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McFetridge, Patricia A. – Elements: Translating Theory into Practice, 1974
Article considered recent research in language conducted by a teacher educator from St. Lucia, West Indies. Her specific focus was on the methods devised for collection and analysis of language samples. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Language Ability, Language Research, Language Usage
Shipley, Elizabeth F.; And Others – 1967
To determine whether children's language patterns are learned responses or inherently organized, this study observed children's responses to commands. The 13 subjects were middle class children aged 18 to 30 months. The children were rated as verbally mature, intermediate, or immature; and responses were classified as action, verbal, and relevant.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Ability, Language Learning Levels, Language Patterns
Sachs, Jacqueline – 1977
This study describes some aspects of the emergence of displaced reference (talking about topics other than those in the immediate context) in conversations between a child and her parents. The data consisted of tape recorded interaction with the child between 17 and 36 months. During this period, speech about the here and now always dominated, but…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Ability

Landon, Sarah J.; Sommers, Ronald K. – Language and Speech, 1979
When 20 highly talkative and 20 much less talkative preschool children were measured for articulation, grammar, receptive syntax, and sentence repetition, the performances of the highly talkative children were significantly superior on all measures. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Moore, Timothy E., Ed. – 1973
This volume deals with various aspects of the relationship between linguistic ability and general cognitive development. It presents original, up-to-date research for child psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, scholars, teachers, and students interested in this field and interprets the findings in the context of contemporary linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Tovey, Hilary – 1978
This report, based on the materials used by the Committee on Irish Language Attitudes Research, describes the relations between language policy and socioeconomic development in the Republic of Ireland. Their contribution to central state planning in the maintenance and extension of Irish since attainment of political independence in 1922 is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Role, Government Role, Language Ability
Knapp, Margaret O. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between age, ethnic group, socioeconomic status, and sex, and the development of an awareness of the social and racial significance of language dialects. Eighty children from first and fifth grades served as subjects. The subjects were presented with four tasks: (1) a discrimination task of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Ethnic Groups
O'Donnell, Roy C.; And Others – 1967
This investigation sought to learn about the oral and written language behavior of students from kindergarten age through grade 7, and to determine the validity of different analytic techniques for measuring children's development in control of syntax. Language samples were collected from 180 children (grades K-3, 5, and 7) by having the children…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, English, Evaluation Methods
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard – 1975
Metalinguistic knowledge, or linguistic awareness, involves the ability to focus attention upon the form of language in and of itself, rather than merely as the vehicle by which meaning is conveyed. This ability to analyze language structures lags behind spontaneous speaking and listening performance because of the additional cognitive skills…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
McClure, Erica; Steffensen, Margaret S. – 1980
Children's use of conjunctions was examined for linguistic complexity, developmental differences, and ethnic differences. Third, sixth, and ninth grade Anglo-American, Black, and Hispanic students completed sentence fragments ending in "and,""but,""because," and "even though." These conjunctions can be…
Descriptors: Conjunctions, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: children's sociolinguistics skills, ability to sequence verbal expressions, analogical abilities, and learning and application of the principle for nouns; Basil…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language
Newmark, Leonard; Reibel, David A. – IRAL, 1968
The article criticizes present-day overemphasis of contrastive analysis procedures in second language instruction. Recommendations are for language teachers to reappraise their classroom objectives and to give paramount importance to mastery of language use rather than mastery of language structure. Pedagogical procedures based on situational…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Audiolingual Methods, Children, Comparative Analysis
Loban, Walter – 1970
The 13-year study reported in this monograph attempted to accumulate a mass of longitudinal data on every aspect of linguistic behavior in 211 students representing a cross-section of American urban children. Presented as the major objectives of the study, which followed the subjects from kindergarten through grade 12, are 11 hypotheses to be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Growth Patterns, High Achievement
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: oral language characteristics of college freshmen; the language development of a modern day "wild child"; children's understanding of relational terms; the relationship of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
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 23 titles deal with the following topics: sex appropriate and sex inappropriate language; lexical retrieval and perceptual errors; naming deficits in anomia and aphasia; developmental discourse; pragmatic information and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Youth, Child Language
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