Use of Paperbacks and Visual Aids in Teaching Composition to College Freshman. Final Report [microform] / Robert B. Gilbert
- Bib ID:
- 5205696
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Gilbert, Robert B
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED035633
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1969
- 23 p.
- Summary:
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The major hypothesis tested in this investigation was that college students using audiovisual aids and current reading materials would achieve greater competency in composition than would students taught by conventional methods. The "STEP Writing Test," the "STEP Reading Test," and writing samples were used for evaluation. Also tested were the effects of an experienced teacher, as opposed to an inexperienced one, on the students' writing improvement. Two classes of students who had failed composition acted as the experimental groups, and a class of freshmen who had not previously taken a college composition course served as the control group. Experimental materials used were overhead projector transparencies on the structure of the paragraph, a picture-essay book, short films, newspapers, magazines, and paperbacks. Results showed that students taught with experimental materials (1) improved their writing, (2) enthusiastically changed their attitides toward English, (3) did not improve in reading skills, and (4) gained almost as much from an inexperienced teacher as from an experienced one. (Author/LH)
- Notes:
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- Contract Number: OEG-4-9-100016-057.
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Bureau of Research.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- College Students
- Films
- Instructional Materials
- Paragraph Composition
- Reading Improvement
- Reading Materials
- Student Attitudes
- Student Improvement
- Teaching Experience
- Teaching Methods
- Transparencies
- Writing Skills
- Audiovisual Aids
- English Instruction
- Low Achievement
- Paperback Books
- Writing (Composition)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Livingston Univ., AL
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1969
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