The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their "habitus". It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way…

To examine the relationship between syntactic processes in language comprehension and language production, we compared structural persistence from sentence primes that speakers heard to persistence from primes that speakers produced. [Bock, J. K., & Griffin, Z. M. (2000). The persistence of structural priming: transient activation or implicit…

This article analyzes the attraction of stimulation produced by a visuotactile sensory substitution device, which was designed to provide optical information to infants who are blind via a tactile modality. The device was first tested on sighted infants, to demonstrate that this type of stimulation on the abdomen is pleasant and rewarding in…

This study examined how middle school students constructed their understanding of the mitosis and meiosis processes at a molecular level through multimedia learning materials presented in different interaction and sensory modality modes. A two (interaction modes: animation/simulation) by two (sensory modality modes: narration/on-screen text)…

The assimilation and synthesis of knowledge is essential for students to be successful in chemistry, yet not all students synthesize knowledge as intended. The study used the Learning Preference Checklist to classify students into one of three learning modalities--visual, auditory, or kinesthetic (VAK). It also used the Kolb Learning Style…

This article used work from the writing assessment literature to develop a framework for assessing the impact and perceived value of written, audio, and combined written and audio feedback strategies across four global and 22 discrete dimensions of feedback. Using a quasi-experimental research design, students at three U.S. universities were…

The author explains a method of increasing sensory awareness through experiencing the sight, sound, feel, smell, and taste of a pine cone. (IM)

Concentrating on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence in elementary school classrooms ignores the dominant strengths of most children, who may possess alternative spatial, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, or intrapersonal intelligence. Explains how elementary teachers can transform "dysteachea" into learning strategies for…

The article describes a multi-modal linguistic approach which draws on the existence of student's preferred language or linguistic style corresponding to their preferred learning style. (CL)

Surveys research on the differences between haptic and visual learners and describes a haptic testing program to help industrial arts teachers work with haptic students. (SK)

Preferred learning modalities of adults with learning disabilities should be assessed to make learning productive. Relevant information can be acquired about communication styles and skills, color association, hobbies and leisure activities, and favored learning or work environments. (SK)

The Multi-Modal Paired Associates Learning Test-Revised measured 89 high school graduates and 38 dropouts on 7 learning modalities. Both groups scored highest in the visual and lowest in the olfactory modality. Graduates scored higher than nongraduates, suggesting that dropouts are less able to learn from print and aural methods. (SK)

Describes the results of a study of graduate students that investigated the relationship between the dimensions of library anxiety and learning-modality preferences by using a multivariate analysis and canonical correlation analysis. Use of the Library Anxiety Scale and the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey are also described.…

Australian apprentices (n=389) expressed a preference for well-structured training with clear expectations in social learning contexts. Results were at odds with current flexible delivery methods that unstructured, self-directed, and independent learning approaches. (Contains 41 references.) (SK)

Multiple sense modalities can be stimulated conjointly by a physically complex item, such as a predator, and also by a physically solitary stimulus that acts on multiple receptor classes. As a prime example of this latter group, l-menthol from mint stimulates taste, smell, and several somatosensory submodalities. In 6 experiments that used a…