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Chen, Margaret – 1979
This paper investigates the development of negative Wh-questions in a four year old subject acquiring English as her L1. Spontaneous and elicited speech samples were collected over a period of 6 months. During the course of the study, the subject began to invert subject and auxiliary, and by the end of the study she was inverting correctly in 38%…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Nadeau, Adela; And Others – 1975
This study describes the kindergarten to level 3 curriculum of a bilingual-bicultural education program at Nestor Elementary School in Imperial Beach, California, under E.S.E.A. Title VII. It discusses the specific program environment and classroom organization used to implement the curriculum. The curriculum is divided into four main strands:…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
Flora, June Annette – 1976
Kindergarten and first-grade children participated in a study of the role of reciprocal and inversion reversibility in language acquisition and cognitive development. Subjects completed cognitive tasks assessing conservation, seriation, and class inclusion, and language tasks assessing the active-passive transformation and the negative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Doctoral Dissertations
Brause, Rita Susan – 1975
The hypothesized relationship between an individual's age, educational background, and ability to understand aspects of semantic ambiguity was investigated in this study. The 90 subjects included ten students in each of grades two, four, six, eight, and ten, as well as ten college undergraduates, ten graduate students, ten high school graduates,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Ambiguity, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Kroot, Nancy Egel – 1976
This study investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the responses of children aged four, six, and eight to four kinds of questions; cognitive memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative. The subjects, 48 boys and girls, were from advantaged homes and had attended, or were attending, nursery school. Each subject was shown a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Hoover, John J. – 1978
The thesis presents a literature review of selected characteristics of learning disabled children and the relationship between these characteristics and reading. Thirty-three characteristics are discussed, divided into three categories: selected cognitive abilities, speech and language development, and selected behavioral and emotional-social…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
Brown, Marianne Gerdes – 1974
The purposes of this study were to develop a theory from a humanities program in the elementary school and to implement the theory by designing prototypes in the humanities for kindergarten through the second grade. The method used in developing the theory was library research. The humanities were limited, for purposes of the study, to include…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives
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Ben-Zeev, Sandra – 1972
This dissertation abstract summarizes a research study which investigated the hypothesis that bilingualism in children would result in: (1) increased ability to analyze syntax; (2) acceleration in the time of arrival of the stage of concrete operational thinking; and (3) an increase in cognitive flexibility or ability to mentally shuffle material.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Forbes, Norma – 1972
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the effects of bilingualism on cognitive growth and on the bilingual's attitude toward himself and his 2 language communities. One of the most widely quoted studies on bilingualism is that of Peal and Lambert (1962) who dealt with the relation between intelligence, attitude, and achievement in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Mihail, Brunette A. – 1986
Focusing on spelling as an integral part of the writing process, this annotated bibliography addresses the problem of developing individualized, focused, and relevant methods for teaching spelling to elementary students. The annotations are organized around two specific questions: What strategies do children use to spell words and what…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
Harber, Jean Rosner – 1976
This research studied the effects of abstract-reasoning ability, degree of bidialectism, and grade level on listening comprehension tasks presented in both Standard English and Black English and on oral reading and oral-reading comprehension tasks presented in Standard English, Black English standard orthography, and Black English nonstandard…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Black Dialects, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth