Results of three studies involving Down syndrome students suggested that the auditory-visual recall difference evidenced by nonretarded but not by retarded Ss may have been due to the differential use of information in echoic memory. (Author)

The author speculates on the mythic symbolism of the maze and describes her work with learning disabled students who responded favorably to mazes, especially to visualization tasks involving mazes. (CL)

Discusses use of slides in second-language class and gives examples of teaching identification, abstract nouns, position and agreement of adjectives, personal pronouns, prepositions, objects of destination, and verbs. Suggests use of two slide projectors to teach sentence patterns that state a relationship between two entities. (BK)

Presents case in favor of using line drawings as one of the most effective and least expensive ways of recapturing imagination in the language classroom. (Author/BK)

Among conclusions presented by a review of research on modality preference as a method for differentiating beginning reading instruction are that differentiating instruction according to modality preference apparently did not facilitate learning to read. (Author)

Supports and give examples of adding visual aids to problem-solving activities in language classroom through which teacher will inject a recreational element into learning process, foster verbal learning, and stimulate communicative interaction. (Author/BK)

Shows how visual property terms of spatial entities can be presented to technical writing students so that the students can find contrastive information about the subject-entity and develop it in their writings. (RL)

A specially designed mnemonic strategy was successful in teaching independent pronunciation skills to deaf college students. Examples of the cards showing key words (either a concrete object or dynamic action) are included. (CL)

Discusses the value and use of images as information. Topics include the information in images versus text; a taxonomy of image types; resources related to images; and the use of images in architecture, engineering, advertising, and competitive intelligence. (LRW)

Discusses the importance of calculators in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Argues that affordable graphing calculators let all mathematics students use computer visualization on a regular basis for both in-class and out-of-class activities. (ASK)

In two experiments, children and adults made judgments about drawings of a person walking or running. The drawings varied according to whether action lines, background lines, or no lines were present. Seven and nine year olds offered equivalent judgments of action and background lines, whereas adults distinguished between these devices. (BC)

Re-creation, the technique of redrawing a painting, rewriting a poem, etc., enables students to distill the essence of the original, developing both their critical understanding of it as well as their own creative expression. (SK)

Describes five approaches to learning styles that may be of interest to college teachers. Presents a short background to learning styles including some of the research that has been generated over the last couple of decades. Discusses the modalities approach, which refers to the three basic ways people learn: visually, auditorily, and haptically.…

This essay demonstrates how visual works of art may operate rhetorically to articulate public knowledge, to illustrate the moral challenges facing citizens, and to shape commemorative practices, through an analysis of Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s. By examining the rhetorical aspects of these paintings, including their form…