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Houlette, Forrest; Ramsey, Paige A. – 1979
The Cooperative Principle posits four general ways in which a speaker is expected to be cooperative: (1) quantity--make a contribution no more and no less informative than is required; (2) quality--say only that which one both believes and has adequate evidence for; (3) relation--be relevant; and (4) manner--make a contribution easy to understand.…
Descriptors: Information Processing, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Raver, Sharon A. – 1988
Children with language delays often manifest low rates of self-initiated expressive language, particularly in school settings. Children with mild to moderate language delays appear to develop this pattern as a means of coping with situations in which they believe they are unable to perform or may perform poorly. Interactive language training…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Feedback, Interpersonal Communication, Language Handicaps
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Stokes, P. M. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
Regular debating can be an effective way of improving the performance of ESL pupils and of assessing their language-learning propensities. It requires a lot of listening as well as speaking and generally seems to foster confidence in language use. The relationships set up in debating are pupil-pupil rather than pupil-teacher. (CFM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Debate, English (Second Language)
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Linn, Michael D. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
An approach to written composition built upon knowledge of the linguistic environments of inner-city blacks is described.
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Games, Group Activities
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Langston, William – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Argues that psycholinguistics relies on a number of methodologies that bear little relation to actual language comprehension. Maintains that computer software illustrating classic experiments in psycholinguistics can introduce students to these techniques. The software examines experiments concerning reaction time, reading time, and recognition.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Langley, M. Beth – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1978
Focus is on an assessment model that integrates process-oriented and eclectic approaches to cognitive, linguistic, motoric, and social assessment of this population. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes
Reusser, Kurt – 1986
This paper reports research into the linguistic and extra-linguistic or social-cognitive structure of problem presentation contexts. The effects of textual and social syntax were investigated, including the specific structure of the problem text by which situations, processes, actions, and number relations are implicitly or explicitly expressed,…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Critical Reading, Deduction, Educational Sociology