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Peer reviewedTovey, Duane R. – Language Arts, 1976
Encourages teachers to evaluate the appropriateness of language activities in the light of the language competencies children possess. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Download full textMickelson, Norma I.; Galloway, Charles G. – 1969
The present language study, carried out by the University of Victoria and the Department of Indian Affairs during the summer of 1968, was based on the Deutsch "cumulative deficit hypothesis." (This theory has as one of its bases the idea that the lack of appropriate language stimulation in early home and school life makes success in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth, English (Second Language)
WOLFE, DAVID L. – 1967
BECAUSE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FOR A CHILD IS AN UNCONSCIOUS PROCESS, FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM SHOULD AVOID "CONSCIOUS" LEARNING PROCEDURES AND STRIVE FOR A NATURAL SITUATION. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FOR AN ADULT IS AN ARTIFICIAL, CONSCIOUS PROCESS, HOWEVER, AND NECESSITATES DIFFERENT TEACHING METHODS AND…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Contrastive Linguistics, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationDeVito, Joseph A., Comp. – 1973
This bibliography, which emphasizes material published between 1957 and 1972, is centered on studies about the normal child's acquisition and development of his first language. Material dealing with handicaps, deviant language development, and second language learning is not included unless it is significantly related to studies of the normal…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Language, Communication Skills
National Council of Teachers of English, Champaign, IL. Commission on the English Curriculum. – 1954
This volume on elementary language programs is divided into four related parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of any effective language program: an understanding of the child's need for language, a knowledge of child development, and an awareness of the continuity essential to growth in language. Part 2 treats the main areas of the language…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Child Development, Class Activities, Curriculum Development
Koppe, Julia – 1976
This paper examines a didactic model of teaching-learning which underlies the approach of many teachers and linguists, and proposes an organic interaction model, which recognizes children's individual needs and characteristics, instead. Problems in interpreting test results in areas of primary or oral language and in the secondary language skills…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Child Development, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
PDF pending restorationDesjarlais, Lionel; Lazar, Avrim – 1976
This is the final report of the project entitled "A Study to Determine the Degree of Relationship between Linguistic Concepts and Structures in French as a Mother Tongue and Stages of Psychological Readiness of Students at the Junior and Intermediate Levels." The project's primary aim was to determine the psychological readiness, with…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development
Ekstrand, Lars Henric – 1978
This report is a compilation of five research papers in second language acquisition and immigrant adaptability that are part of studies conducted in Sweden over the last twenty years. (1) "Language teaching and psycho-physics" discusses basic measurement problems in the assessment of second language proficiency, where testing of writing and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students
