The influence of children's levels of field-dependence-independence on their performance with the passive transformation was investigated. Eighty 6th graders, classified as field-dependent or field-independent, were presented with sentence-question combinations, each in either the active or passive voice, and numbers of correct responses were…

This study examined the feasibility of one method of investigating the development of children's implicit awareness of syntactic patterns. An enriched version of the free association format was used to test 32 subjects. The principal variables of interest were the subject's grade level, and the syntactic pattern and meaningfulness of the semantic…

The object of this book is to make clear, by the use of a minimum number of examples, generally taken from French, that science encounters in languages phenomena which are organized according to structure. These phenomena function as tools of communication among men in a society at a given place and time, and as subjects in the evolution that…

An instructor's text-workbook, consisting of fifteen booklets, to accompany LINC Communications Developmental Reading course, is presented. Five Unit Headings are: Word Analysis; Word Meaning; Literal Comprehension; Interpretive Comprehension; Evaluative Comprehension. An answer key is provided. Booklets and key are bound separately for inclusion…

Two experiments are reported investigating young children's comprehension of linguistic reference to past and future times. Available from Plenum Publishing Corp., 227 W. 17th St., New York, NY 10011. (Author/RM)

Creative drama and language experiences are described as ways of improving speech and language learning in communication disordered children. (CL)

Makes an analogy between the formation of a Creole and the language acquisition process in a child. (AM)

Investigators determined that recent research, showing no sex differences as to the age at which children acquire language, actually may have employed techniques inferior to those used in earlier studies, which showed that girls were more advanced. (MP)

Twenty-four language-disordered children (ages 3-8 years) were trained, through modeling with a problem-solving set, to produce a question form involving a "wh" word--"who", "what", or "where"--in a structure requiring either auxiliary "is" or auxiliary "does." (Author)

Suggests ways to create dramatic play environments in which children can have experiences with all the language arts. (DD)

Children between the ages of 6 and 11 learn to understand and use the relative pronouns "qui" and "que." The closer the subordinate clause is to favorite word order, the easier it is for the child. (MLA)

A review of research reveals that explicit knowledge of language is not always desirable; instead, children should be exposed to language and have experiences which provoke language use. (DD)

Children's books contributee to language development by employing the teaching techniques of sentence repetition and expansion. (DD)