Knowing how to read is a very important aid in accelerating mental activity and curiosity in children and thus opening up new regions of thought and experience--one of the broad goals of education. However, reading should not be defined solely in relation to print media. Other languages, such as film, can enrich the study of all humanities…

This book is a collection of 15 original articles on the rapidly growing area of cognition. It presents seminal studies in such areas as schizophrenia, dyslexia, blindness, curriculum and teaching, child development, learning disabilities, language, problem-solving and body awareness. Some articles represent work of a pioneering nature while…

Any teaching act is the result of a decision, either conscious or unconscious. Previous research on basic teaching skills examined alternative teaching acts, such as explaining, questioning, reinforcing, without examining how teachers choose between one or another act. This paper argues that the basic teaching skill is decision making. This…

An internal/external efficiency evaluation on the economic implications of mastery learning is presented. Two important aspects of mastery learning are: (1) its intrinsic worth regardless of economic benefits, and (2) the necessary changes in the social and economic structure that will make the mastery learning approach increasingly functional. It…

Synectics is a method of creative problem solving through the use of metaphor and apparent irrelevancy developed by William J. J. Gordon. The process involves rational knowledge of the problem to be solved, irrational improvisations that lead to fertile associations creating new approaches to the problem, and euphoric state that is essential in…

Ways of using literature to train students in making critical inferences are discussed. (JH)

New trends in teaching EFL in Europe are compiled and evaluated from various national and international research studies. Proposals for the integration of the semantic syllabus are emphasized. A movement towards rhetoric is found. (MS)

This article discusses the psychology of second language learning, and specifically comments on Gantier's book on the teaching of foreign languages. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Much difficulty in teaching composition stems from the erroneous assumption that thought precedes writing. (JH)

English teachers must organize activities that will teach the true processes of revision. (JH)

"Openness-to-the-world" is a prerequisite to good personal writing.

Presents a method which draws upon students' imagination, creativity, and associative abilities and engages them in the language learning process. (Author/AM)

High cognitive processing capacity (CPC) students were superior to low-CPC students in prose learning. Of the four learning modes--programmed instruction (PI), control, chunking study outline, and adjunct questions--PI was the most effective. Substantial CPC and performance correlations and poor long-term retention suggested that PI was not best…

Tree searching was applied as a computer model of simple addition sentences. Results indicated that the number of problem reductions performed in tree searching accounted for most of the variance across problems in student error rate and solution time. The technique constitutes a computer test for the adequacy of a problem solving prescription.…

Defines the term "higher cognitive questioning" and shows teachers how to use this technique to build students' critical reading skills. (RL)