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Cummins, James – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1978
This paper suggests that bilingualism can increase the child's metalinguistic awareness and promote an analytic orientation to linguistic input. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Lewandowski, Rosemarie – 1995
A study examined the idea that linguistic competence and linguistic performance may be initially dependent on a substrate of imagery. The study explored the ways in which four student interviewees' talk indicated the visual processes of thinking. The prompt used was: describe some aspect of daily life at the age of 9 or 10. The study reviewed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Background, Discourse Analysis, Eidetic Imagery
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Cazden, 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
Baum, Richard – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1980
Discusses basic language functions emphasizing the importance of spoken language and decrying the fact that linguistics, on the conceptual level, is still chiefly concerned with written language. Stresses the complexity of language and the importance of the situational context, particularly with regard to the semiotics of the media. (MES)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Context Clues, French, Language Research
Rosen, Harold – Notes From Workshop Center for Open Education, 1974
An examination of current educational theory regarding the functions of language, exploring the relationship of language and thought, various views of linguistic poverty, and language use and instruction in the school. (EH)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Instruction
Toronto, Allen S.; Toronto, Jane – 1975
The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic differences in the spontaneous speech of language-deviant children in two very different situations. Spontaneous speech samples of eleven five-year-old language-deviant children were obtained from: (1) the traditional adult-child therapy situation using appropriate stimulus materials; and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Hymes, Dell H. – 1968
This report describes the steps by which ethnographic literature was explored for cross-cultural differences in the role of language with particular reference to its acquisition and use by children. The exploration is put in the context of ongoing work in the development of a systematic guide to field studies of this sort. A principal effort of…
Descriptors: African Culture, Anthropology, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
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Weller, Georganne – 1978
This study of a group of American teenagers living in Mexico uses a series of questionnaires to measure their degree of bilingualism (in English and Spanish) and biculturalism (in American and Mexican culture). The main hypotheses of this investigation were: (1) after five or more years in Mexico, the teenage subjects will be at least functionally…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Dialects
Ives, Sumner – 1969
In language instruction, a dependable informational base of fact, experience, or judgment is essential if students are to develop a functional literacy. Yet the language information base in use today--the set of concepts about what language is, how it works, and how individual languages are maintained--has proven inadequate and unreliable. Reform,…
Descriptors: College Role, Culture Lag, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Siegel, Florence – 1973
An exploration of issues in language diversity addressing the nature of dialect, features of the dialect, features of black English Vernacular (BEV), linguistic phenomena in the black urban community, theories of the origins of BEV, and its social, economic, and political ramifications suggest that BEV, like other dialects, meets the needs of its…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Viera, Silvia – 1976
This paper discusses the conflict occurring as a result of two languages and their corresponding cultural bases coming into contact in North America, particularly in the context of bilingual education. Difficulty exists in translating awareness of problems such as language interference, cultural shock, and lowered self-image into attitudinal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes