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DiStefano, Philip P.; Hagerty, Patricia J. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that rather than using a spelling series and treating spelling as a subject separate from the other language arts, teachers should use a program that begins with encouraging invented spelling and moves to the use of high frequency word lists and spelling by meaning. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Acquisition

Cambourne, Brian – English in Australia, 1983
Relates some of the observations made of a kindergarten classroom over a two-year period in which teachers simulated as many conditions as possible with respect to a natural "learning-how-to-write" situation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Kindergarten

Manzo, Anthony V. – Reading Psychology, 1982
Presents a method and rationale for enhancing verbal learning in a typical reading-language arts lesson through personal and group generated images and associations. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Goodhall, P. E. – 1977
This pamphlet is the third in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. Specifically, the pamphlet presents ideas drawn from a five-year…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Van Dongen, Richard – Insights into Open Education, 1986
The focus of this paper is on how children use print, or literate language, in school and how teachers can respond and work with children. Beginning with a literature review, the paper discusses language use and literate language development in young children, pointing out that children construct their experiences through using language, and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Carswell, F. F. A.; Carswell, R. J. B. – 1977
This pamphlet is the first in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. The pamphlet contains a description of an informal study…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Expressive Language

Gorbet, Frances – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Discusses the value of classifying the errors adult language learners make and of comparing them to errors made by children. It is suggested that teachers correct student errors in the same way parents correct children's errors in order to encourage successful learning. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Cognitive Processes