ERIC Number: ED272947
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1984-Jul
Pages: 79
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Beyond Tradition: Innovative Enhancement of Oral Language in the Classroom.
Cornick, Craig M.; Thomas, Timothy M.
Written and developed to assist speech and language clinicians in the ongoing process of providing support for classroom teachers in their efforts to enhance the oral language of their students, this manual provides a rationale and intervention activities for improving oral language in the classroom. The manual first discusses research supporting direct instruction in oral communication skills. It then describes previous studies conducted by area education agencies in Iowa to determine students' mean length of responses in the classroom setting and teachers' assessment of performance of speech and language impaired students. It also reports on a survey of teachers indicating that speech and language clinicians should become more actively involved in teaching oral language in the public schools. Next the manual describes procedures and results of a project to determine mean length response rates for a group of summer school students, to study and develop simple procedures for speech clinicians to assist teachers, and to develop an inservice guide for speech clinicians to that end. It also outlines the inservice procedure. Finally, the manual discusses the initiation of intervention procedures, which focused on those teacher prompts that yielded the highest response lengths during questioning ("how,""why," and "tell me"). The teacher survey, classroom probe for oral language, and results of daily mean length responses to instructor prompts before and after intervention are appended. A three-page bibliography concludes the document. (HTH)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines.
Identifiers - Location: Iowa
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