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Peer reviewedFillmer, H. Thompson – Community College Review, 1983
Describes the use of Georgi Lozanov's technique using rhythm, breathing, music, and meditation to bring about hypermnesia, or supermemory, to teach vocabulary to 15 university students. Reviews students' vocabulary gains, as seen in pre- and post-test scores, and describes how some students implemented superlearning techniques with their own…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Students, Nontraditional Education, Postsecondary Education
Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy.
Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G.; Kucan, Linda – 2002
This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. It emphasizes instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. The book guides teachers in selecting words for…
Descriptors: Assignments, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedMattleman, Marciene S. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Presents examples of classroom activities designed to improve reading through improved vocabulary. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Verbal Development
Peer reviewedGipe, Joan P.; Arnold, Richard D. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1979
Describes a study in which investigators attempted to provide an example for approaching vocabulary development from a theoretical basis and tried to provide empirical support for some techniques presently used in teaching word meanings. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Teaching Methods
Download full textColorado Children's Campaign, 2008
Because of the substantial impact on outcomes for children, states and school districts across the country are addressing issues surrounding early learning opportunities and school readiness for young children. Full-day kindergarten plays an important role in both. Colorado has made significant investments in full-day kindergarten as a means of…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Learning Activities, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods
Vogt, Darlene – 1983
A study investigated the effectiveness of semantic mapping as a technique to improve recall of word meaning versus the traditional method of teaching vocabulary. Eight intermediate-level students from grades 4, 5, and 6, five of whom were identified as learning disabled students, were subjects. They were tested using vocabulary subtests of the…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Teaching Methods
Karbal, Harold T. – Elementary English, 1975
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading
Peer reviewedHerman, Patricia A.; Dole, Janice – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Describes principled, research-based ways to consider vocabulary instruction. Focuses on the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, the role of direct instruction, and definitional, contextual, and conceptual methods of vocabulary instruction. (SKC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
Peer reviewedAndrasick, Kathleen – English Journal, 1983
Explains several techniques for improving students' vocabulary through increasing their interest in and sensitivity to language. (JL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Usage, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedEdwards, Audrey T.; Dermott, R. Allen – Journal of Reading, 1989
Presents examples of a method that teaches vocabulary as a prereading activity using selected quotes so that students can use word parts and context clues such as transitions, connotation, and parallel syntactic structure. (RS)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Reading Skills, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Direct linkCooper, Patricia M.; Capo, Karen; Mathes, Bernie; Gray, Lincoln – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2007
The current study was designed to assess the vocabulary and literacy skills of young children who participated in an authentic literacy practice, i.e., Vivian Paley's "storytelling curriculum," over the course of their respective prekindergarten or kindergarten years. We asked: How do prekindergarten and kindergarten age children, who…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preschool Education, Standardized Tests, Young Children
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition"[R] ("CIRC") is a comprehensive reading and writing program for students in grades 2 through 8. It includes story-related activities, direct instruction in reading comprehension, and integrated reading and language arts activities. Pairs of students (grouped either by or across…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods, Intervention, Writing Processes
Shioji, Jean – 1982
Methods for second language vocabulary development in the intermediate and advanced level English classroom are described. Rather than require students to memorize lists of words, the teacher should give students a better understanding of the process of vocabulary development by showing them how to refine their use of new lexical items and implant…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Coombs, Virginia M. – 1981
This paper discusses how an understanding of speech acts contributes to the communicative competence in foreign language learning. Reviewing John Searle's five categories of speech acts (1976), the directive is discussed in terms of its manifestations in various foreign languages. Examples of directives in English, German, French, and Spanish are…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
Phelps, Patty Holland – 1979
Systematic vocabulary instruction accelerates reading progress; improves one's thought processes; and provides progress in originality, organization, and choice of words. Some school districts have experimented, with some success, with teaching Latin as a way of improving vocabulary. In addition, several studies have indicated the value of a…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Secondary Education, Latin, Reading Improvement
