Describes an innovative way to present poetry (to children in Grades 1, 3, and 7) through creative movement. Children learn to dramatize poetic imagery, making it meaningful through their own sensory experience. (CS)

The study involving 36 learning disabled elementary students investigated a data based model of remedial phonics instruction which incorporated such principles as providing focus, teaching for mastery, distributing practice, training for discrimination, and emphasizing strategies for transfer. Ss, drawn from special education classes or clinics,…

In addition to componential aspects of verb meaning, children must also acquire a representation of each verb's combinatorial properties or propositional schema, i.e., the number of arguments with which it is obligatorily or optionally associated. The present study investigated developmental changes in children's awareness of the combinatorial…

This study reports the interrater agreement of the Maternal Language Classification Scale (MLCS), a functional language classification system, developed partly to avoid problems identified with previous scales. The MLCS is a comprehensive system for classifying the functional content of maternal language addressed to children whose mean length of…

Children's acquisition of developmental milestones is examined within the framework of a developmental-interactive system. Piaget's stages of cognitive development are reviewed and developmental aspects of language acquisition including inner language and expressive language are discussed. (JMB)

RECENT RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT WAS REVIEWED, AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSFORMING DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH INTO PRESCRIPTIONS FOR EDUCATION WERE DISCUSSED. RESEARCH FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRESCHOOL TEACHING WERE MADE UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADINGS--(1) THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR, STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE, (2) THE ACQUISITION OF…

The spontaneous speech of two Zulu girls was monitored for use of nominals. The data for one girl, 23 months, are reported in detail. Analysis of prefixed and prefixless nouns in isolated citation forms and in syntactic construction revealed that the child perceived the internal structure of nouns before the age of two, although the prefix often…

Children ranging in age from 1;1 to 1;3 were presented with 16 contrived lexical concepts, each consisting of a nonsense word (eight object words and eight action words) and four unfamiliar exemplars that served as the referents for that word. Overall, the children used 65% of the experimental words one or more times to refer to at least one of…

A BILINGUAL-IN-PROCESS COULD BE A CHILD GROWING UP IN A BILINGUAL ADULT MILIEU, OR AN ADULT WHO HAS MOVED TO A DIFFERENT LINGUISTIC MILIEU. THE LEARNING PROCESS MIGHT BE CASUAL EXPOSURE OR SYSTEMATIC PEDAGOGY. THERE IS STRONG EVIDENCE THAT FOR CHILDREN UNDER ELEVEN LANGUAGE IS SOUND AND FOR ADULTS, SENSE. CHILDREN ATTEND MORE TO THE SURFACE, JUST…

The spoken mode of human communication, which leaves no permanent record of itself, is often accounted of less worth or importance than the written or printed word. Such a bias makes it difficult to see certain advantages which accrue to speech communication because of the ephemerality of speech communication. In general, the ephemerality of…

The central aim of this paper and its projected successors is to prove in detail that stimulus-response theory, or at least a mathematically precise version, can give an account of the learning of many phrase-structure grammars. Section 2 is concerned with standard notions of finite and probabilistic automata. An automaton is defined as a device…

This article reviews the prose literary styles used in literary Arabic in the period following the Second World War, and attempts to explain the considerable relationship between these prose styles and the developments which characterize Arabic prose in terms of form and content in this period. The work is based on a study of 36 authors…

The value for teachers of an introductory course in the historical development of the English language is justified. The teacher's ability to read understandingly and enrich the student's understanding of what he reads presupposes some knowledge of the political and social history which constituted the background against which are read the great…

Language acquisition is a quantifiable system with the sum total of verbal inputs and outputs increasing with the age of the subject. Increases in vocabulary are positively accelerated during developmental years and become negatively accelerated or zero during adult years. Thus, older people have available a larger active and passive vocabulary.…