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Analogies Produced by Children in Relation to Grade Level and Linguistic Maturity.
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Rummel, Mary Kay; Dykstra, Robert – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Analyzes the developmental patterns in the production of analogy by second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade students to determine whether children use different types of analogy as they achieve linguistic maturity. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
An Investigation of the Reading Readiness Domain
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Evanechko, Peter; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Competence, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
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
A Transformational Analysis of Written Syntactic Structures of Children Representing Varying Ethno-Linguistic Communities
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Braun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Language Research
Is the Oral Language of Inner City Children Adequate for Beginning Reading Instruction?
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Levy, Beatrice K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Students, Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth
Elementary Pupils' Knowledge of the Structure of American English and the Relationship of Such Knowledge to the Ability to Use Language Effectively in Composition
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Stewig, John W.; Lamb, Pose – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Indicates a strong relationship between the various aspects of language proficiency and social class and race and discusses the complex relationships among aspects of language proficiency. (RB)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Language Research, Language Usage
The Development of Noun Plural Rules During the Primary Grades
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Koziol, Stephen M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
A Program for Linguistically Different, Black Children
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Strickland, Dorothy S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Dialects, Black Youth, Kindergarten
A Comparative Investigation of the Casual and Careful Oral Language Styles of Average and Superior Fifth Grade Boys and Girls
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Jensen, Julie M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Concludes that both average and superior students know their language, standard English predominated in the speech of all subgroups, and teachers should not have different expectations for males than they do for females. (RB)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Language Research
A Holistic View of Language.
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Shuy, Roger W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
Presents the advantages of an analytic, constructivist, holistic view of language learning and training, whether native or foreign, written or oral, productive or receptive. Argues that context (setting the linguistic forms in a communicative competence framework) is the critical issue. (HOD)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Decoding (Reading), Language Acquisition, Language Research