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Belme, Jillian – 1981
The influence of five programs of the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project on the development of preschool children's vocabulary and syntactical skills was assessed in a pretest/posttest design. Programs differed in the amount of structure they imposed on the language experiences of the children and in the content they specified. Different measures…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMercer, Neil; Wegerif, Rupert; Dawes, Lyn – British Educational Research Journal, 1999
Evaluates a teaching program called TRAC (Talk, Reasoning, and Computers) that is used for scaffolding children's effective use of language as a tool for reasoning and collaborative activity. Finds that using the TRAC program can increase the amount of exploratory talk used by children working together in the classroom. (CMK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Group Activities
