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Peer reviewedWood, H.A.; Wood, D.J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1984
Experimentally tests for direction of causality in negative correlations previously found between a measure of teacher control of conversation and measures of deaf primary school children's initiative and loquacity. Results show that as teachers change style, their students follow them, exhibiting changes in initiative and mean length of turn. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Classroom Communication, Communication Research
Peer reviewedShiro, Martha – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Examined Venezuelan children's developing abilities to use evaluative language in fictional and personal narratives. Looks at whether the use of evaluative language varies in fictional and personal narratives, there is a relationship between the use of evaluative language in these two narrative genres, and and the role children's age and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Styles
Peer reviewedCicognani, Elvira; Zani, Bruna – Language and Education, 1992
In a study of the verbal environment, teachers' language was analyzed in two different interactive contexts: when interacting with a different number of interlocutors, and when talking to children of different linguistic competence. Results show that in both interactive contexts teachers tend to adapt their linguistic style to the characteristics…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Download full textMinami, Masahiko – 1990
The conversational narratives of 17 Japanese children aged 5 to 9 were analyzed using stanza analysis. Three distinctive features emerged: (1) the narratives are exceptionally succinct; (2) they are usually free-standing collections of three experiences; and (3) stanzas almost always consist of three lines. These features reflect the basic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Minami, Masahiko – 1996
This paper examines two studies on language development and narrative discourse structure by looking at how language shapes and is shaped by culture-specific experiences. Conversations between 20 middle-class Japanese preschoolers, aged 4-5 years old, and their mothers were analyzed to study differences in narrative elicitation by mothers towards…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Farris, Catherine S. – 1988
This research study explores how sex role identity is related to the learning of communication and socialization processes in a Taiwanese kindergarten. The study hypothesized that undifferentiated baby-style verbal and nonverbal communication patterns are superceded with styles that become increasingly gender-linked, and language is viewed as a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Chinese Culture, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
