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Cook, Guy – ELT Journal, 1997
Challenges the belief in contemporary English language teaching that students should be exposed to authentic or natural language focused on achieving practical purposes, and draws some lessons from the classroom from the way young children play with language. (15 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Childrens Games, Course Content
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Ciochine, John G.; Polivka, Grace – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1997
Describes the use of writing activities as tools for teaching mathematics while helping students develop communication and reasoning skills. Writing takes the form of formal essays about mathematical problems, writing to prompts, or focused journal writing. Students learn to clarify, refine, and consolidate thinking. Children learn mathematics…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Content Area Writing, Cues, Instructional Innovation
Foxx, R. M.; And Others – 1987
This paper describes the development and use of language training procedures, referred to as cues-pause-point procedures, that rely on behavioral principles and simple and natural teaching procedures and that are exhibited in many normal parent-child or teacher-student verbal interactions. The procedures have been effective in teaching severely…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Cues