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Peer reviewedVan Der Will, Christine – Educational Studies, 1976
Describes two experiments which were conducted to investigate the responses of eight-year-old children to differently worded spoken instructions for simple tasks, for which sentence length and complexity were systematically varied. Results indicate that children's accuracy improved with shorter and slower instructions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Children, Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Elementary Education
