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Peer reviewedFrasure, Nancy E.; Entwisle, Doris R. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Lower Class
Peer reviewedBruck, Margaret; Tucker, G. Richard – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1974
A total of 40 lower- and middle-class kindergarten children were given a number of different tasks in order to measure the child's understanding and usage of grammatical rules of English and his ability to use language for effective communication. (ED)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Kindergarten Children, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
Download full textAmmon, Paul R. – 1973
This study was designed to investigate the assumption that young, lower-class black children have language deficits based on the use of a restricted (as opposed to an elaborated) syntactic code. The speech of 69 black, lower-class and 30 white, middle-class 4 1/2-year olds was compared. Speech samples were elicited through semistructured picture…
Descriptors: Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Christensen, Katharine Eleanor Meyer – 1971
This study was conducted to assess the effects of two kindergarten programs--AK and NK (a regular curriculum with and without an adaptation from the language-experience approach to reading), social class, and sex upon children's oral syntactic language facility after a five-month period. Eighty subjects were distributed among eight classrooms and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Females, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
RYCKMAN, DAVID B. – 1967
A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO EXAMINE THE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL CLASS AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF NEGRO KINDERGARTEN BOYS. FIFTY MIDDLE CLASS AND 50 LOWER CLASS NEGRO KINDERGARTEN BOYS WERE INDIVIDUALLY ADMINISTERED EXTENSIVE TESTS DESIGNED TO ASSESS SPECIFIC INFORMATION PROCESSING ABILITIES. THE EIGHT INSTRUMENTS USED INCLUDED…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged, Information Processing, Kindergarten Children
Robinson, W. P.; Arnold, Jenifer – 1972
The quality of mother-child linguistic interaction was studied in 40 6-year-old English children and their mothers. Both the middle and working classes were represented in the sample. Tasks were administered in which children were to ask questions of their mothers. Questions were analyzed in terms of open versus closed. The majority of the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Lower Class, Middle Class
Potts, Marion
The technique to be described here was developed to meet the need for a language production measure. It samples a variety of morphemic and syntactic patterns, and avoids the problems of imitation and of free speech analysis. The production test is administered in a sentence-completion format. A very brief incomplete story is told by the examiner…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lower Class, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedGranger, Robert C. – Young Children, 1976
Many early childhood programs have as a goal the development of standard English speech for non-standard English speaking children. This paper analyzes the assumptions underlying this goal and finds such assumptions lacking in empirical support. (Author/HS)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Early Childhood Education, English Instruction, Language Acquisition
PDF pending restorationTulkin, Steven R. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to investigate class differences in the responses of infants to tape recordings of mothers' and strangers' voices. Subjects were 10-month-old first-born Caucasian girls, 30 from middle class families and 30 from working class families. Stimuli presented through a speaker placed in front of the infant consisted of…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Eye Movements, Females
PDF pending restorationGraves, Zoe R. – 1980
Twenty dyads--ten middle-class mothers and ten lower-class mothers and their two-year-old children--were videotaped in a play situation. Variables in speech and utterance production were examined for change across condition (awareness or ignorance of being observed) and across socioeconomic class within condition. The number of utterances was…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Language, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition
Schachter, Frances; And Others – 1970
This paper reports findings of a main study and a corollary study designed to clarify the relationship between interpersonal and intrapersonal language by examining the spontaneous classroom interpersonal verbal output of children 4-5 years old in relation to social class and intelligence. The report presents (1) preparation of the data of the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Classroom Observation Techniques, Expressive Language, Factor Analysis
Guidubaldi, John; And Others – 1974
The present study involved the evaluation of the effectiveness of four types of preschool programs on the educational development of lower and middle class children. Middle class children were exposed to "unit" and "cognitive" based preschool programs; lower class children were exposed to "day care" and Montessori…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Educational Experience
