Outlines work suggesting that research into children's learning of linguistic structure has progressed little in the last decade or so, identifying attitudinal and methodological difficulties, and suggesting a comparative method for identifying learning strategies as developed by individual children. (MP)

A research review of the relationship between children's oral language proficiency and the development of linguistic awareness and learning to read. (CM)

Researchers from several disciplines have contributed to the realization that context or social situation varies in regard to a child's language acquisition. Children acquire both linguistic competence, the unconscious understanding of grammatical rules, and communicative competence, the understanding that language is used differently in different…

Although educational psychologists are concerned with the acquisition of knowledge, particularly in the classroom, language acquisition and knowledge of language are areas slighted in their textbooks. Integration of developmental psycholinguistics into educational psychology courses should employ the recently emerging rationalist view rather than…