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Using Direct Instruction to Improve Teacher Performance, Academic Achievement, and Classroom Behavior in a Japanese Public Junior High School.
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Nakano, Yoshiaki; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1993
A two-year professional development program in a Japanese junior high school is described. Schoolwide training institutes and individual practice sessions focused on behavioral methods of instruction according to a direct instruction model. Observed teaching behaviors changed following the program, and most teachers indicated the direct…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Sciences, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries
The Effects of Repeated Readings on the Development of Lower Identification Skills of FL Readers.
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Taguchi, Etsuo – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1997
Investigates the effects of repeated readings of a passage in a foreign language (English) on the ability of slow beginning readers at a Japanese university to increase their oral and silent reading rates. Results indicate that, for practice passages, silent reading rates increased significantly. This transfer of practice effects to a new passage…
Descriptors: College Students, Control Groups, English (Second Language), Females