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Hymes, Dell – Journal of Education, 1982
Analyzes samples of American Indian oral narrative forms to demonstrate that patterning in the narrative structure (such as systematic recurrence of lines) may embody an explicit logic of experience and rhetoric of action. Suggests that patterning occurs in the language of any community, a fact that has implications for teaching language to…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, Children, Disclosure
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Kopcke, Klaus-Michael – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Investigates whether inflectional morphology is rule-based or whether the assumption of pattern association is more adequate to account for the facts, arguing for the latter based on analysis of acquisitional data. Review of earlier literature on the subject examines experiments with German- and English-speaking children and supports the schema…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, German
Mackey, William Francis – 1974
This paper notes the progress made in many countries towards the use of two or three languages in children's education. It is recommended that bilingual education focus on more than linguistic activities and include the study of the history and culture of all languages involved. This combination of bilingual and bicultural education aids in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism, Child Language
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Ingram, David; Ingram, Kelly D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
This article introduces a whole-word approach to phonological analysis and demonstrates the approach by conducting an analysis and outlining treatment recommendations for a child with phonological disability. Rationale for using a whole-word approach and also for defining phonological typologies are presented, along with four components of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gierut, Judith A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
The construct of complexity has been advanced as a variable in the efficacy of treatment for children with functional phonological disorders. This article focuses on clinical complexity as it influences selection of target sounds, with three clinical factors reviewed: consistency of error, normative age of acquisition, and number of errors.…
Descriptors: Age, Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages
Donmall, B. Gillian, Ed. – 1985
Papers sponsored by the Language Awareness Working Party, a task force of Great Britain's National Congress on Languages in Education concerned with common concerns of professionals in all areas of native and second language instruction, include: "The Report of the Language Awareness Working Party"; "Language Awareness in Six Easy…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Children