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von Gillern, Sam; Stufft, Carolyn – Literacy, 2023
This study examines how 31 middle-school children conducted multimodal analyses of video games. Over four consecutive days, students played video games for 30 minutes and then wrote written reflections about the multimodal symbols within the game and how these symbols influenced their interpretation and decision-making processes during gameplay.…
Descriptors: Children, Middle School Students, Metacognition, Play

Winetrout, Kenneth; Pratte, Richard – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1973
Reprinted from the November 1971 issue of the Journal of Thought.'' (DD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analytical Criticism, Educational Philosophy, Language Patterns
Davis, John B., Jr. – 1967
High school and undergraduate subjects were randomly assigned to either a semantic or symbolic learning program concerning the computation of the derivative of an algebraic expression and the multiplication of vectors in order to study aptitude-achievement interaction. Results of achievement and ability tests indicated that there does exist…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations

Cardaci, E. W. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1973
Analyzes concept formation in children based on the precepts of general semantics. (RB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation

Yovetich, William S.; Young, Theresa A. – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
Twenty college students, naive to Blissymbols, were asked to "guess" the meaning of 64 Blissymbols presented without their word gloss. The influence of symbol representativeness and the concreteness of associated word labels on the symbols'"guessability" was analyzed. The guessability of a symbol's gloss was significantly…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Character Recognition, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Disabilities
HOROWITZ, ARNOLD E. – 1967
THE RESEARCH REPORTED HERE CONCERNED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHORF HYPOTHESIS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SOME LINGUISTIC AND REFERENT DIMENSION VARIABLES ON THE LEARNING OF MINIATURE LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS. A MINIATURE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM (MLS) IS A…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Cultural Influences
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, these two sections are part of a unit on words. The first section, consisting of 5 lessons, aims to make the student aware of (1) words as an integral part of the language and (2) the tremendous number of words he already knows and can use. The second section, "What We Know about…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Grade 5
Noens, Ilse L. J.; van Berckelaer-Onnes, Ina A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2005
The communication of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by a qualitative impairment in verbal and non-verbal communication. In past decades a growing body of descriptive studies has appeared on language and communication problems in ASD. Reviews suggest that the development of formal and semantic aspects is relatively…
Descriptors: Semantics, Communication Problems, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Stabler, John R.; Goldberg, Faye J. – 1973
Although many authors have mentioned examples of how black usually connotes a negative evaluation and white a positive evaluation, the literature on the topic has not yet included an attempt to list examples comprehensively. Those which are cited here come from a wide variety of sources: primarily from dictionaries, books of slang, and personal…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Color, Evaluative Thinking
Wax, Murray L.; Luhman, Reid A. – 1974
The study examined the relation of language use and logical thought to social experience with both age and class held constant. The primary assumptions under study were: that the logic of symbolic grouping was highly sensitive to a child's experience with the objects to which that logic was applied; that the existence of diglossia in a bilingual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes