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Preschoolers Use Information about Speakers' Desires to Learn New Words
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Saylor, Megan M.; Troseth, Georgene L. – Cognitive Development, 2006
This research investigates preschoolers' use of desires for word learning. Three-year-old children were shown pairs of novel toys and were asked about their own desire and told about a researcher's desire. For half of the children the researcher liked the same object they did and for the other half the researcher liked a different object. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Toys, Vocabulary Development, Student Interests
Evidence for an Interactionist-Discovery Theory of Child Phonology. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 12.
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Menn, Lise – 1976
An interactionist-discovery theory of child phonology is proposed based on the following tenets: children invent their own phonological rules, and phonetic mastery is not automatically or generally in step with learning about phonemic contrasts. When a child learns the sound pattern of a language, there is constant interaction between the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Discovery Processes, Generalization
A New Perspective on the Creative Construction Process in Child Second Language Acquisition. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 4.
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Dulay, Heidi; Burt, Marina – 1974
Previous work by the authors permitted them to hypothesize the existence of certain universal cognitive strategies that play a significant role in child second language acquisition. Forming the basis of the "creative construction process" in L2 learning, these strategies have heretofore remained unspecified. This paper offers new…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Discovery Processes, Error Patterns
La prise de conscience du systeme phonologique par de juenes enfants francophones en milieu scolaire (The Awareness of the Phonological System among Young French-Speaking Children in a School Environment). Acts of the Colloquium of the Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics. CILA Bulletin, No. 26.
Redard, Francoise – 1976
This is a report of a study conducted by a group of teachers to discover the extent to which students in the first three years of school were aware of the phonetic system of their native language (French) with emphasis on the means they used to analyze it. In the first year, the children discovered phonetic oppositions by touching their lips and…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Lexique et procedures heuristiques. Arguments pour un renouvellement de l'enseignement du vocabulaire au degre elementaire (Word-Study and Heuristic Processes. Arguments for a Renewal in the Teaching of Vocabulary at the Elementary Level). Acts of the Colloquium of the Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics. CILA Bulletin, No. 28.
Muller, Charles – 1978
A study is described of heuristic devices useful in learning both native and second languages. The study concerns particularly the means used by very young students (second and third graders) in vocabulary acquisition and in the establishment of semantic relationships. It was of concern to verify if (1) the children would use their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
The Meaning Makers: Children Learning Language and Using Language to Learn. First Edition.
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment