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Language and Learning Styles of the "Educationally Disadvantaged."

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Gantt, Walter N. – Elementary School Journal, 1972

Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Individual Needs, Individualized Instruction, Interests

Cognitive Basis of Language Learning in Infants

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Macnamara, John – Psychological Review, 1972

Presents evidence to support theory that infants learn their language by first determining, independent of language, the meaning which a speaker intends to convey... and by then working out the relationship between the meaning and the expression they heard. (Author)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Skills

Meaningfulness and the Recall of Textual Prose

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Johnson, Ronald E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1973

Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Psychology, Language Proficiency, Language Skills

Programmed Instruction Versus Guided Learning in Foreign Language Acquisition.

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Valdman, Albert – Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1968

Criticism against the application of Skinnerian programed instruction techniques to foreign language learning is advanced, while the development of a largely self-instructional guided learning program with live teachers and other students is advocated. Major attention is directed to an explanation of the principles of programed instruction, the…

Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Skills, Learning Theories, Linguistics

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