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Peer reviewedSawyer, Diane J. – Language Arts, 1975
To determine student readiness in any academic subject, teachers must determine individual levels of cognitive competencies children possess.
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Individualized Instruction, Language Patterns
Wheeler, Valerie – 1979
Research evidence currently indicates that young children's communication skills for both the speaker and the listener roles are often ineffective. The accuracy of children's communication improves gradually over the elementary school years. Current thinking in the area of metacognition may be very useful in understanding the development of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Comprehension
Peer reviewedHood, Lois; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1979
This study examined the development of causal expressions in children's discourse from two to three years of age. Linguistic, contextual, and pragmatic influences on language development were the major factors considered. (CM)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Context Clues
Sacks, Renee K. – 1978
An exploration of the linguistic patterns and conversational strategies of adult learners was conducted to clarify the relationship between individuals' oral communicative ability and their levels of proficiency in the nonoral literate modes of reading and writing. The connection between social class and language development was also examined.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Download full textBrady, Margaret – 1978
The narrative performances of Navajo children were examined to determine the ways in which the skills of competently structuring a narrative are informally learned within the peer group. Ten- and eleven-year-old Navajo children, living near Window Rock, Arizona, were evaluated in telling stories about the most traditional figures of Navajo belief,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages), Folk Culture
Tollefson, James W. – 1976
Investigators agree that mothers employ a variety of request forms and that children seem to be able to respond to these forms with a remarkable degree of accuracy. It is suggested that the speech of mothers to their children is filled with requests which are really not requests at all. It is shown that many of what appear to be adult requests to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Bock, J. Kathryn; Hornsby, Mary E. – 1977
The ability of children at different ages to distinguish instructions to "ask" from instructions to "tell" and the types of structures used to express these directives were studied. Subjects were 120 children, aged 2 years 6 months to 6 years 6 months. Children were instructed to either ask or tell an adult or another child to give them puzzle…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
