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Download full textFishman, Joshua A.; And Others – 1980
A preliminary report is offered on schools that offer all or a greater part of their instruction in a language other than English. Emphasis is laid on instruction geared toward the language maintenance of ethnic communities. Language reports include the approximate number of speakers and number, distribution, and basic characteristics of schools.…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedPollmann, Thijs; Jansen, Carel – Cognition, 1996
Analyzed construction of approximative expressions with two numerals in Dutch. Found that choice of number words was not arbitrary and that various kinds of factors are involved. Results suggest that analogue magnitude code is used in estimating and comparing, and human cognition seems to be able to perform simple calculations with quantities,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Dutch, Factor Analysis
Direct linkArmstrong, E. – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2005
This paper explores the issues involved in the linguistic characterisation of disordered discourse and the ways in which a Systemic Functional Linguistic framework addresses these issues. For many years, language disorders were described in terms of formal grammars, with "breakdown" discussed in terms of one or more of the traditional levels of…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Language Impairments
Peer reviewedMariet, Francois – French Review, 1985
Reports and discusses results of a survey of French students in Middlebury College's summer language school concerning their knowledge about and interest in French newpapers and magazines and data on the circulation and readership of those publications, with emphasis on the importance of regional newspapers. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, French, Newspapers, Periodicals
Prendergast, Monica – Research in Drama Education, 2004
Performance theorist Herbert Blau's "The Audience" (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) is an important yet neglected theoretical text on theatre audience. Deconstructive, dense and allusive in nature, Blau's text creates a real challenge for his reader. This paper presents a study of "The Audience" employing what I am calling…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Poetry, Audience Response, Doctoral Dissertations
de Cos, Patricia L. – California State Library, 2004
Assembly member Carol Liu, Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Adult Education, requested that the California Research Bureau prepare a report on adult education. The legislative request specified that the following topics be covered: (1) a definition of adult education; (2) recent information on student enrollment, funding sources and…
Descriptors: Credentials, Noncredit Courses, Educational Opportunities, Adult Basic Education
