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"Ganchulinas" and "Rainbowli" Colors: Young Multilingual Children Play with Language in Head Start Classroom
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Axelrod, Ysaaca – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to study the language development of 4-year-old emergent bilinguals in a bilingual (Spanish/English) Head Start classroom with flexible language practices. Data were collected throughout the 10-month school year by visiting the classroom 2-3 times per week. Data include: field notes (observations and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Child Language, Emergent Literacy
Children's Comprehension of Relativized English Sentences
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Brown, H, Douglas – Child Development, 1971
Results imply that in early childhood education the language of test instructions and reading programs could be better geared to the child's linguistic competence. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Data Analysis, Language Acquisition
Maturation and Learnability in Parametric Systems.
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Bertolo, Stefano – Language Acquisition, 1995
Presents a framework for studying the effects of the Maturation Hypothesis on the problem of language learning, parametrically conceived, and offers a method for finding all existing maturational solutions for any parametric hypothesis space and any learning algorithm that differs from Gibson and Wexler's Triggering Learning Algorithm. (27…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis
Observational and Checklist Measures of Vocabulary Composition: What Do They Mean?
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And Others; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigates the relationship between observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition in preschool children. Results indicate that while the two measures are correlated, there are systematic quantitative differences between them, reflecting a combination of checklist, maternal-report and observational sampling biases. (22…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Language, Correlation, Data Analysis
Cultural and Situational Variation in Language Function and Use: Methods and Procedures for Research. Technical Report No. 148.
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Hall, William S.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1979
A research project combining ethnographic and experimental methods is currently underway to assess whether minority groups use language in ways that put their children at a disadvantage in school. The project, which focuses on social, cognitive, and educational consequences of different patterns of language function and use, has involved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Youth, Child Language, Cultural Differences
Phonological and Lexical Development in Normal and Late-Talking Toddlers.
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Thal, Donna J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Toddlers in the lowest 10th percentile for lexical production were compared with age- and language-matched controls on measures of phonetic complexity, lexical development, and grammatical complexity. Results indicate an overlap between phonology, lexicon, and grammar and suggest the importance of true consonant production for lexical development.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Control Groups, Data Analysis
Cognitive Aspects of Young Children's Symbolic Play. Final Report.
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Stern, Virginia; And Others – 1976
The purpose of this study was to develop a method for assessing aspects of the cognitive functioning of young children from their symbolic play. Subjects were 60 children, aged 3 to 5 years, from middle-class and lower-class families. The study was conducted in two phases, with the following objectives: (1) to identify and analyze aspects of…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Classroom Observation Techniques