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Dyson, Anne Haas – 1983
A study was conducted to examine the interrelationships between drawing, early writing, and the context of talk in which both phenomena occur. Participant observation methodology was used in a self-contained public school kindergarten in order to gather daily data during a 3-month period. Specifically, children freely drew and wrote in an…
Descriptors: Child Language, Freehand Drawing, Handwriting, Kindergarten
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Dyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1986
Presents observations of three children's styles of symbolic language focusing on how each leaned to different degrees on drawing and talking to create their imaginary worlds and thus faced different challenges in rendering those worlds in print. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Elementary Education, Freehand Drawing
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Dyson, Anne Haas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Examines the meanings young children express in talk, pictures, and written text, focusing on the integration of the three. Findings illustrate children's exploration of imagined worlds through drawing and talk and the potential problems children face in transferring those worlds to text. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Language, Freehand Drawing, Integrated Activities, Primary Education
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Ogura, Tamiko – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Examines, through a longitudinal study, the temporal correspondences of 4 Japanese children, aged 7 to 11, in the attainment of specific milestones in play and language. All children proceeded through the same sequence of stages, but the rate of development was different depending on their environment. (34 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition