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Download full textRaver, Sharon A. – 1988
Children with language delays often manifest low rates of self-initiated expressive language, particularly in school settings. Children with mild to moderate language delays appear to develop this pattern as a means of coping with situations in which they believe they are unable to perform or may perform poorly. Interactive language training…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Feedback, Interpersonal Communication, Language Handicaps
Stenstrom, Anna-Brita – 1982
A study of feedback in conversational question-response exchanges focused on the questioner's feedback to the respondent. It examined three types of "followup" moves: the ordinary type revealing the questioner's attitude to the response and closing the exchange; the type signaling the questioner's reaction to the response and inviting…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Feedback, Interpersonal Communication
Thomas, Jacqueline – 1985
This paper suggests classroom activities to develop awareness of language and the sociolinguistic aspects of language proficiency and to help eliminate language prejudice. The exercises are presented in seven categories: (1) examination of connotative and denotative language, names and nicknames; (2) dialects and slang and the status attached to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism, Expressive Language, Interpersonal Communication
Wang, Min; Cameron, Catherine Ann – 1996
Language used in situations in which speakers cannot rely on shared social, physical, or historical contexts has been referred to as "decontextualized." Many researchers believe that the use of decontextualized language is at the core of literacy--that reading and writing are consummate acts of decontextualization. Somewhat intermediate…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Foreign Countries
Falk-Ross, Francine – 1996
This study examined methods of providing language evaluation and remediation services to students with language impairments in the regular classroom in order to focus on authentic classroom-based language and discourse. Evaluation was through observation of routine social uses of dialogue between students and teachers. Remedial strategies involved…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Cues
Spencer, Patricia E. – 1992
This study examined the expressive communication and language of seven hearing mothers and their deaf infants. Total communication intervention programming was begun before 9 months of age, and communication behaviors were observed during free play when infants were 12 and 18 months old. Other data were obtained in structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Early Experience, Early Intervention
