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Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Roy C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Measurement Techniques, Syntax
Peer reviewedFagan, William T. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Investigates the relationships between the occurrence of mazes (garbles, word tangles, or false starts), sentence complexity, and the use of connectives in 20 fifth-grade students. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 5
Peer reviewedMorrow, Lesley Mandel – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Data in this study showed significant linguistic differences between six- and seven-year-olds and a leveling-off between the seven- and eight-year-olds. (DD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1991
Suggests five principles that characterize written language development: the establishment of equivalences; exploration and orchestration of the system; reliance on shifting relationships of form and function; differentiation and integration of symbolic functions; and participation in social dialogue. Discusses implications of this viewpoint for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Literacy, Written Language
Peer reviewedLevy, Beatrice K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Students, Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedKoziol, Stephen M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedLichtman, Marilyn; Rogers, Sarah – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Investigated the relationship between feelings of comfort and maturity of expression revealed by inner-city preschool Black children in three situations: with a familiar teacher, with the mother or principal caretaker in the home, and with a chosen peer. (DD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSmith, Charlotte T. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Concluded that factual questions appear to inhibit the higher cognitive processes of grade 2 and grade 4 subjects, while the interpretive questions stimulate the higher cognitive processes. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Peer reviewedWatson, Rita – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Describes two studies of word meaning acquisition among children. Concludes that (1) even very young children can learn new words and their meanings on basis of linguistic expressions and in absence of direct experience with referents, and (2) that particular forms of discourse (e.g., narrative and dialogue) can render new meanings more accessible…
Descriptors: Child Language, Definitions, Educational Research, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Investigated the written syntactic maturity of students from grade ten through sixth year university. (DD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedHarste, Jerome C.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Challenges existing assumptions about literacy and literacy learning in an effort to both demonstrate and explore the transactive potentials of theory and methodology in the study of literacy. (HOD)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Ethnography, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedStrickland, Dorothy S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Dialects, Black Youth, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Examines kindergarten children's use of talk during writing to draw inferences regarding how children use speech to make sense of written language. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Oral Language
Peer reviewedBrause, Rita S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Investigates the ability of adults and children to understand aspects of semantic ambiguity. (DD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFeitelson, Dina; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Investigates the effects of reading a series-format, many-volumed story to disadvantaged first graders. Results indicate that children who had been read to outscored children in the control classes on measures of decoding, reading comprehension, and active use of language. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Language, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
