Noting that interviews with preschool children can yield invaluable information regarding children's thinking and knowledge, this book presents information for preschool and primary school practitioners on an extension of Piaget's clinical interview method and provides examples of the process, analysis, and conclusions from interviews with young…

Recently, the nature of science has enjoyed renewed attention in science education circles as a primary component of scientific literacy. This paper describes an investigation meant to assess the influence of a person's understanding of the nature of science on his or her decision-making regarding science- and technology-based issues, and to…

This book considers the question of whether, or to what extent, a critical period limits the acquisition of a first language as well as a second language acquired postpubertally. The diversity of opinion on this question is represented in this volume. It is a question that has been approached by researchers working in linguistic theory, evolution…

This paper discusses what is known about learning to date by emphasizing "connections" as necessary for learning. Knowledge about these connections can be placed into four categories: (1) neurological connections; (2) cognitive connections; (3) social connections; and (4) experiential connections. In terms of neurological connections, sensory…

This paper demonstrates that the axis between cognition and multimedia language teaching is very short by introducing three fundamental concepts: (1) mediatizing, i.e., the direct use of any medium as a way of expressing oneself; (2) multimediatizing, i.e., the choice of a multimedia support to express a didactized informational content; and (3)…

The transformation from active to passive voice is analyzed by the student according to a sequence of specific "rules", analagous to the steps one might use to program a computer to perform the same transformation. (DD)

First-year results reported in "International Review of Applied Linguistics," v 10 p 60-72 1972. (DD)

Discusses the behavioristically- and humanistically-oriented positions in teacher education, and suggests an eclectic approach to methods course implementation applicable to both elementary and secondary level science. (CC)

The sentence-picture comparison task requires Ss to decide, as quickly as possible, whether a sentence correctly describes a feature of a picture. (Author)

Implications are that increasing a child's ability to think in terms of alternative solutions to real-life problems could supplement a primary preventive mental health program. (Authors)