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Developmental Aspects of the Ability to Understand Semantic Ambiguity, with Implications for Teachers
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Brause, Rita S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Investigates the ability of adults and children to understand aspects of semantic ambiguity. (DD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
The Concept of Word in Young Children as a Function of Level of Cognitive Development.
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Templeton, Shane; Spivey, Edwinna M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
The developmental nature of the reflective concept of "word" in young children was investigated and the degree to which these developmental aspects of metalinguistic awareness correspond to levels of cognitive development as described by Piaget was studied. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research
AT LAST: "Analyses" and "Interpretations"--Are They Complementary?
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Cazden, Courtney B. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2004
In 1986, while still at Harvard, I started teaching summer school at the Bread Loaf School of English, the graduate program in English of Middlebury College. Bread Loaf offers courses in literature, theater, and writing--here I fit in. I came to that job with a background in applied linguistics and cognitive development, but not in literature, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Arts, Language Research, Summer Schools