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Peer reviewedKatz, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Download full textHutson, Barbara A. – 1973
Early childhood learning of language has led some to postulate innate knowledge of an abstract symbolic linguistic system. However, if the child's abstract understanding initially requires concrete support in the form of agreement of the message with his nonlinguistic experience, the indication would be that the development of syntactic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Peer reviewedCoker, Pamela L. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In testing kindergartners and first graders in their comprehension of the words "before" and "after," it was found that when temporal terms are acquired, they are first used as prepositions and then as subordinating conjunctions. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedKail, Michele; Segui, Juan – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In this experiment, children were given three words (a triplet made up of two nouns and one verb) and were asked to produce an utterance with them. The results were analyzed in terms of word order chosen and age of child. (NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Holec, H. – 1970
The development of a method for teaching oral comprehension in a second language depends on an understanding of the nature of comprehension and on an analysis of the problems that arise in the learning process. These issues can be approached by a theoretical investigation of comprehension from a psycholinguistic point of view and by the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension
BELASCO, SIMON – 1965
IN THE PRE-NUCLEATION STAGE, THE STUDENT IS CONCERNED WITH STORING, OR INTERNALIZING, THREE KINDS OF LANGUAGE PATTERNS--(1) ONE REPRESENTING THE SOUND STRUCTURE, (2) ANOTHER INVOLVING A PORTION OF THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE, AND (3) A THIRD--CALLED SANDHI VARIATION--ARISING FROM THE ACCIDENTAL CO-OCCURRENCE OF CERTAIN SOUNDS MAKING UP THE ELEMENTS OF…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Comprehension, French
Cooper, Robert L.; And Others – 1978
This investigation examined the acquisition of five complex English syntactic structures by Egyptian and Israeli adult learners at different levels of proficiency. Carol Chomsky's methodology, as adapted by d'Anglejan and Tucker, served to assess comprehension of these structures. The responses of the Egyptians and Israelis, which were similar to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Arabic, Comprehension, Contrastive Linguistics
Rey-von-Allmen, Micheline – 1977
The reflections in this paper represent part of a study of disadvantaged 13 to 15 year-old children of immigrants in Switzerland. This section deals with the process of learning spelling. In order to observe the students' learning, the same dictation was given four times during the school year. The results were studied intuitively and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Comprehension, Disadvantaged Youth, Error Analysis (Language)
