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Hutinger, Patricia L. – Day Care and Early Education, 1978
Discusses experiences and activities to encourage language development in children younger than six. (BR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
Day, David E. – Interchange, 1974
This article focuses on three aspects of language instruction in early childhood education: a) educational and sociological events which prompt concern over language behavior, b) results of research of the last 10 years, and c) suggestions for curriculum and instruction. (HMD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Peer reviewedTovey, Duane R. – Language Arts, 1976
Encourages teachers to evaluate the appropriateness of language activities in the light of the language competencies children possess. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Bromwich, Rose M. – Elementary English, 1972
Ideas regarding the language needs of children from poverty areas and how best to meet these needs. (GB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedFranckel, J-J.; Le Rouzo, M-L. – Langue Francaise, 1974
Discusses the relationship between psycholinguistics and the teaching of French and offers suggestions for improving teaching methods. (PM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, French
Peer reviewedHunt, Kellogg – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
This article discusses the now established" fact that one aspect of language development in native English speakers is the increasing ability to embed larger and larger numbers of sentence consituents and considers its implications for second language acquisition. (FB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Universals
Peer reviewedFox, Sharon E. – Reading Teacher, 1976
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedScofield, Sandra J. – Language Arts, 1978
Language delayed children need systematic instruction, experience with a range of language functions, and opportunities for spontaneous speech. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Delayed Speech, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Roy C. – High School Journal, 1973
Knowledge of what constitutes development toward language maturity in school-age children should enable us to make substantial improvements in the language component of the curriculum. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedLayton, Thomas L.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on research into the early semantic-syntactic utterances of deaf children as compared to those of learning children. It is suggested that differences in acquisition patterns may be attributable to the pedagogical nature of deaf language acquisition. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition
Coste, Daniel – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
An attempt at summarizing current trends and ideas in first and second language teaching methodology. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
O'Donnell, Roy C. – Elementary English, 1974
Urges classroom teachers to examine the current language research and dialect discoveries in order to teach effectively.
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHebb, D. O.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Research supported by a grant from the Defense Research Board of Canada. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavioral Objectives, Child Language, Diagrams
Peer reviewedHepworth, Janice C. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Assesses the importance and implications of the 'critical period' in second-language learning, which occurs when second-language learning overlaps primary language learning, ages two to thirteen. (LG)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development, English (Second Language)
PDF pending restorationFollettie, Joseph F. – 1971
The conditions whereby a concept might be learned on the basis of a language mediation process prior to the inductive learning of subordinate concepts are sketched. The view is expressed that grammar treatments which are apt to primary education should be defined on the basis of a pedagogy's needs for linguistic characterizations of concepts to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Grammar, Language Acquisition
