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Cummins, Jim – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Addresses recent advances in research and theory that relate to language shift in early childhood, cognitive, and academic consequences of bilingualism and second-language learning, and theoretical models for conceptualizing the development of bilingualism and second-language learning. Contains annotated bibliography. (47 references) (LET)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
Kelly, Robert – 1991
Second language acquisition (SLA) research is examined in terms of what might be used in the planning, design, and implementation of language courses. A conception of language and the communicative use of language that is appropriate for formal language teaching and learning is discussed, and different conditions are described under which second…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Marshall, James D.; Durst, Russel K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Presents an annotated bibliography of research materials of special interest to English teachers. Material is divided into four main sections: writing, language, literature, and teacher education. (AEW)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Christie, Frances – 1979
The national Language Development Project in Australia, an undertaking concerned with informing teachers on matters to do with language, language development, and language and learning, is described in this report. The various sections of the report establish the project's purposes; offer discussions of developments in thinking and research of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Gowie, Cheryl J. – 1977
This study examined the effects of children's cognitively based role expectations on their judgments of the grammatical acceptability of sentences. Sixty children, 12 each in grades 4 through 8, individually heard 10 sentences violating the Minimum Distance Principle (MDP). The sentences were grammatical, but linguistically complex, and violated…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Grammar
Izzo, Suzanne – 1981
The fact that some people learn a second language more easily than others has prompted numerous studies designed to link one factor or another with successful language learning. This work examines a large number of these studies to assess the importance of various factors involved in language learning. The influencing factors suggested are grouped…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Silberstein, Lisa R.; And Others – 1980
A multiple choice Metaphor Preferences Test was administered to 138 preschool through college subjects to determine the role of a metaphor's ground in determining a metaphor's appeal, and to document the evolution of preferences for different types of grounds. Ground is the common property that links the two terms of a metaphor (topic and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education

Durst, Russel K.; Marshall, James D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
Contains annotations describing research conducted in the following areas: writing (contexts, status surveys, instruction, processes, text analysis, assessment, rhetoric, writing and learning), language (processing, development, interrelationships, language and schooling), literature, and teacher education. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English Teacher Education
Doughty, Catherine J., Ed.; Long, Michael H., Ed. – 2003
This handbook provides an integrated discussion of key issues in second language acquisition (SLA). The 24 chapters include the following: (1) "The Scope of Inquiry and the Goals of SLA" (Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long); (2) "On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar
Ice, Marie – 1986
To determine the relationship between oral and written language conventions at the macro and micro levels, a study analyzed various elements of stories generated by children. Subjects, nine above average readers between grades 4 and 9, were asked to tell a story and then to write a story. Sources of stories, overall plot organization, and number…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Steffensen, Margaret S.; And Others – 1981
A study investigated one aspect of the speech/reading comprehension relationship--that between the ability to select the correct standard English verbal endings (-s and -ed) and the ability to recognize the tense of a passage when time information was encoded primarily in the verbs and adverbs. Subjects were 135 third, sixth, and ninth grade…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Black Dialects, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with the following topics: the role of crib talk in language acquisition; syntactic parsing strategies; a case study of the first use of words; how two modes of literature presentation affect oral language…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Child Language, Communication Skills
Stansell, John C.; Moss, R. Kay – 1983
Language is a complex social event. The rules determining its use vary with (1) the language field--the subject, text, and purpose; (2) the tenor of the social interaction; and (3) the mode or type of communication being used. The impact of the field, tenor, and mode on language use is reflected in a college student's retelling of a story to a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1985
One of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications, this report covers the period January 1 to March 31, 1985. Studies summarized in the report cover such topics as (1) segmentation of coarticulated speech in perception (2) intrinsic time in…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Adults, Articulation (Speech), Cognitive Processes
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) comparison of achievement test scores between bilingually and nonbilingually instructed Cherokee Indians; (2) issues related to the social phenomenon of black…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students