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Kern, Edith – Yale French Studies, 1959
Critical of the language instruction which students receive in elementary and secondary schools, the author examines the teaching potential of televised instruction. Foreign language instruction in the elementary school is noted to be particularly weak. Discussion of an experiment involving some 800 children in 4th and 5th grades suggests that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Experiments
GOTTSCHALK, GUNTHER H. – 1965
IN 1964, THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, CONDUCTED AN EXPERIMENT REPLACING 50 PERCENT OF STUDENT-TEACHER CONTACT WITH PRE-RECORDED TELEVISION LECTURES FOR TWO OF SIX SECTIONS OF GERMAN. ELEMENTS NORMALLY PRESENTED BY LECTURES WERE ISOLATED FROM CURRENT COURSE MATERIALS FOR TELEVISION PRESENTATION. IT WAS BELIEVED THAT THE QUALITY OF…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Closed Circuit Television, College Instruction, Course Descriptions
Holec, H. – 1973
An experiment in inservice training for language teachers is described. The experiment consists of using radio, television, written materials, or tapes to introduce topics in applied linguistics that are relevant to second language teaching methods. The object of the experiment is to determine whether this method, in which the instructor and the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids, Correspondence Study