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Peer reviewedMorrow, Lesley Mandel – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Data in this study showed significant linguistic differences between six- and seven-year-olds and a leveling-off between the seven- and eight-year-olds. (DD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedEmig, Janet – Research in the Teaching of English, 1972
Author brings together from some major sources what we know about metaphor and suggests some questions for systematic study concerning children and metaphor. (Editor)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedLoban, Walter – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Recognizes and praises the research of Margaret Donaldson for what it reveals about children's thinking and highlights three central contributions of her work to the understanding of children's language learning. (HOD)
Descriptors: Awards, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1988
Offers an interpretive frame for viewing children's growth as creators of imaginative worlds. Suggests that writing development depends not only on children's discovery of cognitive and linguistic strategies but on children's discovery that writing can help authors create coherence in their worlds beyond texts. (MS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Childrens Art, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLevy, Beatrice K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Students, Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedEndicott, Anthony L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedKoziol, Stephen M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedVeal, L. Ramon; Tillman, Murray – Research in the Teaching of English, 1971
Presents evidence that written responses to modality develop from a homogeneous writing quality to a more heterogeneous writing quality with some modes systematically favored over others." (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Writing, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedSmith, Charlotte T. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Concluded that factual questions appear to inhibit the higher cognitive processes of grade 2 and grade 4 subjects, while the interpretive questions stimulate the higher cognitive processes. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Peer reviewedWatson, Rita – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Describes two studies of word meaning acquisition among children. Concludes that (1) even very young children can learn new words and their meanings on basis of linguistic expressions and in absence of direct experience with referents, and (2) that particular forms of discourse (e.g., narrative and dialogue) can render new meanings more accessible…
Descriptors: Child Language, Definitions, Educational Research, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Examines the meanings young children express in talk, pictures, and written text, focusing on the integration of the three. Findings illustrate children's exploration of imagined worlds through drawing and talk and the potential problems children face in transferring those worlds to text. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Language, Freehand Drawing, Integrated Activities, Primary Education
Peer reviewedDillon, David; Searle, Dennis – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
Investigates the role of pupil language in classroom learning through an ethnographic study of one "good" teacher and her class, particularly three average and above-average pupils. (HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
Peer reviewedHanf, Marilyn Buckley – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conceptual Schemes
Peer reviewedEdelsky, Carole – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Nine first-grade, nine second-grade, and eight third-grade children of migrant farm workers provided the data for a descriptive study of writing development in a bilingual program. (FL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Child Development, Child Language, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedStahl, Abraham – Research in the Teaching of English, 1974
A rating instrument for describing nine structural characteristics of written compositions is presented and explained. (JH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Evaluation Methods
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