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Woodward, Virginia A. – 1982
Evidence from the language use of young children is used to question accepted notions of language development and instruction in the three papers in this compilation. The first paper, "Young Children Challenge the Belief That Language Needs to be Taught Sequentially," challenges the notion of sequential development in which oral language…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition

Wolfram, Walt – 1979
Discussions in speech and language pathology often contain references to language differences and the ways these differences compare with speech and language disorders. There is ongoing research on the regional varieties of English, and within the past decade, information on social and ethnic variation in language has been accumulating. Based on…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes