This study was concerned with the effects of specified dimensions of teacher behavior on the language development of socially disadvantaged preschool children enrolled in Head Start. The hupothesis, later verified by the findings, was that teachers showing high levels of competence in eliciting verbal behavior from their pupils and rewarding them…

The present study affords an explanation for the consistent, but not always statistically significant, pattern showing superior verbal discrimination learning performance for low- as compared to high-frequency words. In a frequency judgment task it was found that relative to high-frequency words, low-frequency words for which subjects (sixth…

This study incorporated a correlational methodology into an experimental context to determine the functional components of rehearsal strategies in children's discrimination learning. The subjects for this study were 120 fifth- and sixth-grade children attending two elementary schools located in middle-class areas of Ogden, Utah. According to the…

Describes 180 works dealing with bilingualism and bidialectalism; language and verbal learning; literature, humanities and media; teacher education; testing and evaluation; and written and oral communication. (DD)

Describes recent studies dealing with bilingualism and bidialectalism, testing and evaluation, literature and media study, English teacher education, language and verbal learning, and written and oral communication. (HOD)