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Peer reviewedDuckworth, Eleanor – Harvard Educational Review, 1991
Focuses on the nature of understanding by detailing the process of clinical interviewing. Examples from experiential learning in curriculum and teacher development lead to discussion of curriculum activity that celebrates the complexity of subject matter and the value of engaging learners in pursuing their own learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Curriculum Development, Difficulty Level, Educational Research
Peer reviewedRiding, R. J.; Shore, J. M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Two attempts to facilitate the aural reception of prose material in educationally subnormal children were compared. (Editor)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Comprehension, Educational Psychology, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedKatz, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedKuczaj, Stan A., II; Maratsos, Michael P. – Child Development, 1975
Presents a study which assessed preschool children's understanding of "front,""back," and "side" through a variety of tasks. A developmental sequence is defined. (ED)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes
Waxman, Stephen G. – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Hypothesis Testing, Information Theory
Peer reviewedClark, Eve V.; Sengul, C. J. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
On the basis of two experiments on comprehension, it is argued that children go through at least three stages in acquiring the deictic contrasts between "here and there," and between "this and that." Children follow different routes through these states, since they choose different starting points in mastering deitic contrasts.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedWhite, Edward; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Kindergarten through fourth graders (N=170) were tested for conservation and then interviewed following the presentation of a story about an elderly woman's death, in an attempt to assess children's understanding of 3 concepts: irrevocability, cessation of bodily processes, and universality. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Conceptual Schemes, Conservation (Concept)
Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H.; Bigi, Linda – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development
Yaakob, Parthena M. – Elementary English, 1973
Discusses how the learning of reading skills can be combined with the teaching of musical skills. (MM)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedEmerson, Harriet F. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This article discusses a study designed to ascertain the comprehension of the role of "because" in a sentence in children between the ages of 5;8 and 10;11. (CFM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHutchison, Laveria F. – Reading World, 1979
Provides a rationale for using television as a means of instruction and presents a model for capitalizing on television as a connection to reading. Includes a sample task sheet. (TJ)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedOyama, Susan – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1978
The sensitive period as a developmental concept is discussed. Observations are made on various problems involved in attempting to explain adult difficulties with second language acquisition by invoking motivational and input factors. (Author/ NQ)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Ability
Peer reviewedGaitnotti, G.; And Others – Linguistics, 1975
Results of a verbal sound and meaning discrimination test to check the hypothesis of Alajouanine et al.--that two types of paraphasics can be distinguished, phonemic and semantic--are discussed. The former are impaired in tests of auditory language discrimination, the latter show regression of the semantic values apparent in their linguistic…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Perception, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedLuria, A. R. – Linguistics, 1975
Considering Jakobson's theory that speech disorders involve defects in paradigmatic or in syntagmatic operations, and that these two categories result in different defects, this question was examined: does the syntagmatic group suffer from defects not only in contextual generation of active speech but also in comprehension of grammatical…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Cottrill, Tom; Alciatore, Robert T. – Western Speech, 1974
Compared were a programmed approach to a conventional approach. (CH)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, College Freshmen, Comprehension, Higher Education
