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Locke, John L. – 1993
A major synthesis of the latest research on early language acquisition, this book explores what gives infants the remarkable capacity to progress from babbling to meaningful sentences, and what inclines a child to speak. The book examines the neurological, perceptual, social, and linguistic aspects of language acquisition in young children, from…
Descriptors: Autism, Biological Influences, Blindness, Child Language
Chesnick, M. A.; And Others – 1992
This study investigated the development of oral metalinguistic abilities in 140 children (ages 5-12) with oral language or reading impairments. The study focused on determining the difficulties that children with these different types of problems have at different ages in the elementary school years and determining how metalinguistic abilities…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Oostendorp, Herrre van, Ed.; Zwaah, Rolf A., Ed. – 1994
A collection of essays on the comprehension of text brings together perspectives of different disciplines on discourse. Articles include: "Naturalistic Texts and Naturalistic Tasks" (Herre van Oostendorp, Rolf A. Zwaan); "Psychological Studies of Naturalistic Text" (Arthur C. Graesser, Joseph P. Magliano, Karl Haberlandt);…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Demuth, Katherine – 1989
An autosegmental account of the child's acquisition of grammatical tone in Sesotho, a southern Bantu language, is presented. The following theoretical questions are addressed: (1) When and how does the child figure out that Sesotho is a tonal rather than intonational, stress, or accentual language?; (2) How does the child acquire tonal rules?; and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bantu Languages, Case Studies, Child Language
Otto, Beverly – 1991
A study examined emergent readers' reconstructions of familiar storybook texts for evidence of cohesive harmony. The study focused on: the range of cohesive harmony; whether the level of cohesive harmony would reach linguistic significance; and whether patterns within the original text would emerge. Fourteen inner-city kindergartners were…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Nord, James R. – Nagoya University of Commerce Bulletin, 1986
In order to teach anything, two fundamental questions must be asked and answered continually: What should be taught, and how should it be taught? The answer to the second question is highly dependent on the answer to the first, but the present answer to the first question is inadequate and inappropriate to today's communication tools. Language…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Equipment Utilization, Interaction
Patrie, James – 1986
In linguistic analysis of the speech act, the data used to support theoretical conclusions are too often comprised of semantically isolated utterances of the ideal speaker-hearer. In reality, one of the most revealing kinds of data is imperfect data, where the functioning language processes are often unmasked. The study of first language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Davison, Alice – 1986
Defining readability in both the narrow sense of formula use and refinement and the broader sense of the processing and comprehension of language, this paper argues for the need for more research focusing on readability as a way of improving the match between reader and text. Following a brief introduction, the paper reviews current readability…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Language Processing, Non English Speaking
Seleskovitch, Danica – 1982
Impromptu speech is heard only once, at a rate of perception that depends on the speaker's delivery, and is specifically adapted to the listeners. These features trigger cognitive activities that facilitate translation. Impromptu speech is characterized by a constant interconnection between cognitive competence and language competence and between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Correlation, Discourse Analysis
Read, Charles; And Others – 1979
Children and adults participated in a series of experiments to examine certain cues to surface constituency that are salient to children in the recognition of syntactic structure. Cue recognition was studied through a set of experiments requiring seven-year-old children to repeat certain syntactic constituents. It was found that the children could…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Context Clues, Grade 2
Galvan, Max – 1986
Using ethnographic methodology, a study investigated the writing processes, in English, of 10 Spanish-speaking bilingual/bicultural graduate students and the possible influence of their linguistic and cultural backgrounds upon these processes. All subjects had been born and initially schooled through the twelfth grade in Latin America, and had…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Background
Henderson, Nancy B.; Pine, Shirley J. – 1985
This study investigated the diagnostic effectiveness of the Language Assessment Tasks (LAT) in differentiating language disordered students from nonhandicapped students. LAT was administered individually to two groups of subjects (experimental and control) matched for sex, race, and birthdate (ages 9-14 years). The performances of each group of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comprehension, Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Robinson, Richard D.; Hulett, Joycelin – 1984
Intended for parents and educators, this monograph briefly describes the relationship between the language processes of reading and writing and suggests some ways language development can be encouraged in young children. The monograph begins by recognizing that writing is a process consisting of prewriting, writing, and rewriting, and urges…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment, Language Experience Approach
Adams, Marilyn Jager – 1986
This paper discusses ways that students can better be taught to think. It argues that poor/low-achieving students served by Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 could genuinely profit from instruction on thinking and that, for maximum impact, such instruction should be introduced as a course in itself, separate from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Compensatory Education
Hancock, Anne Campbell; Byrd, Diana – 1984
A study tested the hypothesis that learning disabled (LD), specifically reading disabled, children differ from "normal" children in their ability to acquire automatic perceptual processes. The subjects were 16 third grade and 15 sixth grade students, of whom 7 third grade and 3 sixth grade students were classified as LD. LaBerge's letter…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
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