The use of radio material for foreign language study is not new, but it has largely been limited to students at the advanced level. The concept of listening to authentic material at a very early stage of language learning is promoted, and using radio commercials effectively as supplementary materials in language classes is discussed. (SL)

Discusses the radio program "News of the Week," broadcast over all Third Program stations in Germany, with regard to its suitability for English teaching in the schools. Reports experience gained from an augmented course taught in the second semester of the 11th grade. Transfer-phase and other exercises are presented. (IFS/WGA)

School radio is useful if it has motivating power and can be understood and acted out by the students. The series "English for Juniors" is recommended as an example. Methodological points for the teaching of weaker students are presented. (IFS/WGA)

Instructional radio is a relatively low cost technology which can deliver effective educational programs to any school capable of receiving broadcasts, however remote the school might be. This paper explores the Radio Language Arts Project (RLAP), an application of instructional radio technology to the teaching of English as a foreign language.…

The Office of Learning Resources at the State University of New York at Oswego was created to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of teaching and learning by providing a wide variety of options to traditional classroom activities. The office encourages the development of teaching styles that best meet the needs of individual students by…

Because mass media form one of the most important means of adult education, this two-volume textbook teaches the educational uses of radio. Instructions and sample scripts are included for talk, interview, discussion, magazine, feature, and drama programs. Each section is followed by questions to test the student's memory of basic concepts and…

Recent interest may indicate increasing use of radio in foreign language learning despite some of the very realistic obstacles that face the beginner. Shortwave radio can be used imaginatively in a variety of ways, including: (1) increasing the reality, currency, and accuracy of listening comprehension skills; (2) actual communication with…

Discusses the 1977 convention of the All Japan Teachers' Federation for studying the use of radio and television in education and formal school education (Zemporen). A topic of interest was whether broadcasts should be prepared in advance or used live; the consensus was that teachers will use programs in ways that suit their own teaching methods.…

An experiment testing for the learning differences between students who received BBC radio broadcasts as part of instruction and those whose instruction was based on conventional teacher notes. (HB)

Analyzes a segment from the Austrian radio series "Grammar with a Smile," dealing with the future tense. Criticizes the dialog as not true to life and lacking in motivating power. Ends with suggestions for alternatives. (IFS/WGA)

This publication provides detailed information for teachers on 56 instructional radio broadcast offerings for South Carolina schools. In the table of contents, grade levels are suggested for each program. The guide then summarizes each program lesson briefly and suggests classroom activities related to the radio lesson. For some programs,…

In this field experiment, first and second grade children were given the opportunity to listen to radio instruction coordinated with a television cartoon. The experimenters measured to what extent children watched the cartoon, listened to the radio instruction, and learned vocabulary words taught via radio. (Author)

National Public Radio's educational staff is experimenting with radio in the classroom by dramatizing the issues of the Afghan crisis in an audiodisc presentation mailed to teachers around the country. The article includes samples of dialogue from the tape, student opinions, and why radio is the medium used. (CT)

The Radio Mathematics Project was established to design, implement, and evaluate a prototype system of teaching elementary mathematics using radio as the major medium of instruction. The project, working in rural and urban primary schools in Nicaragua, presents daily mathematics lessons in second and third grade classrooms. Each lesson has a 30…