
Donsiders the role and nature of learning sequences occurring in the second-language classroom situation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Interaction
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Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Responds to Major's (1996) and Ioup's (1996) criticism of this author's theory of language acquisition. The author agrees with both critics that abstract systems of phonology are acquired. He concludes that the proper study of language acquisition is to chart the course by which perceptual, motoric, and cognitive functions induce structure. (31…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Constructivism (Learning)
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Jordan-DeCarbo, Joyce – Music Educators Journal, 1986
Edwin Gordon took the sequential levels of learning outlined by Gagne and adapted them to audiation (the ability to hear music for which the sound is not physically present) and musical learning. His method of teaching music is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
Saxton, Ruth O. – 1987
The implicit assumption behind personal writing assignments given at the beginning of a writing course is that personal essays eliminate the writing apprehension of having nothing to say. However, college freshmen find it very difficult to write about themselves and their own opinions because this writing involves abstract mental processes and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College English, Course Content, Expository Writing