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Formulating an ESL Theory

between grammatical and communicative approaches to second-language teaching. Grammatical approaches refer to instructional method...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Adolescent Motivation To Learn And Achieve

this youngster is challenged with massive physiological and emotional changes. This stage is called: Identity vs. Role Confusion (...

Learning Theories And Teaching Models

to associate the ringing of a bell with being fed and would subsequently salivate when the bell was rung (Encyclopedia of Educatio...

Lessons Learned From Love Canal

with earth and sold it to the city for one dollar" (Beck, 1979). Shortly thereafter a residential community and school sprouted u...

Modallity Preferences

We all have a preference in terms of how we want to receive information and how we tend to convey information. This essay describe...

Cognitive Development and Therapy

Piaget did not start out to be a developmental psychologist. He was very interested in natural sciences and did not turn to psycho...

Experiential Learning Essay: Plant Science and the Floral Industry

was the obvious fact that not everything grows equally well in all conditions. That means that a florist will be able to prepare s...

Second Language Learning

contrastive analysis studies in the 1950s and 60s consisted of "comparing pairs of languages" in order to find their areas of diff...

Article Analysis: Ten Faulty Notions about Teaching and Learning

practice impede students understanding and dull creativity; that theres no need for teachers to measure students performance; that...

Deer Hunting, Cold Weather & Learning Lesson the Hard Way

due to a fatal heart arrhythmia brought on severe hypothermia ("Hypothermia"). Stories involving hunters who have become hypothe...

Learning and Utilizing Language

the language acquisition device" (p. 255). Others say that language development is a reaction to environment. This writer/tutor ...

Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Constructivism

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

William R. Yount's Created to Learn

step by step procedure for helping learners to learn incorporating the best of the theories with the doctrine of the Christian fai...

Effective Learning through Presentations

their audience (Jarvis). Practice and experience also reduces the anxiety one feels although the most experienced presenter is sti...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

The Importance of Instilling a Familiarity With Employment Law for Employment Agency Employees

the work of Steven Corey who under took "action research", it was this research that has formed the basis of the Learning Style In...

High Textbook Costs Stifle Students' Learning Potential

apply. Basically meaning that minorities and white students with little or no visible means of support are directed, because of th...

Teaching Reading with the Fernald Method

channel, thus, giving all students the opportunity to learn through whichever channel is their strength. This approach has childre...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Online Education

classes for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical p...

Child Well Being and Learning

are contingent on the baby performing some basic skill, then what has the child internalized? Sadly, Erikson also notes that thos...

Mathematics and Creative Classroom Approaches

or curriculum used" (Pearce, 1998). To make these changes teachers must gain an...

Children's Developmental Disorders and Reading

part to the implementation of a fairly new technology: interactive computer programs. Particularly evident of this success is the...

United Nations Hight Commissioner for Refugees

consider how the organisation may learn form its experience the first stage is to consider the role and development of the United ...

Employee Training and Organizational Learning Initiatives

TQM is as much at home in the services as it is in manufacturing. At the time that TQM was at its height...

Schools of Thought Regarding Strategic Planning

achieving the proper fit between the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats (Mintzberg and L...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Analyzed

be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...