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The Role of Phonological Recoding in Orthographic Learning
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Kyte, Christiane S.; Johnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The objective of this research was to explore whether orthographic learning occurs as a result of phonological recoding, as expected from the self-teaching hypothesis. The participants were 32 fourth- and fifth-graders (mean age = 10 years 0 months, SD = 7 months) who performed lexical decisions for monosyllabic real words and pseudowords under…
Descriptors: Phonology, Grade 4, Grade 5, Word Recognition
A Course in Thinking for Interdisciplinary Faculty Groups.
Lauer, Rachel M. – 1986
This article reflects one session of a course in thinking and communicating for Pace University (New York) faculty. The purpose of the course was to heighten awareness that language can seriously misrepresent events which it describes, thus affecting students' ability to perceive, evaluate, and make day-to-day decisions. Beginning with a concrete…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Language-Motor Skill Acquisition and Shorthand Theory Presentation.
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Clippinger, Dorinda A. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1979
Focusing on the ST-ART shorthand theory presentation method, this article discusses the following principles of language-motor skill acquisition: mental practice, symbol-sound association, verbal mediation, recitation and articulation, hierarchy of habits, overlearning, learner anxiety, sense modality, guided practice, kinesthetic imagery, visual…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Processing, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
Visual Communication as a Primary System.
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Moriarty, Sandra – Journal of Visual Literacy, 1994
Discusses several philosophies of linguistics and semiotics that debate the importance of words and their relationship to signs, language as the primary modeling system, and the historical primacy of verbal versus visual communication. Describes human communication as both language-based and nonverbal, both aspects inviting arbitrary and abstract…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Interpretive Skills, Language Processing
Children's Language: Learning Words from Experience.
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Genishi, Celia – Young Children, 1988
Reviews the literature which presents theory and research that places early communicative development in the context of familiar experiences that occur over time. (BB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Symbolization and Fallacy.
Hample, Dale – 1980
Research indicates that people have two distinct information processing modalities, one for verbal material and one for nonverbal material. The nonverbal mode is used for visual images and is characterized by creative and relatively undisciplined associations. The verbal mode deals with abstract stimuli and is restrained by logic and the need to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Thinking
Cognitive Mastery of Grammar Rules in Foreign Language Learning. Some Experimental Work Based on the Vygotskian Model.
Carpay, Jacques – 1980
The research discussed here, primarily that of P.J. Gal'perin and his associates at the University of Moscow, is an experimental demonstration of basic tenets of Vygotsky's theory. According to Gal'perin, grammatical knowledge is formed first by teaching the students material grammatical actions; these actions are ultimately to become mental…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Dutch, Grammar