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Download full textWOOD, MILDRED H. – 1965
THE PHILOSOPHY AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN (AGED SIX TO 10 YEARS) ARE PRESENTED. INTELLECTUAL, PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, PERSONAL, AND OCCUPATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHILDREN ARE DISCUSSED. A DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM (CLASS, CLASSROOM, TEACHER, DAILY PROGRAM, AND…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum
Reflections and Investigations on Reading: Twenty-fifth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.
Miller, Wallace D., Ed.; McNinch, George H., Ed. – 1976
Focusing on the broad topic of reading, the articles in this volume are arranged into the following categories: literature reviews, college and adult education, teacher education, reading research, language, and comprehension. The literature reviews cover the areas of the underlining study aid, learning from text, sex roles and reading…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Curriculum Development. – 1977
The purpose of this guide is to identify program goals in Texas for the teaching of Spanish, Levels I, II, and III (Grades 7-12). Program goals are presented for the students' development of four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing--and an understanding of Hispanic culture. The guidelines are designed to assist local schools…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Context, Cultural Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Communications. – 1974
The extent to which the use of the Graphics Expression Reading Improvement System (GERIS) improved the reading skills of Title I was investigated. The GERIS program, which combines an eight-step process in language skill development with student-created television productions, was used at two schools during the 1972-73 school year. One hundred…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Television, Elementary School Students
Ishihara, Shinobu – 1996
An approach to teaching English writing to Japanese high school students that focuses on writing for communication is described. First, communicative writing is defined. Next, a central concern of writing in Japan, the notion of audience, is discussed and two ways of categorizing audiences (real vs. imagined and "safe" vs.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Perin, Dolores – 1987
The Consortium for Worker Literacy is made up of a group of New York City unions that are providing literacy education to workers and their families in order to help them adjust to a radically changing labor market. The consortium operates a degree program for workers in collaboration with the City University of New York. At a different academic…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Consortia
Leon County Schools, Tallahassee, FL. – 1989
This life skills curriculum helps adult basic educators meet the needs of senior adult learners. An introduction contains the following sections: purpose statement; description of the senior adult learner; tips to remember on teaching senior adults; physiology of aging; teaching the hearing impaired; and teaching the visually impaired. The life…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Consumer Education, Coping
Purcell-Gates, Victoria – 1986
Educators suggest that children whose families have read to them during their preschool years acquire lexical and syntactic knowledge of sentence-level features typical of written narrative before they begin formal literacy instruction. To test this claim, to discern growth in this knowledge over time and experience, and to describe the lexical…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of School Improvement Services. – 1986
Public Act 84-126 amended The School Code of Illinois to include a definition of schooling and a requirement that the goals for learning be identified and assessed. This document identifies state goals for language arts education in grades 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12, and includes a sample set of district level learning objectives consistent with those…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
Nerenz, Anne G.; Knop, Constance K. – 1982
Research on the effect of small-group instruction on students' second language classroom experience, as well as strategies for teachers, are examined. Eight foreign language teachers observed their student teachers an average of 11 times each on randomly-selected days over an 8-week observation period, generating a total of 5,288 "snapshots" of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Size, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationDissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1979
This text is the first of four levels sequenced as a continuum of language skills for the Spanish speaker of limited English speaking ability in grades six through nine. Levels one and two emphasize oral skills and levels three and four emphasize written skills. The teacher's edition is designed to follow along with and complement exercises…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, Dialogs (Language)
Kao, Kung-yi; And Others – 1978
An intermediate-level textbook intended for those who have had at least 2 1/2 years of Chinese language study is presented. The objective of the text is to assist in developing the reading and conversational skills required for dealing with general topics in the pure and applied sciences. Common terms and concepts from three general fields (Life…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Chinese, Electronics Industry
BOTTIGLIA, WILLIAM F. – 1963
THESE REPORTS OF THE WORKING COMMITTEES OF THE 1963 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ANALYZE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING LANGUAGE TEACHERS AS THEY PROGRESS FROM THE AUDIOLINGUAL ORIENTATION OF THE ELEMENTARY LEVELS TO THE INTERMEDIATE PHASE IN A CONTINUUM OF LANGUAGE STUDY. IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER WHETHER BILINGUALISM CAN BE…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Conference Reports
Peavey, Kay S., Ed. – 1998
This document, which is the first in a series of best practice documents incorporating the wisdom and experiences of New York's adult educators, presents eight learning experiences that are specifically tailored for adult learners and instructors. The following information is provided for each learning experience: (1) a brief description of the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1999
The report, entirely in French, describes Alberta's curriculum for first-year French native language instruction. An introductory section offers background information on the curriculum's design, links between the core curriculum and French native language instruction, underlying principles of language instruction, the curriculum's objectives and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Cultural Context, Cultural Education
