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Benner, Gregory J.; Mooney, Paul – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Uses a quasi-experimental design to compare the social adjustment of 21 children who received the Language for Learning program with those of 24 children enrolled in a comparison school. Finds that the Language for Learning program produced statistically and educationally significant effects, including improvements in social skills and reductions…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; Levin, Joel R. – 1973
Children in kindergarten, third grade, and fifth grade were presented a list of either pictures or words (with items presented varying numbers of times on the study trail). In both picture and word conditions, half of the subjects estimated how many times each item had been presented (absolute judgments) and the other half judged which of two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning

Baechle, Cathy L.; Ming-Gon, John Lian – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
This study of 52 learning-disabled children, aged 8-13, found that direct feedback and practice improved metaphor interpretation. The approach was highly successful in teaching students to generalize concrete concepts to abstract ones. Further descriptive analyses indicated that grade and reading levels of subjects correlated with metaphor…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Feedback

Wade, Barrie – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Discusses the value of rhymes in developing children's concepts of story and pleasure in reading. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Elementary Education

Doak, J. Linward; Walker, Jo Ann – 1976
This study focused on elementary children's shift from syntagmatic to paradigmatic word association and their consistency in responding again with the same word. Subjects, 128 children ranging from first through sixth grade in the Model Laboratory School (Richmond, Kentucky), were presented with 20 structural words and 20 lexical words. The…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Child Language, Elementary Education

Laski, Karen E.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1988
Parents of four nonverbal and four echolalic autistic children, aged five-nine, were trained to increase their children's speech by using the Natural Language Paradigm. Following training, parents increased the frequency with which they required their children to speak, and children increased the frequency of their verbalizations in three…
Descriptors: Autism, Echolalia, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication
BRITTON, JAMES – 1968
EVEN MORE THAN A RATIONAL ANIMAL, MAN IS A SYMBOLIZING ANIMAL, CREATING HIS OWN CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY. INSTRUMENTAL TO THIS PROCESS IS LANGUAGE, FOR IT PROVIDES THE BEST MEANS FOR STRUCTURING BOTH PAST AND FUTURE EXPERIENCE. THE VERBALIZATION OF BOTH PERSONAL AND VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE MAKES US REEVALUATE AND RESTRUCTURE OUR…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Parti, Michael; Adelman, Irma – 1971
This study identifies the policy variables that are effective in increasing student verbal achievement in urban grammar schools and high schools, and estimates the impact of these variables upon verbal achievement, expected years of education completed by a typical student, and expected lifetime earnings of a typical student. A theoretical model…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Accountability, Elementary Education