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Lin-shuang, Yao; Zi-jiang, Que – Online Submission, 2007
This paper explored the adult student opinions on four types of English classroom activities (language learning; language acquisition; information convey; role play) and the relationship between the fondness degrees and their personality, test performance and motivation. It turned out that the majority of students ranked all classroom activities a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Adult Students
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Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – Language Arts, 1983
Examines materials in the ERIC system related to children's early oral language and the transition from home language to the more formal language used in school. Offers activities for a classroom climate that is responsive to children's oral language development needs. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, English Instruction
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Jolly, Thomas – Language Arts, 1980
Describes ERIC resources that present research on children's language usage and development and that suggest activities for the promotion of language development. (ET)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Perron, Jack – 1975
The first section of this paper discusses recent writing research and the basic elements of language development. The second section describes a program which used a sentence-combining method as an activity-based experience for language development. A six-month study involved all fourth graders at Powell School in Mountain View, California. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Experimental Teaching, Language Acquisition
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Yawkey, Thomas Daniels – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reviews four current approaches to play behavior of young children and concludes that using forms of play such as puppets and body action movements to rehearse story content is effective in aiding aural language comprehension and recall in young children. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Research
Cooper, Pamela; Stewart, Lea – 1982
To provide classroom teachers with an understanding of some of the properties of language and of their effects on classroom interaction, this booklet reviews research in the area and offers teaching suggestions based upon that research. The first section of the booklet presents an overview of the American idea of language "correctness" and its…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Thaiss, Christopher – 1986
The language across the curriculum approach explored in this book implies the restructuring of curricula away from so-called "coverage" of content and toward creation of opportunities for learning in discussions, games, and in-class writing projects. Following an introduction and overview in chapter one, chapter two summarizes and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
Genishi, Celia; Dyson, Anne Haas – 1984
Encouraging the appreciation and assessment of children's language and communication, from birth to the age of eight, is the focus of this volume. Following an introduction, chapter 2 elaborates on the interactionist framework, citing recent studies related to the acquisition of oral language and literacy, while the next two chapters describe…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment, Interaction
Cowe, Eileen Grace – 1967
A study of two public school kindergarten classes in New York City, heterogeneously grouped according to ethnic origin and social background, revealed that the maturity and fluency of the children's language varied according to the type of classroom activity in which they were engaged. From observational recordings of teacher-class interaction, it…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Instruction, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Redard, Francoise – 1976
This is a report of a study conducted by a group of teachers to discover the extent to which students in the first three years of school were aware of the phonetic system of their native language (French) with emphasis on the means they used to analyze it. In the first year, the children discovered phonetic oppositions by touching their lips and…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
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Page, William D.; Pinnell, Gay Su – 1979
Based on the premise that comprehension must be the true and final goal of all instruction in reading, this book is designed to provoke teachers' reflections about their own ideas, reading, language, and experiences as teachers of reading comprehension and to help them base their teaching decisions on a knowledge of theory and research about how…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Language Acquisition