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Kindelin, Heidy – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
A teacher devised an activity based on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" to spark her deaf students' interest in fingerspelling. "Fingerspelling Fortune" spells out puzzles using cards with handshapes. As the cards are turned and the students try to guess the phrases, they increase proficiency in recognizing handshapes. (VW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedDaugherty, Howard – Russian Language Journal, 1984
Discusses an approach to teaching Russian which addresses the problem from the perspective of the reader or listener. Students are taught first to identify the nuclear construction of sentences--the subject and predicate--and then to isolate the remaining noun phrases and relate them with one of the two core elements. (SED)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Receptive Language
Culatta, Barbara – Education Unlimited, 1980
Intended for the teacher of handicapped children, the article describes some symptoms of language processing difficulty. Prerequisite skills for language comprehension are reviewed, and characteristics which can help to identify children with receptive language problems are listed. (SBH)
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology, Informal Assessment
Peer reviewedStorch, Guenther – Zielsprache Deutsch, 1979
Sees word formation as an economical, important means of building vocabulary. Gives examples showing several different word-building patterns. Sees as a reasonable teaching goal the gaining of competence only in "receptive" word formation, i.e., recognition. The student can learn to build new words only from simple, frequently recurring…
Descriptors: German, Receptive Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Kaczmarek, Louise A. – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1982
The article considers how three types of language skills (receptive, functional expressive, and descriptive expressive) can be integrated into typical gross and fine motor activities for language delayed preschoolers. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedHill, L. A. – Zielsprache Englisch, 1980
Describes a teaching method for vocabulary development based on word formation by means of affixes. Discusses inflectional and derivational suffixes, prefixes, and their meaning. Offers examples of practice materials and of receptive and productive tests. (MES)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedGefen, Raphael – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Discusses the "less-able" student via a description of the strategies used by the good language learner. Such strategies include a positive, active, and tolerant approach to learning the language, with a willingness to practice the language. The less-able needs a constant sense of achievement to continue. (PJM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Listening Comprehension
