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Peer reviewedBuss, Kathleen Telepak – Reading Psychology, 1984
Reviews the concept that the melodic features of language play a major role in a child's acquisition of both oral and book language. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Rhythm, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedHaley-James, Shirley M. – Language Arts, 1982
Observes that children are ready to write when they understand what writing does, when they are interested in writing, when they want to communicate through writing, and when they understand that written symbols represent meaning. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Primary Education, Student Attitudes, Student Development
Harste, Jerome C. – 1980
Children's early writing is analyzed in this paper according to different perspectives such as function, grapho-phonemics, syntax, and semantics. Emphasis is given to the semantic perspective of decoding the text and to the study of coherence in text as it is viewed by the reader. Proposition analysis is used to map the coherence of samples of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Coherence, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Download full textTempleton, Shane; Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1980
In its broadest sense, metalinguistic awareness refers to the study of or reflection upon language as an object--the form and structure of language rather than the content, the way in which the form expresses or relates to the message. One value of research on metalinguistic awareness lies in its potential for testing adult notions about the ways…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment
Goodman, Yetta M., Comp.; And Others – 1981
The papers in this collection focus on the integration of child language development research into curriculum and instruction, which was the general topic of four conferences held in conjunction with the 1979 and 1980 annual conventions of the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. Section one, on child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Environment, Curriculum
Blass, Rosanne J. – 1980
Reflecting the work of Yetta Goodman on child language development, this paper examines Goodman's five "roots of literacy" and offers suggestions on classroom techniques for nurturing these roots. The first half of the paper explains how Goodman identified the roots of literacy and describes each of them, including (1) print awareness in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Techniques
Evans, Charlotte – 1998
A review of literature focuses on the literacy acquisition process of deaf children who acquire American Sign Language (ASL) as a first language and written English as a second language. Literacy in this context is defined broadly to include the context and culture in which reading and writing occur, referring to the strong connection between…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Child Language, Children
