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Raghavendra, Parimala; Fristoe, Macalyne – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Forty 3-year-olds learned either 12 standard Blissymbols (SBS) or their enhanced forms (EBS). Results demonstrated that the subjects learned EBS faster than SBS, remembered more EBS than SBS, did not differ in the communicative use of SBS and EBS, and were affected more negatively when presented with the untrained SBS than EBS. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Preschool Education, Retention (Psychology), Symbolic Language
Yeni-Komshian, Grace H.; Lambert, Wallace E. – J Educ Psychol, 1969
Part II of the first author's PhD dissertation, submitted to McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1965).
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Instruction, Language Research, Learning Processes
Fredrick, Wayne C.; And Others – 1968
Seventy-two grade 8 students were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups. One group studied five programed lessons in structural grammar, written without use of symbols or diagrams. A second group studied the same content presented with a symbolic notation to represent the grammar concepts. A third group studied the same content…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Grammar, Language Instruction