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Peer reviewedCazden, Courtney B. – Urban Review, 1976
Notes that it is not surprising to find a time lag between the development of a field, in this case socio-linguistics, and the application of its concepts and methodologies to a specific setting, the classroom. (Author)
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Styles, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedCofer, Thomas M. – Linguistics, 1975
A data-based study done in Philadelphia examined the constraints on relative pronoun deletion and looked for a possible correlation to social stratification or stylistic variation. Restrictive relative clauses only are examined. Constraints appear to be due to performance factors related to sentence processing. (SCC)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Styles, Language Usage, Language Variation
Download full textRodman, Robert – 1975
Right dislocations are expressions of the following form: (1) "They told the Grand Jury a number of lies, the Nixon men." (2) "We find we have to limit our social schedule, my husband and I." (3) "Mary always wears a frown, the ugly witch." They are found also almost exclusively in the spoken language. This paper…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Moscovici, Serge; Humbert, Claudine – 1968
The oral and written language of 10 students expressing themselves on the same subject was observed to determine (1) whether an "oral style" could be identified and (2) what relationship existed between cognitive processes and methods of expression. Six girls and four boys were placed in two situations: an "oral" situation in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar
Peer reviewedKrashen, Stephen; Scarcella, Robin – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the role of "routines" and grammatical patterns in first and second language acquisition by children and adults, specifically with regard to syntactic structures. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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
Rodriguez-Brown, Flora V.; Elias-Olivares, Lucia – 1981
This paper examines: (1) the use of questions by children at different levels of proficiency in Spanish and English, and (2) the congruency between the language constructs used to measure language proficiency and the natural language repertoire of children as seen in video-tapes of classroom interaction. A quantitative analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
