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Byrnes, James P.; Wasik, Barbara A. – Guilford Press, 2019
This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are acquired and how they affect children's later reading and writing achievement. With a unique focus on the needs of educators, the book examines the foundations of language in the developing brain. It explores the relationship of language processes to core…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Emergent Literacy, Predictor Variables
Suzuki, Wataru, Ed.; Storch, Neomy, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging authors from around the globe. They report on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
Arteaga, Deborah, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
The chapters in this volume, all written by experts in the field, present an array of new research on second language acquisition (SLA) that touches on several current theoretical debates in the field and present a rich range of new empirical data and a number of innovative findings. The studies address questions relating to ultimate attainment,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, Transfer of Training
Ice, Marie – 1986
To determine the relationship between oral and written language conventions at the macro and micro levels, a study analyzed various elements of stories generated by children. Subjects, nine above average readers between grades 4 and 9, were asked to tell a story and then to write a story. Sources of stories, overall plot organization, and number…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Ragan, Peter H. – 1987
Language is used to realize different intentions, and the patterns of wording that have evolved in language bear a natural relationship to the meanings they have evolved to express. Despite the diversity in the way texts (content) are encoded, they may be traced to the contexts in which they communicate meaning, indicating a form-function…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Clues, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies
Hodges, Richard E., Ed.; Rudorf, E. Hugh, Ed. – 1972
Written by teachers, linguists, psychologists, and reading specialists, this book elucidates the relationship between reading and language, and explains why reading should be regarded as a language-based process. The book is divided into eight sections, each of which includes an introduction and sources for further reading. The essays for each…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Stansell, John C.; Moss, R. Kay – 1983
Language is a complex social event. The rules determining its use vary with (1) the language field--the subject, text, and purpose; (2) the tenor of the social interaction; and (3) the mode or type of communication being used. The impact of the field, tenor, and mode on language use is reflected in a college student's retelling of a story to a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Smith, Frank – 1983
Viewing literacy as the ability to make use of all available possibilities of written language, the essays in this collection deal with a broad range of literacy related topics and issues. Titles of the 13 essays, written over a 10-year period, are as follows: (1) "The Politics of Ignorance"; (2) "Twelve Easy Ways to Make Learning to Read…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Language Acquisition
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1983
This Manitoba (Canada) integrated language arts curriculum guide for grades 9 through 11 emphasizes the elements of the language process. At grade 9, the instructional emphasis is on the communication context--content, vehicle, and situation. At grade 10, the instructional emphasis is on audience and purpose, while the emphasis at grade 11 shifts…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Goodman, Yetta M.; Wilde, Sandra – 1985
Focusing on children's production of written language, a two-year study, conducted on the Oodham (Papago) Indian Reservation in Arizona, explored social context, linguistic systems, and the creation of meaning as aspects of the writing process. Ten American Indian children in third and fourth grade provided over 200 stories that formed the basic…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Child Development, Cultural Background, Elementary Education