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Direct linkvon 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
Peer reviewedThal, Donna; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
The relationship between language and symbolic gesture was studied in nine children (ages 18-32 months) who were in the lowest 10 percent for language production for their age. Subjects performed like language-matched controls on a lexical production task. On a syntax-related task, they performed like age-matched and significantly better than…
Descriptors: Child Development, Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Communication
Peer reviewedBain, Bruce; Yu, Agnes – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1991
Debates the merits of the claim that "symbolic technologies push cognitive growth earlier and longer." The results of an assessment are presented that involved three adult male peasants (two literate, one nonliterate) living in rural China and their ability to recall the text of "The Lonesome Opossum." (25 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Download full textKrug, Richard F. – 1968
Designed to help the teacher of young deaf children teach syntax, the text presents a general orientation to the program as well as a review of the specific goals of language instruction. An overview of the early stages of instruction discusses symbol development (as the child becomes aware print has meaning) and illustrates how to help the child…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
Chomsky, Carol – 1969
In this research monograph, several areas of disparity between child and adult grammar are examined to discover at what ages the child, who is on the border of adult language competence, achieves a certain mastery of complex syntactic structures. Chapters include (1) a discussion of current notions on the nature of the linguistic process and a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Comprehension, Context Clues
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
