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Stahl, Steven A.; Erickson, Lawrence G. – 1984
A study compared the performance of 12 reading disabled and 15 normally achieving third grade students and 11 normally achieving first grade students on a variety of measures at different levels of language and reading in order to examine several macro models of reading disability--specifically, the general language, rule abstraction, and speed of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Grade 3
Thrush, Emily A.; Hardisty, David – 1989
Computer networking has made many new activities available to language learners. While these innovations are practical, they are also grounded in theory and justifiable on sound principles of language learning. Computers make possible classroom activities maximizing the benefit drawn from complex and otherwise unmanageable communicative…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks
Gasser, Michael – 1986
A framework for describing relationships among the different linguistic systems in a bilingual or second language learner is proposed. The framework attempts to represent the ways in which knowledge of one language is used in integrating into memory new knowledge about another language. The model is partially implemented in a computer program that…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Computer Software, English, Grammar
van Hoek, Karen; And Others – 1987
A study examined aspects of the acquisition of spatialized morphology and syntax in American Sign Language (ASL) learned natively by deaf children of deaf parents. Children aged 2 to 8 were shown story books to elicit narratives, and the resulting use of verbs contained morphological forms not appearing in adult grammar. Analysis of the creative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Deafness
Mazuka, Reiko; And Others – 1986
A cross-linguistic comparison of syntax acquisition patterns examined preferential subject omission in the naturally-occurring speech of three Japanese toddlers from the Tokyo area and compared the findings to data on English acquisition. Results indicate that acquisition patterns of Japanese do not mirror those of English with regard to this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Greeno, James G.; And Others – 1985
Research was conducted investigating properties of skill in learning, in the domain of elementary algebra. Thinking-aloud protocols indicate that early knowledge of the subjects studied was fragmentary, rather than involving systematically flawed procedures. Computational models, developed to simulate observed errors, focused on the role of…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns
Matthiessen, Christian; Kasper, Robert – 1987
Consisting of two separate papers, "Representational Issues in Systemic Functional Grammar," by Christian Matthiessen and "Systemic Grammar and Functional Unification Grammar," by Robert Kasper, this document deals with systemic aspects of natural language processing and linguistic theory and with computational applications of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Computational Linguistics
Froese, Victor; Phillips-Riggs, Linda – 1984
In addressing selected aspects of the language arts from the context of an integrative language paradigm, this paper focuses on the results of three studies recently completed in Manitoba, which help to shed some light on three modes of expression--dictation, independent writing, and retelling--in the primary grades. The first part of the paper…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Dictation, Expressive Language
Harlin, Rebecca P. – 1984
A study examined prereaders' story processing strategies by assessing their performance on tasks that tapped their ability to (1) use story grammar and role playing, (2) retell a wordless picture book, (3) read a predictable book, (4) retell an oral story, (5) sequence pictured story events, and (6) fingerpoint-read a nursery rhyme. Parent…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Massaro, Dominic W. – 1977
Language processing is the abstraction of meaning from a physical signal, such as a sequence of speech sounds. Processing a spoken message requires a series of transformations that begin with the acoustic signal arriving at the ears and end with meaning in the mind of the listener. The goal of this information-processing model is to describe how…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
Torrance, Nancy; Olson, David R. – 1982
The language of 29 Canadian children was sampled during the first two years of schooling in free conversations and in more formal school-like tasks as part of a three-year longitudinal study of the properties of oral language and their relation to other measures of cognitive, linguistic, and reading performance. The language samples were subjected…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis
Blass, Rosanne J. – 1980
Reflecting the work of Yetta Goodman on child language development, this paper examines Goodman's five "roots of literacy" and offers suggestions on classroom techniques for nurturing these roots. The first half of the paper explains how Goodman identified the roots of literacy and describes each of them, including (1) print awareness in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Techniques
Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1981
Kindergarten children differ in how close they are to becoming readers and writers. A study investigated the dictated and handwritten materials of 24 kindergarten children. In each of two sessions, three language productions were obtained: a told story, a dictated story, and a handwritten story. Additionally, samples of rereading and editing were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Research, Handwriting, Kindergarten
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Rodgon, Maris Monitz – 1977
This paper reports on two aspects of dyadic communication skills: verbal imitation, and response to questions and commands, as they relate to the development of semantic functions in three English-speaking children. The children, aged 16, 21 and 22 months, were unobtrusively videotaped during weekly free play sessions with their mothers. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Imitation
Kemper, Susan – 1978
The experiments described in this paper compare inference-based and expectancy-based models of the comprehension of indirect, non-literal expressions. The inference-based model claims that the comprehension of non-literal meanings requires more and deeper processing than the comprehension of literal meanings. The expectancy-based model rests on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Context Clues, Figurative Language
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