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Direct linkWalsh, Bridget A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation study employed quantitative methods to investigate the impact of adult questioning styles on children's novel vocabulary acquisition during shared storybook reading. In an effort to examine adult qualitative variations in shared storybook readings, two experiments were conducted to assess the effect of noneliciting questions…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Vocabulary
Politzer, Robert L. – IRAL, 1970
Advocates that information on student aptitude for foreign language learning be used not, as in the past, for determining the best general method for language teaching but rather for determining the best teaching method for particular kinds of students. (FB)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Educational Experiments, Individualized Instruction, Language Instruction
Download full textWilliamsen, Vern G. – 1968
This document describes an educational experiment designed to test the proposition that language learning can best be carried on through a program of maximum exposure in the least possible time. An experimental class of 19 average students participated in an eight-week intensive course consisting of four half-hour laboratory sessions; there were…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Intensive Language Courses, Language Skills, Modern Languages
Lado, Robert; And Others – 1970
The problems investigated in the present study are the identification of the most effective type of presentation of dialogues in language instruction--auditory, orthographic, or some combination of the two--and the measurement of the accuracy of pronunciation and the amount of dialogue retained by the student. The controlled experiment, performed…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Dialogs (Literary), Educational Experiments
Obrecht, Dean H. – 1971
This report contrasts the results of a rigidly specified, pattern-oriented approach to learning Spanish with an approach that emphasizes the origination of sentences by the learner in direct response to stimuli. Pretesting and posttesting statistics are presented and conclusions are discussed. The experimental method, which required the student to…
Descriptors: Colleges, Creativity, Educational Experiments, Generative Grammar
Smith, Merle – 1971
This final report on the Pontiac Bilingual Program begins with a description of the program and a discussion of the school-community relationship established in the program. Monolingual children, language-interference students, and Anglo children are included in the experiment. The research procedures and tests used in the experiment are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Cultural Education, Educational Experiments
Levinsky, Frieda – 1971
This study reviews current research seeking to determine the relative importance of methodology upon success in language learning programs. Six language classes, instructed for a full academic year according to either the principles of the audiolingual or cognitive code language learning theory, were the focus of an experiment to statistically…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Educational Experiments
