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How Feedback from a Listener Affects Children's Referential Communciation Skills.

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Sonnenschein, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1984

Investigates how feedback from a listener helps kindergarteners attend to message quality and how such feedback affects speaking and listening skills. Results indicate that kindergarteners learn to assess message adequacy by observing listeners flounder with inadequate messages.(Author/AS)

Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Communication Skills

Elicited Imitation Revisited: A Comparison with Spontaneous Language Production.

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Fujiki, Martin; Brinton, Bonnie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987

Thirteen subjects (aged 5:6 to 6:6) with language disorders were given elicited imitation and spontaneous language tasks, and their performance was compared among and within subjects. The two procedures produced significantly correlated results for some children but not for others. Analysis of specific syntactic forms also produced variable…

Descriptors: English Instruction, Expressive Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition