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Download full textKariuki, Patrick N. K.; Bush, Elizabeth Danielle – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Total Physical Response by Storytelling and the traditional teaching method on a foreign language in a selected high school. The sample consisted of 30 students who were randomly selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught using Total…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Holistic Approach, Story Telling, Conventional Instruction
Peer reviewedVanderMeulen, Kenneth – Reading Horizons, 1976
Begins a four-part series dealing with practical suggestions for improving the vocabularies of high school students. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedCunningham, Pat – Reading Teacher, 1980
Discusses techniques for teaching meaning vocabulary and describes the advantages of one commercially produced vocabulary program. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedBowman, James D. – Arizona Reading Journal, 1991
Suggests six instructional procedures (concepts and novelty exercises pertaining to word pairs) for vocabulary development, designed to capitalize on intraword redundancy (determining possible word meaning by paying attention to familiar roots and affixes within the unknown word). (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Direct linkBrassell, Danny – Reading Teacher, 2006
In an effort to increase her students' interest in science, a teacher in an underresourced school secured large donations of science-related books for her classroom of second-language learners. By balancing her science classroom library and read-alouds with a number of interesting nonfiction trade books and storybooks, the teacher tried to enhance…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Skills, Teaching Methods, Science Interests, Reading Comprehension
PDF pending restorationMangieri, John N.; Arthur, Sharon V. – 1978
Three randomly selected third grade classes participated in a study to discover the value of guided television watching on listening skills. The first class was a control group and received no special instruction or treatment, the second class received daily listening lessons, and the third group watched television guided by the use of teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Listening Skills, Teaching Methods
IRELAND, VIRGINIA – 1966
A METHOD OF VOCABULARY STUDY USED AS A TOOL RATHER THAN AS A COMPLETE VOCABULARY PROGRAM HELPS STUDENTS INVESTIGATE ANY WORD AND HELPS CLARIFY KEY OR DIFFICULT WORDS IN AN ASSIGNMENT. THE SEMANTIC LEVELS OF DEFINITION-MAKING ARE EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE TEACHER'S ASKING THE STUDENTS WHAT CLASS OF THINGS A CERTAIN WORD STANDS FOR AND HOW…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Semantics, Teaching Methods, Verbal Development
Peer reviewedLaughlin, Rosemary M. – Language Arts, 1978
Describes techniques for acquainting children with the dictionary. (DD)
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Skills
Peer reviewedCroll, Charles – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Method involves use of context clues, dictionary work, and a point incentive system. (SP)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Methods, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedSmith, Lawrence L.; Smith, Lynn C. – Social Studies, 1983
The magic square technique is a useful and enjoyable method for helping social studies students at all levels to learn new vocabulary. (RM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Grubaugh, Steven – Forum for Reading, 1984
Spoken Words, a modified language experience approach to the study of vocabulary, offers college instructors an opportunity to individualize vocabulary instruction and to demonstrate a variety of the most powerful vocabulary learning strategies in a natural language setting. To implement Spoken Words, the teacher must first model the procedure by…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Evans, Joyce – 1978
This study compares the effectiveness of three methods of teaching object names to young children. These methods were (1) informal play, in which an adult named and described those objects with which a child played; (2) picture reading, in which an adult named and described objects depicted in photographs; and (3) a combination of the first and…
Descriptors: Infants, Pictorial Stimuli, Play, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra L. – Elementary School Journal, 1978
Reports the results of a study of six major reading series to learn which prefixes are taught and at what grade level. (BR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods
Zurbruegg, Eleanore; And Others – Instructor, 1977
Presents the results of the Best Teaching Idea contest that sparked a response that flooded the editors with entries. Here are the 20 adjudged the best ranging all the way from self-made computers to games made by kids to be played with parents. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Student Development, Student Participation
Chadbourn, James H.; Lawrence, Cindy – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1976
Suggests ways of involving students in conversations as exercises in the use of vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), Secondary Education, Speech Communication, Teaching Methods
