Describes learning activities related to Halliday's schema of functional language development that teachers can use as a guide for planning early reading experiences. (Author/RH)

Describes a large-scale project that was undertaken by a group of advanced students of English as a second language in England as part of their language course. The project involved research into the problems of the disabled tourist and the collection of information about facilities available to the disabled in the city of Bath. (Author/MES)

Suggests criteria and strategies for an efficient use of textbook grammar presentations to give students a useful and native-like language. Shows how text deficiencies can be remedied through rearrangement and deletion of grammatical points and emphasizes the need for reentering useful, high frequency items in new contexts throughout the course.…

Describes a Delphi study exploring future trends in the production of instructional media in terms of the basic nature of the process and the technologies involved, and summarizes the findings. A table displaying the 116 survey items with response means and standard deviations for Rounds Two and Three is appended. (MER)

Offers reasons for the declining literacy rate of new military recruits and makes suggestions for improving performance ratings in military training. Recommendations include visually attractive presentations, simple language, performance testing, a relaxed learning environment and feedback, and addressing the learner as an adult. (MER)

High school students enrolled in a French course learned vocabulary words under conditions of either massed or distributed practice. Though performance of the two groups was virtually identical immediately after completion of the study, the students who had learned the vocabulary by distributed practice did substantially better on a second test…

Identifies 22 Canadian high school English teachers' attitudes toward three categories of literature instruction (traditional, elective, and individualized). Concludes that teachers make use of all types of approaches, but that they should spend more time on individualized reading. (RL)

EDSIM is a computer assisted learning (CAL) facility which provides practice in feedback-controlled instructional planning, and also may be used for research on instructional design. EDSIM can compress considerable teaching experience into a short period so that users can acquire the requisite flexibility in lesson planning. (Author)

Describes key provisions necessary in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a film designed for continuing medical education. A case history approach is utilized. (Author)

Stresses the need to base decisions about media design and selection on the compatibility of media with the content to be presented, and with the learners. Application of these factors in the design of mediated instruction and the selection of materials are considered. (Author/CMV)

Determined the effects of instructional procedures differing in degree of student control on achievement and attitudes of pupils identified as having an internal or external locus of control. Results suggest instructional procedure may not differentially affect achievement of internal and external sixth graders over a short period. (Author)

Emphasizes the importance of looking at the quality of a reader's miscues, rather than the quantity; presents an approach to analyzing a reader's miscues and determining what kinds of instructional approaches might be appropriate for that reader. (MAI)

The model stresses interactions among specific combinations of cognitive task requirements, learner characteristics, and instructional treatment properties, in a manner analogous to the aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) model. "Supplantation" is the provision of overt assistance to learners in performing a specific process required by…

Identifies essential aspects of administrative planning that must be considered when moving from a traditional reading preservice education program to a competency, field-based model of instruction. (TJ)

Identifies difficulties of using microcomputer-based systems as surrogate teachers and some benefits from their appropriate use in partnership with the teacher. Uses considered include application program, simulation program, drill and practice, tutorial program, computer modeling, and administration program. (JEG)