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Download full textLouisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge.
This report to the Louisiana legislature describes the results of the student assessment phase of a mandated accountability program, in which criterion referenced tests of reading performance in vocabulary, phonetic analysis, structural analysis, comprehension, study skills, and word attack skills were administered to 160,771 students in grades 4,…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11
Sticht, Thomas G. – 1978
Two focuses of a discussion of literacy and vocational competence should be the need for a more profound understanding of literacy and the relevance of that understanding for studying reading in vocational settings. A developmental model of the acquisition of literacy considers reading a second signaling system for speech. People who become…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Employment Qualifications, Informal Reading Inventories
Moulden, H. – 1978
Students of English as a second language at a French engineering college participated in an experimental program which allotted to independent study a portion of the time previously given over to classroom instruction. Spoken language was emphasized in this self-instructional component. The program, which was new at the time of publication, is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Language Programs, Educational Media, Educational Objectives
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1960
Book two, part two, of an intermediate-advanced level German refresher course for college students is presented. The volume consists of 42 lessons of text material and 42 prerecorded tapes. A typical unit is made up of spontaneous dialogues, substitution drills, and tests. A dialogue for listening is a short conversation between German speakers…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), German
Chapline, Elaine – 1979
The Environmental Education/Communication Skills program was designed to improve junior high school students' reading and writing skills. The key idea of the program was to motivate reading and writing improvement through environmental topic learning. Content focus areas were: orienteering, plant life, animal life, environmental problems, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Content Area Reading, Environmental Education, Junior High Schools
Gary, Judith Olmsted – 1979
The rationale for delayed oral practice in language teaching is that the same rules underlie both speaking and listening and that the student has to understand how a language works before being capable of creating a sentence in the language. Having to focus on speaking performance as well as on listening comprehension distracts the learner from…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Language Research
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The tenth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. Each lesson deals with grammatical patterns and vocabulary through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after every four…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Dialogs (Language)
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The twelfth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. Each lesson deals with grammatical patterns and vocabulary through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, and question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after every…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Dialogs (Language)
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The fourteenth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. Each lesson deals with grammatical patterns and vocabulary through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, and question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adult Education, Adverbs, Arabic
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The sixteenth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. Each lesson deals with grammatical patterns and vocabulary through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, and question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after every…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adult Education, Adverbs, Arabic
Torgeson, Ronald M. – 1977
Information is provided concerning the reading performance of North Dakota students and is reported as the percentage of correct responses for each objective. Students in grades 4, 8, and 11 in North Dakota's public and private schools were assessed. Information about basic reading objectives was collected in order to evaluate their relationship…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11
Cooper, Edward M. – 1980
Ways in which institutions of higher education can provide more meaningful information to students, especially prospective students, were studied. The specific study objective was to investigate the meaningfulness/understandability and comparability of written formats and to explore possible differences associated with age, ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Charts, College Bound Students, College Choice
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The material in this teacher's guide supplements existing tape materials in the lessons of the basic course in French. The exercises begin with Lesson 13 of the Basic Course and continue through Lesson 63. Each unit in this manual concentrates on a grammatical point and contains the following elements: (1) learning objectives, (2) audiolingual…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, French, Grammar
Linn, Robert L.; And Others – 1980
The possibility that certain features of items on a reading comprehension test may lead to biased estimates of the reading achievement of particular subgroups of students was investigated. Item response data on the reading comprehension section of a frequently used achievement test were obtained from the Anchor Test Study data files. Eight…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
JENNINGS, LEE B. – 1967
ALTHOUGH TRANSLATION, A SKILL NOT CONSIDERED USEFUL IN A BASIC AUDIOLINGUAL MODERN LANGUAGE PROGRAM, HAS BEEN DISPENSED WITH, READING, ANOTHER SPECIALIZED SKILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRED ALONG WITH THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE ORALLY, APPEARS TO BE LESS CONTROVERSIAL. IF, THEN, READING CONTINUES AS A GOAL OF LANGUAGE TEACHING, IT MUST BE TESTED NOT…
Descriptors: German, Learning Theories, Modern Languages, Reading
