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Intervention in the Coherence of Narrative Discourse in Students with Developmental Language Disorder and with Typical Development (Intervención en la coherencia del discurso narrativo de alumnado con Trastorno del Desarrollo del Lenguaje y con Desarrollo Típico)
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Delgado-Cruz, Atteneri; Acosta-Rodríguez, Víctor M.; Ramírez-Santana, Gustavo M. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
The main goal of this study was to ascertain the effectiveness of an intervention programme on narrative coherence in students with Typical Development (TD) and with a Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Participants were 99 five-year-old students from schools in Tenerife. A task involving retelling a story was used for the narrative analysis,…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Attribution Theory, Program Effectiveness, Connected Discourse
Profiling Learner Language as a Dynamic System
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Han, ZhaoHong, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume sheds empirical light on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) by providing five sets of analyses of two longitudinal, interactional datasets, involving two dyads exchanging emails over one academic semester. The collective study on CDST is the first of its kind, in that it delves into multiple subsystems of learner language,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Systems Approach
Meaning-Less Differences: Exposing Fallacies and Flaws in "The Word Gap" Hypothesis That Conceal a Dangerous "Language Trap" for Low-Income American Families and Their Children
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Baugh, John – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017
The present article compares and contrasts linguistic findings from longitudinal studies of low-income Americans derived from evidence of recorded family speech interactions. Hart and Risley (1995) employed research assistants who spent 1 hour per month observing language usage among families from different socioeconomic backgrounds in their homes…
Descriptors: Low Income, Longitudinal Studies, Family Relationship, Socioeconomic Status
Wh-Questions: Linguistic Factors that Contribute to the Sequence of Acquisition.
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Bloom, Lois; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Results indicate that at least three factors contribute to the linguistic complexity of "wh-questions" and help to determine sequence of acquisitions: the syntactic function of the individual "wh-forms," the relative semantic complexity of different verbs, and contingency relations in discourse. (MP)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Performance Factors
Words in Discourse: A Dialectical Approach to the Acquisition of Meaning and Use.
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Levy, Elena; Nelson, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Word learning by young children is viewed as a problem deriving from the use of forms of discourse texts. Uses of causal and temporal terms in private speech by a child studied longitudinally from 1;9 to 3;0 are analyzed from this perspective. (Contains 38 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Topic Selection in Parent-Child Discourse.
Sachs, Jacqueline – 1978
In any successful conversation, a speaker must select both what is said and how it is said on the basis of various estimates of the listener's abilities, knowledge and interests. Most research on linguistic input to children has focused on the tendency of speakers to simplify their speech for the younger listener. Little attention has been paid to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis
Early Uses of "Big" and "Little" by Mothers and Children.
Robb, Martha; Lord, Catherine – 1981
The range of meanings of "big" and "little" that mothers and their three children under age two expressed in relatively natural communication situations was studied. Longitudinal data from transcripts of conversations of middle-class mothers and their children were analyzed along with diary records kept by parents of their children's use of size…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development