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Rouquette, Michel-Louis – Francais dans le Monde, 1975
The pedagogue is caught between the qualitative and quantitative or regularized aspects of his work, a situation not automatically conducive to scientific study. The article refreshes the instructor on the elementary principles of experimentation: observation, systematization, elaboration of hypothesis, and startegies of comparison. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Experiments, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedPostovsky, Valerian A. – Modern Language Journal, 1974
Describes a study designed to challenge the theory that the initial phase of instruction in foreign language should be based on intensive oral practice. (PMP)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Psycholinguistics
Download full textToronto Board of Education (Ontario). Research Dept. – 1961
An experiment in language instruction undertaken in Canadian junior high schools during the 1960-61 school year is reported in this study. The pilot project: (1) examines the phenomena of learning to comprehend and speak French through two different but direct modes of instruction; (2) compares by achievement tests the results of the two modes of…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, French, Language Instruction, Language Research
Peer reviewedHauptman, Philip C. – Language Learning, 1971
Revised version of a paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1971, New Orleans, La. (VM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
Sauer, Helmut – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1973
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Experiments, Educational Policy, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedCrymes, Ruth – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1971, New Orleans, Louisiana, based on a study supported in part by a University of Hawaii Curriculum Development Grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Werdelin, I. – 1966
Three samples of 58 subjects each, selected from the students of seven eighth grade classes and matched with respect to scholastic achievement, program of study, and sex, were taught a foreign alphabet (Arabic) differently. Sample A was told the principles of the alphabet and applied it to examples; Sample B was given most examples first, then…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Arabic, Deduction, Discovery Learning
Smith, Philip D., Jr. – 1969
Beginning with a brief review of the growth of the audiolingual method of foreign language instruction in the United States of America, this paper examines implications and lessons drawn from an educational experiment in language instruction known as the Pennsylvania Report. The text of a memorandum to school administrators in Pennsylvania by the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Conventional Instruction, Educational Experiments, French
Wood, Nancy E. – 1970
This report describes an experiment concerned with a possible relationship between the inability to learn basic educational skills, such as reading and writing, and the inability to organize incoming stimuli for communication purposes, in spite of adequate intellectual potential. The study had three main tasks. The first problem was to develop a…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Educational Experiments
Savignon, Sandra J. – 1972
Communicative competence can be defined as the ability to function in a truly communicative setting, that is, in a dynamic exchange in which linguistic competence must adapt itself to the total informational input, both linguistic and paralinguistic, of one or more interlocutors. The research described in this book focuses on the development of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Language Programs, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
