To know the age effects in foreign language learning for children in China, we made both qualitative survey on the English teachers, the students and their parents by means of questionnaire; and quantitative survey on the students' scores from junior 1 to senior 2 (5 years) in the secondary school by analyses between those (over 30 students) who…

Adult workplace intervention programs to improve physical activity through wearing personal pedometers and completing team orientated "virtual journeys" have been shown to be useful in enhancing activity levels (Mummery, Schofield, Hinchliffe, Joyner, & Brown, 2006). Similar approaches applied to the school setting have also been…

This textbook is targeted at educators teaching students in the fifth year seeking to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively, more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Provision is made for individual differences in pupil ability and achievement.…

This textbook for the fifth grade seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or…

This textbook for the sixth grade seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or…

The purpose of this language and grammar book for the seventh grade is to improve the pupil's English. Such improvement means not one achievement but many. It resolves itself in practice into numerous detailed aims and individual lines of instruction, of effort, of exercise, and of progress. In terms of major objectives it includes the attainment…

This textbook is is designed to be read after "Stories of Child Life, Book II." It deals with the common experience of most children who have been in school one year, and is therefore within their comprehension. The new words are introduced so gradually, and repeated so frequently, that the children, while reading the book, will add…

This teacher's manual represents the first of a three-book series. It is written for third grade educators. The arrangement of lessons allows flexibility and enables the teacher to repeat lessons when necessary and to review thoroughly any exercise in which pupils need additional practice. The Manual aims to help educators make their teaching more…

This textbook presents an eighth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

This textbook presents a fourth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

This textbook presents a seventh-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

This textbook presents a sixth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

This report focuses on two aspects of teacher supply and quality: (a) the under-representation of racial/ethnic minorities, especially African Americans in the teaching pool, and (b) teacher candidates' performance on licensure assessments, including general skills tests in reading, writing, and mathematics (known as Praxis I[R]) and selected…

The text samples presented in this document primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. Additionally, they are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter in the text types required by the Standards. The choices should serve as…

This English textbook is designed for the seventh and eighth grades of the elementary school. Like Book One (ED623274) of the same series, it lays stress on spoken language and aims throughout rather to lead the pupils to see the value of correct and accurate language and desire to use it, than formally to cover any mapped-out field of knowledge.…