This annotated bibliography on the teaching of modern foreign languages is the product of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. The bibliography is published quarterly and lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics as well as with a number of institutions all over…

This is a longitudinal study of a child's acquisition of Mandarin phonology between the ages of 1;2 and 2;8. During this period, the child was much less verbal than many children reported in other child phonology studies. The study consists of two parts. The first part is a description of the child's "proto-language," in which he used…

The development of sentence coordination in children using sentences conjoined by "and" was studied to test the adequacy of the transformationally based derivational theory of complexity. Two cross-sectional experiments were conducted using 18 sentence types with children between the ages of three and five. One experiment used an elicited…

Significant cases of research in terms of their effect on school practices have been extensively documented by educational researchers. This booklet summarizes nine such studies, which are published in detail in a companion volume ("Impact of Research on Education: Some Case Studies"). These studies have a variety reasonably characteristic of…

Each of the 12 articles in this book deals with an aspect of linguistics theory and its application to understanding or teaching reading. The topics covered include: defining reading in proper perspective, the relevance of applied linguistics for teachers of reading, why children should want to learn to read, dialects and reading, the features of…

Focusing on the acquisition of semantic features and the relation between semantic and perceptual features, this study further tests the "semantic feature hypothesis," where a child acquires full adult word meaning component by component, and its complementary "correlation hypothesis," which claims that the source of these semantic features lies…

This book is designed to assist those who work with non-English dominant students by providing resource information relevant to second language teaching and learning. The articles in the series encompass both theory and practical learning techniques in six general topics. The articles in the first text of the series, concerning background and…

An historical overview of research on second language acquisition considers research topics examined in observational/longitudinal studies and experimental studies. The questions that have reappeared across both observational and experimental studies concern: (1) whether second language learning is the same or different from first language…

Conceptual and syntactic strategies in reading a foreign language are considered with attention to the functioning of the sentence parser. Topics of analysis include: the theoretical background and the educational relevance of the question of strategies; a study of the relative importance of the two parsing principles (syntactically guided…

The question is addressed whether a child would develop a communication system if a conventional linguistic model is absent. Six congenitally deaf children, who were not exposed to Sign Language, were observed and videotaped at play in their homes at intervals of one to three months. The children ranged in age from 1 year, 5 months to 4 years, 1…

THE FIRST CHAPTER IN THIS ILLUSTRATED TEXT DEALS WITH THE FINNO-UGRIC PEOPLES IN THE LIGHT OF PHILOLOGY. THE AUTHOR CLASSIFIES THIS LANGUAGE FAMILY AS COMPRISING ONE OF THE TWO MAIN BRANCHES OF URALIC (THE OTHER BEING THE SAMOYED GROUP). SUBDIVISIONS OF FINNO-UGRIC ARE BALTO-FINNIC, LAPP, VOLGA-FINNIC, PERMIAN, AND UGRIC. THE HISTORY OF THESE…

MANY PUPILS ENTER FIRST GRADE EACH YEAR WHO ARE LINGUISTICALLY HANDICAPPED AND ARE UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE TRADITIONAL READING PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE BEEN DESIGNED FOR THE MIDDLE-CLASS ANGLO-SAXON STEREOTYPE. THESE MINORITY GROUP YOUNGSTERS FALL MAINLY INTO TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES. THE FIRST GROUP IS MADE UP OF NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN WHOSE…

THERE ARE SEVERAL NOTEWORTHY DEVELOPMENTS AND SOME UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN FOREIGN- AND SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING. INTENSIFIED INTEREST IN INCREASING NUMBERS OF SPANISH-SPEAKING INHABITANTS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST IS THE MOST VISIBLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA OF SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING. IN FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LEARNING, WHERE THE EMPHASIS IS ON…

THE IMPORTANT PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE YEARLY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION IN ELEMENTARY READING SINCE 1960 ARE LISTED WITH ANNOTATIONS, AND THE COMPLETE TEXT OF EACH PAPER IS PROVIDED. THE 345 PAPERS ARE PRESENTED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES--(1) THE OBJECTIVES AND GOALS IN READING, (2) READING PROGRAMS, (3)…

A SEPARATE LANGUAGE MANUAL FOR THE NEBRASKA ELEMENTARY ENGLISH CURRICULUM SUPPLEMENTS THE LANGUAGE-EXPLORATION SECTIONS OF THE UNITS IN GRADES ONE THROUGH SIX. THIS RESOURCE MANUAL PROVIDES AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN LANGUAGE STUDY AND DESCRIBES ITS APPLICATION TO THE LANGUAGE LEARNING LEVELS OF CHILDREN. BY THE TIME CHILDREN ENTER JUNIOR HIGH…