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Direct linkPavelko, Stacey L.; Owens, Robert E., Jr. – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Purpose: The purposes of this tutorial are (a) to describe a method of language sample analysis (LSA) referred to as SUGAR (Sampling Utterances and Grammatical Analysis Revised) and (b) to offer step-by-step instructions detailing how to collect, transcribe, analyze, and interpret the results of a SUGAR language sample. Method: The tutorial begins…
Descriptors: Sampling, Language Tests, Data Collection, Data Analysis
White, E. Jayne; Redder, Bridgette – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2019
Our study highlights how careful attention to, reflection on, and critical engagement with the dialogues of 2-year-olds in preschool 'mixed-age' settings can help teachers work more effectively with these learners. The teachers in our study carried out in-depth coding of, and reflection on, comprehensive video footage of dialogues involving…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Age Differences
Rhode, Mary – 1975
The sources used, the procedures followed, and the results obtained in updating the kindergarten through grade six communication skills lexicon are covered in this report. The final list of 322 new terms included in the lexicon are appended. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Dictionaries, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationRhode, Mary – 1977
The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) communication skills lexicon, compiled for use in the development of elementary instruction, is a set of words used by children between kindergarten and sixth grade. Although the lexicon was originally derived from the most comprehensive and up-to-date sources available, the major studies on which the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedPepperberg, Irene M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
An African gray parrot, taught to employ the vocalization "want" before an object label so as to discriminate functional labeling from requesting, subsequently generalized "want" to novel situations. The findings of the study indicate that the training procedure might be applicable to intervention programs for humans with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Correlation
Clark, Eve V. – 2003
This book examines children's acquisition of a first language, the stages they go through, and how they use language as they learn. There are 16 chapters in 4 parts. After chapter 1, "Acquiring Languages: Issues and Questions," Part 1, "Getting Started," offers (2) "In Conversation with Children," (3) "Starting…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Child Development, Child Language
Hopper, Robert W. – Speech Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Grammar
Robeck, Mildred C. – J Res Develop Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Communication Skills, Creative Expression
Peer reviewedDeStefano, Johanna S. – Language Arts, 1980
Outlines some of the problems children encounter while developing communicative competency. Discusses ways to assess an individual child's communicative abilities and the ways that language development research can help teachers enhance those abilities. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Early Childhood Education
Strage, Amy A. – 1982
Developmental changes in the expression of contrast in child discourse were investigated. Contrast is defined as a psychological phenomenon and applied to the domain of discourse topics. The development of the ability to produce utterances that are topically related to the previous conversational turn is considered. Four types and three levels of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Coherence, Communication Skills, Connected Discourse
Download full textGehlbach, Roger – 1975
This was an attempt to conduct a micro-investigation of teachers' verbal instruction. It was based on the assumption that there must be, within broad categories such as "explaining," both better and worse ways of using language to represent reality and/or to direct student behaviors. The subjects in the study were 20 experienced kindergarten…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communication Skills, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedRodgon, Maris Monitz; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1977
Language is conceptualized as a multi-dimensional entity involving symbolic and cognitive aspects, communicative aspects, and structural-linguistic aspects. Analysis of single-word production of three children revealed developmental changes in the salience of these aspects and differences in functional styles of language acquisition. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Pickert, Sarah M.; Sgan, Mabel L. – 1977
Categories such as commanding, requesting, and explaining were used to analyze communicative intentions in conversations of 108 children, aged five through nine, during three sets of play activities varying in task specification and leadership role assignment. Results showed that the frequency and variety of communicative intention categories…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Children, Communication Skills
Rhode, Mary – 1972
The Model 3 communication skills lexicon consists of three lists of words developed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) for use in communication skills instruction in K-6. This report documents the procedures followed in the specification and generation of the second component of the Model 3 communication skills lexicon, the general…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Content Analysis, Dictionaries
Terry, Pamela – 1972
The Model communication skills lexicon, developed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) for use in communication skills instruction in kindergarten through sixth grade, consists of three word lists--an entry list, a general list, and a technical list. The Model 3 entry lexicon (Rhode, 1972)--based on a predominately white sample--was…
Descriptors: Black Students, Child Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
