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Sponseller, Doris Bergen – 1977
The structure of the testing condition is an important variable in measuring young children's language comprehension. This study examined effects of two testing conditions on the language comprehension scores of 24 toddlers, mean age 20.3 months. The methodology was based on the rationale that a test which allows parents to select stimuli which…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Environmental Influences
Download full textHeaton, Ruth M. – 1995
After 10 years of teaching rule-driven, procedure-based, algorithm-oriented mathematics, an elementary teacher describes how she began to rethink her teaching style after returning to school for a graduate degree. Her rethinking is based on the first of four student teaching events that spanned an entire school year in which she used the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Educational Change, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Quilter, Daniel – 1966
Some 115 comments on improving the teaching of foreign languages are organized in a broad variety of categories. They include: (1) class preparation, (2) student-teacher contact, (3) acoustic problems, (4) the role of English, (5) the use of the blackboard, (6) the role of the textbook, (7) grammar, (8) students and their questions, (9) teaching…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Audiovisual Instruction, Conversational Language Courses
Minn, Jay Paul – 1970
The pattern drill used in language instruction, termed the "schmattern drill" in this article, is severely criticized for depriving students of meaningful communication opportunities. Methods of alleviating student boredom through the extension of and variation in pattern drill design are illustrated by examples of contrasting "schmattern" and…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Audiolingual Methods, Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialogs (Literary)
Palermo, David S. – 1966
While studies in learning and verbal behavior show that learning comes through paired-associate problems, they do not explain the acquisition of language. Three paradigms demonstrate mediation effect in paired-associate learning: response equivalence, stimulus equivalence, and chaining model. By reviewing children's language acquisition patterns…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
Reynolds, William W., Jr.; And Others – 1971
This paper describes an instrument designed to yield quick and reliable data on cognitive processes in classroom interactions; techniques of applying the instrument to classroom situations; findings on the reliability of the instrument; and implications for its uses as a research instrument or, when coupled with the paradigms developed by Nelson,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Feedback
LeCapitaine, John E. – 1975
This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of 18 selected lessons from Dupont's Toward Affective Development (TAD) program for creating an awareness in students of alternatives to psycho-social situations. Using a sample of 60 subjects randomly selected from 111 sixth-grade students in northwest Wisconsin, two experimental and two…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
Peer reviewedVerbist, R., Ed.; And Others – Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis, 1977
This journal highlights five papers by international authors on various topics in education. In the first article, it was hypothesized deductively that extroverts will show more fluctuations in attending than introverts and that individuals with high neuroticism show more fluctuations in attention span than less neurotic persons. The second…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Stages, Educational Research
Wilkins, Ernest
The guide consists of 15 units to teach conversational Spanish to teachers of migrant children. Using directed conversations and patterned responses, the units cover exchanging common greetings, asking and answering questions, introducing yourself and telling where you work, making statements and answering questions about certain personal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses
