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Vaughn, Meredith Houle; Gatling, Anne – Science and Children, 2013
English language learners (ELLs) bring a wealth of knowledge to science classrooms, yet often that knowledge is untapped by traditional instruction and assessment. As classrooms become increasingly diverse, it is critical to recognize the depth of understandings ELLs bring to classrooms to explain the scientific world around them. English language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Inquiry, Language Acquisition, Plants (Botany)
Selective Imitation of the Passive Construction through Modeling
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Whitehurst, Grover J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Imitation, Language Acquisition, Observational Learning, Preschool Children
Morpheme Learning of Children with Specific Language Impairment under Controlled Instructional Conditions.
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Connell, Phil J.; Stone, C. Addison – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Comparison of 32 children (ages 5-7) with specific language impairments (SLI) and normally developing children matched for either age or language development found that the SLI children, unlike either control group, performed significantly better for morpheme production tasks in an imitation instruction condition than in a modeling condition.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Significant Progress in Child Language Intervention: An 11-Year Retrospective.
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Goldstein, Howard; Hockenberger, Elaine Hontz – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This review identifies five themes of child language intervention: (1) development of augmentative and alternative communication systems; (2) provision of language stimulation to take advantage of observational learning; (3) teaching of various language functions; (4) teaching of language as a means of environmental and self-control; and (5) study…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Intervention
Using Structured Discourse as a Language Intervention Technique with Autistic Children.
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Scherer, Nancy J.; Olswang, Lesley B. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
A structured discourse strategy, employing child echoic imitations and adult expansion, was used to teach five autistic preschool children two-term semantic relations. The strategy increased the children's initial spontaneous imitations of two-term relations. Following the imitation increase, spontaneous productions of the two-term relations…
Descriptors: Autism, Discourse Analysis, Imitation, Interpersonal Communication
Elicited Imitation Revisited: A Comparison with Spontaneous Language Production.
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Fujiki, Martin; Brinton, Bonnie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987
Thirteen subjects (aged 5:6 to 6:6) with language disorders were given elicited imitation and spontaneous language tasks, and their performance was compared among and within subjects. The two procedures produced significantly correlated results for some children but not for others. Analysis of specific syntactic forms also produced variable…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expressive Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition
The Natural Method of Language Learning: Systematized.
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Hobson, Arline B. – 1973
In this monograph, the language and pedagogical concepts embodied in the Tucson Early Education Model are used to develop a systematized method of natural language learning. It is hypothesized that young children in school continually resystematize their language, and that conscious and systematic modeling by the teacher should accelerate this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Feedback, Intentional Learning