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Leanne Bowler; Irene Lopatovska; Mark S. Rosin – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore teen-adult dialogic interactions during the co-design of data literacy activities in order to determine the nature of teen thinking, their emotions, level of engagement, and the power of relationships between teens and adults in the context of data literacy. This study conceives of co-design as a…
Descriptors: Librarians, Adolescents, Language Patterns, Public Libraries
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Finley, Sara – Cognitive Science, 2012
Traditional flat-structured bigram and trigram models of phonotactics are useful because they capture a large number of facts about phonological processes. Additionally, these models predict that local interactions should be easier to learn than long-distance ones because long-distance dependencies are difficult to capture with these models.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Phonology, Phonemes, Models
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Reuterskiold, Christina; Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This study explored retention of idioms and novel (i.e. newly created or grammatically generated) expressions in English-speaking girls following exposure only once during a conversation. Our hypothesis was that idioms, because of their inherent holistic, nonliteral and social characteristics, are acquired differently and more rapidly than novel…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Figurative Language, Familiarity, Females
Erker, Daniel Gerard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines a major linguistic event underway in New York City. Of its 10 million inhabitants, nearly a third are speakers of Spanish. This community is socially and linguistically diverse: Some speakers are recent arrivals from Latin America while others are lifelong New Yorkers. Some have origins in the Caribbean, the historic source of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonemes
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Ilieva, Gabriela Nik. – Heritage Language Journal, 2012
The present paper examines the oral performance of Hindi language learners during practice Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI) conducted during workshops hosted by New York University and sponsored by STARTALK. The most salient characteristics of the heritage language learners' output are compared with the output of foreign language learners who are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
COWAN, J. M. – 1963
THIS 2-PART REPORT DEALT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR GRAPHICALLY RECORDING SPEECH INTONATIONS. THE APPENDIXES GAVE DETAILS OF CIRCUITRY AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE PITCH MATCHING DEVICE AND THE INTONATION PLAYBACK. (THIS REPORT IS A SUPPLEMENT TO ED 003 881.) (LP)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistics, Perception, Phonetic Analysis
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Jasinski, James – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007
In August 1843 Presbyterian minister Henry Highland Garnet delivered his "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" to the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, NY. While often read (and almost as often dismissed) as either an unqualified call for a violent slave rebellion or, at the least, a celebration of…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Violence, Masculinity, Language Patterns
BELLACK, ARNO A.; AND OTHERS – 1963
A METHODOLOGY WAS DEVELOPED TO DESCRIBE THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLASSROOM BY CONSIDERING--(1) PEDAGOGICAL MOVES OF STRUCTURING, SOLICITING, RESPONDING, AND REACTING, (2) SUBSTANTIVE MEANINGS, (3) SUBSTANTIVE-LOGICAL MEANINGS, (4) INSTRUCTIONAL MEANINGS, AND (5) INSTRUCTIONAL-LOGICAL MEANINGS. A PROCEDURE WAS ALSO DEVELOPED FOR CHARACTERIZING THE…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Language Patterns, Language Research, Learning
LABOV, WILLIAM; AND OTHERS – 1965
CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ON DIFFERENCES IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION WERE STUDIED IN A PRELIMINARY PROJECT. DURING A 5-MONTH PERIOD, 75 EXPLORATORY AND 25 SUPPLEMENTARY TAPE INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INTERVIEWS WERE RECORDED FOR PREADOLESCENT, ADOLESCENT, AND ADULT NEGRO SUBJECTS. THE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE WAS…
Descriptors: Blacks, Ethnic Groups, Interviews, Language Patterns
DELATTRE, PIERRE – 1960
THIS PAPER WAS PRESENTED AT A TWO-PART CONFERENCE ON PLANNING AND OPERATING LANGUAGE LABORATORIES. DISCUSSED WERE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF CONSTRUCTING TESTS OF ORAL PRODUCTION. TEST EXAMPLES WERE GIVEN IN FRENCH. METHODS FOR DEVELOPING MORE OBJECTIVE TEST PROGRAMS WERE PRESENTED. THIS DOCUMENT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 003 919-ED 003 924, AND ED 003…
Descriptors: French, Language Laboratories, Language Patterns, Language Tests
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Wible, Scott – College Composition and Communication, 2006
This essay examines a Brooklyn College-based research collective that placed African American languages and cultures at the center of the composition curriculum. Recovering such pedagogies challenges the perception of the CCCC's 1974 "Students' Right to Their Own Language" resolution as a progressive theory divorced from the everyday…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Writing Instruction, African Americans, Black Dialects
FIFE, AUSTIN E.; NIELSEN, MARION L. – 1961
A CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, AND SPANISH. DISCUSSIONS WERE CENTERED ON (1) DETERMINING CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF NEGLECTED LANGUAGES WORTHY OF INCREASED STUDY, (2) SELECTING A LIST OF LANGUAGES MEETING THE CRITERIA, (3) A…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Communication Problems, Conferences, Educational Needs
CHILDERS, J. WESLEY; AND OTHERS – 1961
A NATIONWIDE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION CURRICULUMS. FOUR TYPES OF QUESTIONNAIRES WERE DEVELOPED FOR (1) LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES, (2) TEACHERS COLLEGES, (3) GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND (4) GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION, AND ADDRESSED TO 1,058 OF THESE INSTITUTIONS. A TOTAL OF 758 REPORTED THAT THEY…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Research, Higher Education, Language Instruction
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Torres, Lourdes – World Englishes, 1989
Examines code mixing and borrowing across two generations of New York Puerto Ricans, and explores the possibility of existence of a lifecycle of language use in the community. (26 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
New York Public Library, NY. – 1974
This third edition of a bibliography originally published in 1963 under the title "Puerto Rico" is a selected list of significant materials in both Spanish and English. The title of this new edition, "Borinquen," is the Spanish form of the original Indian name of the island which was later called Puerto Rico. The contents are…
Descriptors: American History, Audiodisc Recordings, Bibliographies, Biographies
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