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Download full textJohnson, Ronald E. – 1970
A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction
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
