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Kaufman, Wallace – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Course Content, Creative Writing, Experimental Programs, Higher Education
Burrus, Dorothy; Lohmann, Idella – Instructor, 1972
Children improve little in writing as a result of prescribed exercises in language mechanics. Skills in the use of language mechanics can be acquired effectively when the application is made to personal experiences and authentic reasons for writing, that is, the language-experience approach. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Experimental Programs, Experimental Teaching, Language Experience Approach
Farrell, Catharine Horne; Nessel, Denise D. – 1982
Storytelling has long been a part of our culture, and teachers should recognize its value as a pedagogical tool. The Word Weaving program, an experimental storytelling program, includes folk tales, literary tales, adaptations, and original and true stories from the teller. In it, all stories are simply told to a class without a book in evidence.…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Language Skills
Download full textStern, Carolyn; Keislar, Evan R. – 1969
This experiment was designed to study the value of oral response as opposed to nonoral response in learning by kindergarten children. Approximately 108 kindergarten children were used. About 80 of them were placed in the two experimental groups (that is, the oral and nonoral groups), and the others were placed in a control group. Phase I involved…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Deduction, Experimental Programs
Carlson-Kest, Evelyn – 1969
The development of children's language skills was studied in an experimental research project involving programmed versus incidental instruction in a prekindergarten program. It was hypothesized that children who attended a prekindergarten with programed instruction would score significantly higher on language skills tests than would a comparable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
SALTZMAN, IRVING J. – 1967
RESEARCH HAS NOT YET YIELDED CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE SUPERIORITY OF THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE TEACHING OVER THE TRADITIONAL, GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD. COLLABORATION ON EXPERIMENTATION BY TRAINED PSYCHOLOGISTS AND LANGUAGE TEACHERS COULD YIELD THE RELIABLE AND USEFUL DATA NEEDED TO MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS ABOUT IMPROVING…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Experimental Programs, Experimental Teaching, Grammar Translation Method
Queensland Dept. of Education, Brisbane (Australia). – 1971
This handbook is a guide to a compensatory language program designed for young, Australian, aboriginal children during their first year at school. It is the result of recent research which shows that reading retardation characteristic of aboriginal children may well be associated with the fact that their linguistic system differs from that in the…
Descriptors: Activities, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences
