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Teacher Verbal Behavior and Its Relationship to Growth in Child Language.
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Barbour, Nita Hale
The purpose of this study was to examine specific feautres of child language change as determined by change in vocabulary, complexity of sentences and functional use of sentences, and relationships of these changes to the teachers' facilitative or directive verbal behavior. Subjects were 112 nursery school children. Teacher verbal behavior was…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Observation Techniques, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children