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Knowledge and School Talk: Intellectual Accommodations to Literacy?
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Freebody, Peter – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2013
This paper introduces the goals of the research project on which this special issue of "Linguistics and Education" is based. A case is made for considering contemporary education as saturated by and dependent on oral and written language, and on beliefs and practices that relate knowledge, talk, reading and writing. The project is directed at a…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Written Language, Interaction, Educational Change
The Recall of Sentences of Varying Length
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Wearing, Alexander J. – Australian Journal of Psychology, 1973
Results indicate that increasing sentence length decreased recall and that objects were recalled more easily than verbs. (RB)
Descriptors: College Students, Language Research, Learning Processes, Recall (Psychology)
Identifying and Using Referents in Sentence Comprehension
Yekovich, Frank R.; Walker, Carol H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Two experiments examined characteristics of text that determine when a repeated noun has a clearly identified referent. Verbs and article modifiers appeared to influence whether a noun is merely a repeated word in a text, or whether it is redundant at the propositional level. (SW)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes, Nouns
Reading, Language, and Learning.
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Radwin, Eugene, Ed.; Wolf-Ward, Maryanne, Ed. – Harvard Educational Review, 1977
This special issue focuses on the nature of the reading process, the nature of language, and the nature of the relationships between them. Specific topics discussed include the bias of language in speech and writing, the functions of language, trends in second-language-acquisition research, learning about psycholinguistic processes by analyzing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
ORAL OR WRITTEN LANGUAGE--THE CONSEQUENCES FOR COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES.
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GREENFIELD, PATRICIA M. – 1968
SPEAKING AN ORAL LANGUAGE AND SPEAKING A WRITTEN LANGUAGE INVOLVE DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE USE WHICH ARE IN TURN RELATED TO DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL METHODS AND DIFFERENT COURSES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. BECAUSE ORAL SPEECH RELIES ON CONTEXT FOR COMMUNICATION, A COMMON CONTEXT AND POINT OF VIEW IS ASSUMED BY THE SPEAKER TO EXIST BETWEEN THE…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Acquisition des competences discursives dans un contexte plurilingue (Acquisition of Discourse Competencies in a Multilingual Context).
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Berthoud, Anne-Claude, Ed. – Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquee, 1996
This collection of articles on second language learning in a multilingual environment includes: "Franzosisch-Deutsch: Zweisprachiges Lernen au der Sekundarstufe 1" (French-German: Learning Two Languages at Secondary School, Level 1) (Otto Stern, Brigit Eriksson, Christine Le Pape, Hans Reutener, Cecilia Serra Oesch); "Das Projekt…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education, Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries
Pragmatics and Language Learning, Volume 3.
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Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits