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Peer reviewedPany, Darlene; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1982
The effects of vocabulary instruction on word knowledge and reading comprehension were investigated. Average students learned some word synonyms under all conditions except a noninstructional control condition. However, learning disabled students acquired fewer meanings across all conditions and seemed to require more direct instruction in order…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedGajdusek, Linda – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Discusses English as a second language (ESL) theory as it relates to the use of literature, and presents a four-step approach to any literary text that obliges ESL students to take responsibility for building their own successively more complex schemata. This approach is illustrated with Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues
