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Sternglass, Marilyn S.; Pugh, Sharon Lynn – Written Communication, 1986
Looks at the nature of introspective accounts and the usefulness of such accounts in studies of the composing process. Concludes that retrospective journal accounts are a rich source of information because they permit consideration of the complex context in which composing occurs. (FL)
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Berent, Gerald P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This article explores 46 deaf college students' knowledge of English wh-question formation in the context of government-binding theory and an associated learnability theory. Results of two learnability tasks revealed that, despite years of exposure to English language input, many deaf learners had not internalized the positive evidence required to…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Expressive Language, Grammar
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Schmid, Euline Cutrim – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This article reports on a qualitative study concerning the use of interactive whiteboard (IWB) technology in the teaching of English for Academic Purposes (EAP)/Study Skills to international students. The study was carried out at a British University in the summers of 2003 and 2004. Its primary aim was to throw detailed light on the potential of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Questionnaires, Program Effectiveness, Learning Processes
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Erneling, Christina – Interchange, 1993
Paper shows that Wittgenstein, in discussing ostensive definition, understanding, and the private language argument, attacks Saint Augustine's notion of learning. Recently, the Augustinian conception has been resurrected in cognitive theories postulating an innate language of thought, making Wittgenstein's claims that this conception of learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Learning Processes
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Bedford, David A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
Discusses spontaneous playback, an involuntary, sometimes insistent mental "replay" of the second language being studied. A survey of 160 second-language students determined that playback is not limited to a small number of language-oriented people but is in fact a widespread phenomenon. (SED)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Robinson, Clinton D. W. – Compare, 1999
Reviews the major features of participatory development, asking how far similar processes are applied in promoting the use of local languages. Argues that language development processes must figure into participatory approaches to develop multilingual environments and that attention to language must proceed along similar participatory lines. (CMK)
Descriptors: Empowerment, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Languages
Cox, Gloria; Paris, Scott – 1976
Three research studies were performed to assess patterns of memory organization with respect to complementary and similarity dimensions, referring to associations based on functional relatedness and grammatical relatedness, respectively. The first study failed to replicate the results of a study by Denney and Ziobrowski (1972), indicating that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Kane, Janet H. – 1976
The two studies reported here examined processes involved in learning and remembering sentences. Experiment one identified processes in sentence acquisition, and experiment two analyzed memory for sentences one week after initial learning. Subjects for the experiments were students in a college educational psychology class. The experiments…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
Cook-Gumperz, Jenny; Gumperz, John – 1990
This article describes how, over the past 25 years, sociolinguistics and education have entered into a methodological and intellectual dialogue that has significantly changed both views of language and theories of how language enters into school learning processes. The first section, "Literacy, Language and the Problem of Differential Learning,"…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Kroll, Barbara – 1978
Second language learning research suggests the existence of a theoretical device (a monitor) that can examine an utterance for grammaticality and appropriateness. The monitor theory gives insight into the process that native language speakers follow in learning to write their own language. The monitor can be developed consciously (learning) or…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Halliday, M. A. K. – 1975
This book describes how the child acquires a linguistic system before he is capable of verbal utterances or has developed the ability to structure language in a meaningful way. The first chapter of the book contains a discussion of previous language development studies on learning the mother tongue and proposes a hypothesis of language development…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Usher, Mauricio H. – 1974
A deductive-inductive sequence of writing instruction, in which students are instructed systematically before they begin to write, would help students learn to write well. Educators who propose a trial and error pattern ignore the facts that those learning to write do not have unlimited time in which to learn and are not dealing with an inherent…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Deduction, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 34 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) object conservation and receptive language in day care center infants; (2) the syntactic incorporation of linguistic units; (3) implicit theories of meaning in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Communication Research, Doctoral Dissertations
Emery, Winston G.; Sinatra, Richard – 1983
In advocating written literacy through visual literacy, this paper presents an overview of supporting theory and evidence and demonstrates practical application through visual compositions. The research reported in the first section of the paper includes the general theoretical stance of writing-as-process educators, who believe that the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Stern, H. H. – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1978
The value of language learning theory and research is discussed, and the need for content-related linguistic, sociolinguistic and cultural research, as well as treatment-related research on language teaching and learning, is emphasized. It has been only gradually, from about the mid-sixties and increasingly from the early seventies, that second…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
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