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Knight, Elizabeth M. – 1981
The paper discusses principles of a Montgomery County (Maryland) program to train regular teachers in approaches to cross cultural assessment. The program originated because of overreferral of limited English proficient (LEP) students for special education evaluation and placement. The program stresses four major areas: (1) changing the teacher's…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Bartlett, Brendan J. – 1981
A top-level structure learning strategy is described in this paper. Topics covered in the paper are (1) strategic use of knowledge about top-level structure, including how the strategy works, the spontaneous use of the strategy, and the acquired use of the strategy; (2) fundamental steps in programs of instruction involving the top-level structure…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies
Geissal, Mary Ann; Knafle, June D. – 1978
To determine whether miscue analysis instruction changed their perceptions of the seriousness of certain kinds of errors in children's oral reading, 60 undergraduate and graduate students were given an error survey to complete before and after being given such instruction. Each of the 32 items of the survey consisted of a pair of sentences, with…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Linguistics
Download full textGrossberg, Lawrence; Christians, Clifford G. – 1978
The manner in which hermeneutics (the study of the interpretive process) has treated the phenomenon of interpretation is examined in this paper. Following a historical review of hermeneutics from its Hellenic roots through the phase of traditional hermeneutics to the major reformulation of the field by Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Greek Civilization, History
Eco, Umberto – 1979
The essays in this book focus on the role of the reader in textual interpretation. Specifically, they examine "open" and "closed" texts. The three essays in Part I deal with both verbal and nonverbal texts. The first considers musical compositions that leave considerable autonomy to the individual performer and also discusses…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Comics (Publications), Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Theory
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
In this report, three theories of transitive inference are compared as they apply to the solution of linear syllogisms: a spatial theory, a linguistic theory, and a new mixed linguistic-spatial theory. Each theory is expressed in terms of an information-processing (flow chart) model and a mathematical model that quantifies the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Damarin, Suzanne K. – 1978
The author presents an organizational model which exhibits relationships among preservcie teachers' skills in the use of interpretation of logical connectives in mathematical contexts. The model also provides direction to teahcers of courses on mathematics and mathematics methods who seek to acquaint their students with those notions of logic…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Instruction, Learning
Blachowicz, Camille L. Z. – 1978
To ascertain whether subjects spanning the range of reading acquisition exhibit semantic constructivity when confronted with a silent reading task, a study was conducted involving 120 second, fifth, and seventh graders, and 30 graduate students. For purposes of the study, semantic constructivity was defined as the uncued production of inferences…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Gordon, Alice M. – 1975
The complexity of language of four, five, and six year old children was examined in a psycholinguistic study that attempted to differentiate the characteristics of sentences that were difficult for children to comprehend from those which were easy, and to discover whether children used a subject-verb-object (S-V-O) language strategy to interpret…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Aitchison, Jean – 1976
Intended as an introduction to psycholinguistics from the linguist's point of view, this book addresses itself to three main topics: the innateness of language, the relationship of linguistic knowledge to language usage, and the comprehension and production of speech. In 12 chapters, the book discusses the nature of language development, the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Ability
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1979
Two studies were undertaken to continue a line of research designed to identify the subskills of word identification that correlate most highly with reading comprehension and to develop empirically based instruments to assess those subskills. The issues studied related to the broad area of structural analysis and concerned assessment of skills in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Van Metre, Patricia D. – 1978
The interview techniques developed by Carol Chomsky were used in a comparative study of the language acquisition of 32 bilingual and monolingual third grade students. After these students were matched for age, socioeconomic status, IQ, family environment (both parents in the home), and reading ability, they were placed in four…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Herrick, Earl M. – 1978
This computer program, a mechanization of the handsorted techniques which geographical dialectology has been using, increases the number of hypotheses that can be explored and the various correlations that can be made. It can draw several of the kinds of maps that dialectologists have used in direct atlases. The hardware, software, and program…
Descriptors: Atlases, Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Dialect Studies
Cordasco, Francesco, Comp.; Bernstein, George, Comp. – 1979
Most entries in this bibliography on bilingual education are annotated. Entries are arranged by subject as follows: (1) bibliographies and general references; (2) general and miscellaneous; (3) historical and sociocultural perspectives; (4) curriculum, programs, guidance, and counseling; (5) English as a second language; (6) teacher education,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development
HEBERT, RAYMOND J.; POPPE, NICHOLAS – 1964
THIS MANUAL IS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A REFERENCE RATHER THAN A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR FOR ANYONE WISHING TO LEARN TO READ MODERN KIRGHIZ. A TURKIC LANGUAGE, KIRGHIZ IS SPOKEN MAINLY IN THE KIRGHIZ SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, AND TO A LESSER EXTENT IN THE SINKIANG-UIGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC, THE KAZAKH, UZBEK, AND THE…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cyrillic Alphabet, Glossaries, Grammar
