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Owens, Maire – 1986
The acquisition of Irish as a second language in a four-year-old child of bilingual parents attending an Irish-language preschool group in Ireland is chronicled, with emphasis on the characteristic features of her language learning process and the factors determining which language she uses with others. The study was based on transcribed…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language)
Stice, Carole F.; Waddell, Jill – 1985
Research conducted since the early 1970s has provided important insights into how written language develops and how teachers can best foster that growth. One of these promotes the holistic approach to language instruction--to nurture the emergent speller is to nurture the emergent reader, writer, speaker, listener, and thinker. Another important…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 6 titles discuss the following topics: (1) the effects of comparison/contrast writing instruction on the reading comprehension of tenth-grade students; (2) an exploration of the role of language awareness in high school students'…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities
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Dale, Rick – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
The past 20 years have seen research on language acquisition in the cognitive sciences grow immensely. The current paper offers a fairly extensive review of this literature, arguing that new cognitive theories and empirical data are perfectly consistent with core predictions a behavior analytic approach makes about language development. The review…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Prediction, Grammar
Peters, Ann M. – 1976
It is proposed that in studying the development of children's speech, the findings in the data are heavily influenced by what is expected to be found on the basis of our theoretical preconceptions. This phenomenon is actually more widespread than has previously been acknowledged, and our expectations about how children learn language may have to…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Imitation
Read, Charles; And Others – 1978
This paper examines certain of the cues to surface constituency that are salient to children in the comprehension of syntactic structure. Accessibility is studied through a set of experiments requiring seven-year-old children to repeat certain syntactic constituents. These children can correctly identify subjects and also predicate phrases with…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Educational Research, Grade 2
Kessler, Carolyn; Quinn, Mary Ellen – 1978
In order to examine the emergence of semantic notions and their interaction with the linguistic codes of bilingual children, this paper focuses on acquisition of a semantic field related to Piagetian tasks of conservation. The hypothesis examined in this study states that the manifestation of a concept will occur first in the bilingual's dominant…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
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Wagner, Daniel A. – 1978
The interest of the psychologist in bilingualism from its origins in the early 1900's to the present is traced. Bilingualism and intelligence are discussed as well as some recent studies on bilingualism and cognitive development. Several areas where psychologists may provide valuable insights into the process of becoming bilingual are discussed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Guntermann, Gail – 1981
Major factors influencing goals and outcomes of foreign language education are reviewed in order to identify a common core of goals. Alternative approaches to specifying outcomes are discussed and sample lists of outcomes for three levels of study are presented. The review of the main influences on the educational scene during the past decade…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Interrelationships
Pike, Ruth – 1976
Sixty-five grade 5-6 children were tested on a verbal recall task involving material of varying semantic and syntactic content. There was no difference between best and poorest readers in their performance on random lists of words, but there were clear differences on meaningful sentences and on syntactically well-formed but semantically anomalous…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Elementary Education, English
Kirby, John – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1996
A discussion of the translation process focuses on inferencing strategy, using attributes and contexts that are familiar in recognizing or making sense of what is unfamiliar in a text. Examples drawn from Belgian translation student work are used to illustrate this principle in operation, at several levels of difficulty. The examples come from…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Dorr, Roberta E. – 1999
A study investigated the degree to which the pronunciation of English words in the child's home environment affected the acquisition or discrimination of phonological and orthographic correspondences of standard written English. Subjects were low-socioeconomic-status, inner-city African American kindergarten, first-, and second-grade students, who…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Class Activities, English
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Hooper, Stephen R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Zeisel, Susan A.; Poe, Michele – Behavioral Disorders, 2003
The authors examined (a) the extent to which kindergarten estimates of core language functions predicted teacher ratings of behavior problems in each of the child's first 4 years of elementary school and (b) the ability of core language measures to predict concurrent behavior problems at each of the early elementary school grades studied.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Children, Behavior Problems, Teacher Evaluation
Vignola, Marie-Josee – 1995
The study described here attempted to shed light on decision-making during first language (English) and second language (French) writing processes of French immersion program graduates. It also replicated part of a previous study on the role of first language (L1) writing skills and second language (L2) competence when writing in L2. A think-aloud…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making, English, Foreign Countries
Stoltzfus, Allen – 1997
This brief report describes the Rosetta Stone Language Library, a set of multimedia second language instructional materials. These materials emphasize comprehension of spoken language as the first step to acquiring fluency, sometimes referred to as the "comprehension approach" or "natural approach." The materials are designed…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Feedback, Learning Theories
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