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Juhasz, Janos – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
The Ranschburg phenomenon is a process of memory interference caused by confounding of similar elements in discretely learned materials. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, German, Hungarian, Inhibition
Toronto 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
Crymes, Ruth – 1971
The transformational-generative concept of language learning as constructing a theory about language inspired this experiment. Language performance developed by a method of language learning designed to help the student study about a second language through manipulative exercises was compared to language performance developed by a method not…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
Soderbergh, Ragnhild – 1971
The reading instruction experiment described in this report is based on the theory that, if a child learns to talk without formal instruction solely by being exposed to language and if written language is to be considered as an independent system, a child could learn to read at the same age and in the same way as he is learning to talk, solely by…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis