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Marzano, Robert J.; DiStefano, Philip – 1978
Seven hundred and fifty compositions, randomly selected from National Assessment of Educational Progress essays written by 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds, were analyzed in a study of the skills that go into the writing of a good composition. The essays were first rated as high, medium, or low in quality. A total of 43 different indices reported or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Kaplan-Sanoff, Margot – 1979
Findings from a study comparing the effects of segregated versus mainstreamed preschool settings on handicapped and non-handicapped children strongly suggest that mainstreaming is the preferable alternative for all types of handicapped preschool children. Initially, handicapped children in both segregated and mainstreamed settings were found to be…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Handicapped Children, Language Usage, Mainstreaming
Download full textMUMA, JOHN R. – 1967
THE FREQUENCY OF 'ASPECT' (PERFECT AND PROGRESSIVE IN THE AUXILIARY) WAS REPORTED FOR RETARDED, NORMAL, AND SUPERIOR CHILDREN ACROSS AGE AND THE ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE MODALITIES. DATA WERE LIMITED IN SEVERAL RESPECTS, PARTICULARLY SIZE OF SAMPLE. THIS IS A PILOT STUDY RATHER THAN A SERIOUS EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND PROCESSES OF LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Grammar, Handicapped Children
MILLER, EBERT L.; TOVATT, ANTHONY L. – 1967
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECT OF CERTAIN ORAL-AURAL-VISUAL (OAV) STIMULI PROCEDURES ON DEVELOPMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITTEN COMPOSITION (AND OTHER ENGLISH SKILLS) OF NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS IN BURRIS LABORATORY SCHOOL, BALL STATE UNIVERSITY. THE STUDY WAS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE PROFICIENT WRITER SAYS AND HEARS AT A SUB-VOCAL LEVEL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Auditory Stimuli, English Instruction, Grade 9
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. Women's Educational Equity Act Dissemination Center. – 1980
This training manual for preschool teachers explains the philosophy behind several non-sexist teaching techniques and offers concrete suggestions for implementing non-sexist educational practices and concepts in the classroom. Section One provides a rationale for non-sexist preschool education and reviews organized efforts leading to the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum, Fathers, Guidelines
Ives, William; Rakow, Joel – 1980
The role of verbalization in children's mental operations was studied by comparing the mental operations children used in spatial perspective tasks (indicating another's view) and rotation tasks (imagining an object's rotation and one's own subsequent view). Each of 96 children (equal numbers of boys and girls, kindergarten and second grade…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Ability
Patterson, Jean Scarborough – 1979
The Spanish syntax of 36 English-Spanish bilingual students at the University of Texas at El Paso was examined to determine the variety and extent of English influence on Spanish syntax and to correlate the relative extent of this influence with selected extra-linguistic factors. The most significant finding was that the group of students having…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Tovey, Hilary – 1978
This report, based on the materials used by the Committee on Irish Language Attitudes Research, describes the relations between language policy and socioeconomic development in the Republic of Ireland. Their contribution to central state planning in the maintenance and extension of Irish since attainment of political independence in 1922 is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Role, Government Role, Language Ability
Gorman, Thomas P., Ed. – 1977
Comprising a study of the application of linguistics to literacy, the 16 papers in this book were prepared by contributors from both developing and developed nations. The papers in the first section illustrate the relevance of certain developments in theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics to literacy teaching.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Christie, Frances – 1979
The national Language Development Project in Australia, an undertaking concerned with informing teachers on matters to do with language, language development, and language and learning, is described in this report. The various sections of the report establish the project's purposes; offer discussions of developments in thinking and research of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Stauble, Ann-Marie E. – 1977
The language development processes of decreolization and second language acquisition are compared. The decreolization of Guyanese creole negation and the acquisition of the English negative by an adult Spanish speaker are described. Each process is seen as a series of internal changes on a continuum of developmental stages which bring speakers…
Descriptors: Creoles, Culture Contact, English (Second Language), Language Research
Kochman, Thomas – 1969
In this paper, the author (1) weighs the educational value of an oral language program which attempts to teach standard dialect to speakers of a nonstandard dialect and (2) considers the probable success of such a program, given the present social trends. He voices the following objections: (a) teaching a speaker of nonstandard dialect the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Education, Black Employment, Black Power
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1968
The purpose of this 10th-grade unit on language is to pose, for students, basic and tentative questions about the rhetorical uses of language. Examples are provided which designate the modes of language: Daniel Fogarty's story of rhetoric to show language which informs; materials from Northrop Frye to show language which inquires; a John F.…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Alexis, Gerhard T. – Minnesota English Journal, 1968
Attempts to combine language and composition in the freshman English course at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) should interest all teachers of English. One project utilized a single key word for several assignments. Students were asked to (1) think through the meaning of the word for a week and write definitions and associations,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Content, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Polanyi, Livia – 1977
Several types of narrative errors are discussed that were found in the course of an analysis of stories collected in casual settings from a number of American speakers in undirected conversation. The approach to the question of error correction is sociocultural; the emphasis is on the motivation for the error correction. This paper explores the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
