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Toronto Board of Education (Ontario). Research Dept.
The purpose of the pilot reported here is to compare pupil's learning of English grammar and usage through a programed course, "English 2600: A Scientific Programme in Grammar and Usage," and a traditional method of grammar instruction used in an eighth-grade English class. Procedures used in the experiment are described. Statistical results are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Experiments, Elementary Schools
Levin, Lennart – 1972
This text describes a Swedish research program (GUME Project--the Swedish equivalent of the Gothenburg/Teaching/Methods/English Project) carried out during 1968-71 within the field of second-language instruction and learning. A number of comparative experiments were performed in order to assess the relative merits of two different approaches to…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Course Objectives
Torrey, Jane W. – 1966
An experiment in language behavior comparing two methods of learning grammatical word order in a new language presents scientific evidence supporting the use of pattern drills in foreign language teaching. The experiment reviews the performance of three groups attempting to learn small segments of Russian "microlanguage": (1) a drill group learned…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research, Educational Experiments, Grammar