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Tannock, Rosemary – 1980
This master's thesis focuses on the relationship between children's development of communicative competence and patterns of communication between children and their primary caregivers. An overview of major changes, since the 1950s, in the theoretical and empirical approaches to language development is presented in Chapter II. Within this overview,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Intervention, Language Acquisition
MacGeorge, Nancy – 1984
A study was conducted to determine the effects of word imagery on the retention of sight vocabulary. It was hypothesized that in an urban, low income area first grade class there would be no significant difference between the acquisition and retention rates of high imagery words and those of low imagery words. Using one group of high imagery words…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Grade 1, Imagery
Romano, Maria – 1984
A study was conducted to determine what specific activities parents use to develop language in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first and second grade children. A questionnaire about language related activities consisted of general information regarding the parents and children, followed by 15 statements that the parents checked according to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Download full textScipio, Vonda – Online Submission, 2006
The present study investigated early literacy development in minority middle-class families. The subjects were parents and preschool children ages 3-5 that attended a private early childhood center in Irvington, New Jersey. Each family was given one home visit and a library visit. The literacy practices of the families were observed and recorded…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Qualitative Research, Home Visits, Emergent Literacy
Bouchard, Kathy A. – 1983
A study investigated the writing processes of four fourth grade students--two girls and two boys--as they participated in an 18-session writing workshop. The sessions were held three times a week for 6 weeks, each lasting 45-minutes. Data were collected through (1) observations of the children as they interacted and composed, revised, edited,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Childhood Attitudes
Ihata, Anne C. – 1993
This study investigated patterns of acquisition of English and Japanese by a toddler, aged 16-23 months, living in Japan. The child's mother and father are British and Japanese, respectively. The focus of the study was on early grammatical morpheme and transformational rule acquisition as demonstrated in the child's utterances. The study is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Cultural Pluralism
