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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
Download full textBerdan, Robert – 1972
A structured elicitation technique, convergent communication, was investigated as a means of constraining the range of linguistic data from children in K-3 without unduly constraining the naturalness of the conversation context. The convergent communication situation is a two-person problem-solving task which ensures that all communication is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Data Collection, Dialect Studies, Language Research
Higginbotham, Dorothy C. – 1971
This paper discusses some of the educational potential of psycholinguistic research. The first area discussed is the educational implications of the human capacity for acquiring language. Studies cited cover topics related to the universality of language acquisition, children's mastery of basic grammatical devices, neurophysiological states of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialect Studies, Educational Research, Language Acquisition
Stout, Steven Owen – 1977
The paper examines interpretive aspects of English non-uniformity among fifth and sixth grade Native Americans at Laguna Elementary School, Laguna, New Mexico. Speaker assessments of instances of uninflected "be" are ordered to form an implicational scale. The variability in the students' assessment pattern is compared to previous inter-ethnic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialect Studies
Moisset, Christine, Ed.; Lipson, Mimi, Ed. – 1999
This issue includes the following articles: "Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation" (Julie Auger, Jeffrey Steele); "Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation" (Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet); "Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Ethnic Groups
Natalicio, Diana S.; Williams, Frederick – 1972
This paper reports the attempt to see which characteristics of the speech of Black and Mexican American children would be reliably evaluated by experts specializing in dialect study. Presumably, if selected characteristics were evaluated with consistency and bases for these evaluations were given, such results could serve in training teachers to…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Language, Children, Dialect Studies
Freedle, Roy O., Ed. – 1977
An understanding of the structure and function of discourse in social communication and in its internal representation to the individuals is sought in this multidisciplinary collection of papers. The approaches are divided into theoretical orientations and empirical orientations. The theoretical papers deal with: (1) comprehension in conversation,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 dissertations abstracted deal with the following topics: (1) the intercultural composition classroom, (2) cross-cultural communication curriculum, (3) miscue analysis with bilingual children, (4) communication difficulties of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1971
This volume contains an edited version of the papers presented at a 1969 conference called by the Center for Applied Linguistics in an effort to provide information to researchers, teachers, and administrators from various fields who have seen social dialects as contributing to the complexity of their disciplines. Ten scholars represented the…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Black Dialects, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Day, Richard; And Others – 1977
This research report deals with the transformations of stimulus sentences that primary grade speakers of Hawaii Creole English (HCE) made when they were asked to repeat sentences said to them in Standard English. The test used was the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) Standard English Repetition Test (SERT) which was administered to the 21…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Deep Structure, Dialect Studies
Gallimore, Ronald; Tharp, Roland G. – 1976
This report presents a summary of the linguistic research conducted at the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) during its first five years of operation, as well as a description of relevant linguistic theories. The subjects of the research are the students in the KEEP elementary school (K-3) who were tested twice a year during the five-year…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Creoles, Cultural Influences
