Notes that the new trend in business toward informal learning programs is meeting with success. Suggests alternatives to formalized training and means of implementing these learning techniques. (TA)

Provides an overview of the theoretical arguments and problems encountered in the implementation of information technology in Chinese language teaching. States there is a belief that teaching and learning can be enhanced with the introduction of information technology, explaining that it may increase students' motivation to learn. (CMK)

The importance of the role of meaningfulness as a learning variable is discussed. (DEP)

Suggests an eclectic approach to foreign language teaching where the learner's cognitive structures and capacities as well as his entire personality would be taken into consideration. See FL 507 969 for availability information. (TL)

From the Series "Social Studies Education: The Elementary School -- Focus on Inquiry.

From the Series "Social Studies Education: The Elementary School -- Focus on Inquiry.

From the Series "Social Studies Education: The Elementary School -- Focus on Inquiry.

The research interests of developmental and educational psychologists concerned with children's learning appear to be converging. Simultaneously, the study of children's learning is at a significant crossroads. In the last decade, research has progressed rapidly and has moved from a problem to a variable orientation. If there is to be a…

Assuming the direct connection between vocational instruction and work, I want to discuss the implications of language and language research and of new research on the human brain for the future of vocational education. A language such as ours which uses alphabet signs rather than pictorial characters greatly facilitates the development of modern…

In an effort to clarify understanding of the concept of critical learning periods, this paper discusses problems that people concerned with the motor development of children have had determining relationships between critical periods and learning, and a "readiness model" is offered as a solution that could enhance understanding of critical…

If motivation to read fails to develop, reading failure is the outcome. All of us have very delicately balanced neural systems for integrating incoming sensory inputs, evaluating their significance in the light of past experience, and storing the learning for future use. Autistic and hyperkinetic children apparently have unbalanced neurological…

One of the essential differences between teaching a first and a second language is that the former is merely learned whereas the latter must usually be taught. This difference, while not absolute, still has enormous consequences. Although the "natural method" of second-language teaching is often championed, there is no way whereby the…

The aim of this paper is to give some insight into what academic simulation games are, what their goals are, how they accomplish these goals, and how they differ from other ways of teaching and learning. A game is a way of partitioning off a portion of action from the complex stream of life activities. It partitions off a set of players and…

Outlines a study designed to determine if adult interpretive comments significantly influence children's attitudes towards television entertainment programs and the amount of information learned. (MH)

The use of simulation in the classroom has a lot to offer for the social studies teacher. It motivates students to a higher interest in the topic they are studying and causes them to be actively involved in the learning process. (Author/RK)