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Vera Kempe; Patricia J. Brooks; Steven Gillis – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), created by Brain MacWhinney and Catherine Snow in 1984, is one of the earliest Open Science and data sharing initiatives in child language development research, and probably in developmental psychology and the behavioral sciences more generally. It is the cornerstone of TalkBank--a repository of…
Descriptors: Databases, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Spolsky, Bernard; And Others – 1971
In keeping with the objective of the Navajo Reading Study, to investigate the feasibility and effect of teaching Navajo children to read their own language first, it was decided that more needs to be known about Navajo children and the language they know. Thus, between October 1969 and June 1970, 22 adult Navajo interviewers recorded free…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Graphemes
Walker, Richard F. – 1978
The Mount Gravatt Language Development and Reading Program described in this paper is the result of a conviction that teachers of reading and writing should build on the impressive and highly functional oral language system which children bring to their formal education for literacy. The paper first presents the language research on which the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
Negnevitskaya, Elena J. – 1990
A discussion of bilingualism in young children in the Soviet Union looks at the three main forms of early bilingualism (bilingual home environment, different languages spoken at home and in school, and second language instruction in school), notes the challenges they pose for development and maintenance of bilingual skills, and then describes a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques