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Hynes, Geraldine E. – Speech Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedBank, Stanley – English Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Educational Games, English Instruction, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment
Download full textRoulet, Eddy – Bulletin CILA, 1976
In addition to the communicative end served by language learning, there is another objective: the discovery, by the student, of the system and the workings of his native language. The values of this objective include: (1) formative value: the possibility of achieving a better understanding of the fundamental and uniquely human phenomenon which is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education
Schwartz, Judy I. – 1979
This paper discusses kinds and characteristics of language play, explores the relationship of such play to wider domains of language and play, and speculates on the possible contributions of language play for language mastery and cognitive development. Jump rope chants and ritual insults ("Off my case, potato face") and other expressive…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Essays, Expressive Language
MARTIN, BILL, JR. – 1967
THE AUTHOR CHARACTERIZES THIS BULLETIN AS A MESSAGE ON LANGUAGE. THE MESSAGE IS FACILITATED BY (1) A FLUID AND IMAGINATIVE USE OF TYPESETTING, (2) A NARRATIVE-FORM STORY, AND (3) A STORY-PLOT THAT INVOLVES SEVERAL LANGUAGE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. ALTHOUGH THE STORY COMPRISES THE ENTIRE BULLETIN, THE PURPOSE OF THE BULLETIN IS NOT JUST TO TELL A…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education
Goodman, Kenneth S. – Elem Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Awareness, Dialects
Peer reviewedPolyzoi, Eleoussa – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Assessed language quality of 15 four-year olds with three conversational partners: a center-care teacher, an older child, and a younger child. Data coded included number of turns, utterances, gaps, statements versus questions, contingent responses, and amount of self-talk. Found that children take more turns with an adult but produce fewer…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Day Care Centers, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
Kwiatkowski, Eugenia Evelyn – 1969
Foreign influences in the Russian language leading to linguistic change through loanword borrowing, loan translation, and loan shifts are explored in this article. Related concepts of the processes described are often accompanied by comparative word lists. Comment on the evolution of the Russian language begins with the Proto-Slavic period and is…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Descriptive Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Language Acquisition
