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Marzano, Robert J. – 1983
Vocabulary development, operationally defined as the isomorphism between an individual's store of concepts and the labels society uses to represent those concepts, is akin to concept development. Therefore, vocabulary development can be facilitated if presented in clusters of related concepts. One approach used to reinforce such basic concept…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedReifman, Betty; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1981
Nineteen first grade children were randomly assigned to two experimental reading instruction conditions lasting 12 weeks. Both conditions used the language experience approach to teaching beginning language. In the experimental stage, the language experience approach was augmented by a total of six hours of individualized word-bank activities.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Enrichment
Asplund, Betsy B.; Sunal, Cynthia S. – 1976
Ten second grade students in a slow reading group were studied to compare the effects of basal and language experience instruction on word recognition skills. For four weeks, all the students received 90 minutes of basal instruction each morning. During the afternoon sessions, the five language experience students dictated and read stories related…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
Way, Flo – 1982
This revised evaluation supplement to the "DOVACK Method for Teaching Reading Project Report" corrects errors in the report's original evaluation supplement with respect to the results of the 72-day and 108-day DOVACK Random Sample Vocabulary Recognition Tests employed to measure the effectiveness of DOVACK as a language experience…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedMoustafa, Margaret – Reading Teacher, 1987
Assesses the results of using Comprehensible Input PLUS Language Experience Approach (CI plus LEA) to teach reading and language arts to non-native speakers in grades 4-6 in the early stages of language acquisition. Concludes that students demonstrated a high retention level as well as an ability to transfer what they had learned by reading…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Instructional Systems
Peer reviewedKlapper, John – Language Learning Journal, 1993
Examines specific approaches to the acquisition and teaching of word, syntax, and text attack skills in foreign language (FL) classes. The role played by computers in second-language reading is considered, and a discussion of problems currently facing the teacher who wishes to allocate reading a more prominent place in the FL learning program is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Educational Objectives
