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Kim, Byong Won, Ed. – 1984
Focusing on instruction in the English language arts by students for whom English is a second language, this yearbook contains the papers from the precongress institute, "Reading English in Asia," of the tenth International Reading Association World Congress on Reading--held in Hong Kong in 1984. Part 1 contains "Linguistic Theories and L2…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Cultural Context
Smith, Frank – 1983
Viewing literacy as the ability to make use of all available possibilities of written language, the essays in this collection deal with a broad range of literacy related topics and issues. Titles of the 13 essays, written over a 10-year period, are as follows: (1) "The Politics of Ignorance"; (2) "Twelve Easy Ways to Make Learning to Read…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Language Acquisition
Bowers, P. G.; And Others – 1984
A study investigated whether a visual selective attention deficit with its presumed basis in slow visual processing referred to the same phonological recoding deficit, or whether they were two independent sources of reading disability. Subjects were children aged 7 to 15 referred to a university clinic (the Waterloo Child Assessment…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Rosecky, Marion – 1982
The Pennsylvania Comprehensive Reading/Communication Arts Plan (PCRP) is a language arts curriculum providing four critical experiences that all students need in order to become competent in reading, writing, listening, and speaking: responding to literature, sustained silent reading, oral and written composing, and investigating and mastering…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Language Arts, Language Processing
Staton, Jana; And Others – 1982
This is the first of two related documents reporting a study that analyzed the text of 26 student-teacher dialogue journals from a sixth grade class as a developmental link between students' natural competence in oral conversation and their developing competence in written language. The first section of the report discusses (1) the purpose of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialogs (Language), Elementary School Students, Grade 6
de Lorenzo, Kathryn Brue – 1980
This study investigates whether Mexican Americans have a different cerebral specialization for native language than for second language as measured by visual shift. The possibility of a different cerebral arrangement for each language has implications for educators. The relation between cerebral arrangement and cognitive style entails…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cerebral Dominance
Maguire, Mary H. – 1978
A study investigated whether there were commonalities of cue patterns in six selected tenth grade students' reading and writing that could be discovered from each student's respective language use and perception of the two distinct but interrelated processes. Specifically, the study explored how two above-average readers, two average readers, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 10, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Deemer, Holly Beth – 1978
Certain aspects of the reading process have suggested that second language reading skills are determined to some extent by native language reading skills. Some of this research is reviewed here and an experiment is described in which the reading skills in Spanish and English of three groups of Spanish speakers learning English are compared.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Processing, Language Research
Druian, M. Gregory – 1978
In this paper, several issues related to the problem of transfer of training are set forth. The technique of frame analysis, developed by Erving Goffman, is presented as a way of bringing coherence to the formulation of problems related to transfer of training. Key concepts in Goffman's argument are explained, showing how those concepts pertain to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Context Clues
Vihman, Marilyn May – 1976
A discussion of word acquisition rates and strategies is based upon a 6-month case study of an Estonian-speaking child who gradually and systematically relaxed phonotactic constraints to allow greater complexity in word production. In addition to the cognitive tools of assimilation and accomodation as described by Piaget, the child used a further…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Gonzalez, Andrew – 1979
Philippine students in grades K-6, representing different socioeconomic classes, participated in individual elicitation sessions. Using Pilipino (Tagalog) as the language of elicitation, experimenters used pictorial stimuli to elicit specific structures of English grammar, in order to discover if the subjects had mastered these structures. Only…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Children, Elementary Education
Ioup, Georgette; Kruse, Anna – 1977
Current research on adult second language learning suggests that study is necessary to separate interference variables from intralinguistic variables and to determine the relative difficulty of structures in each group. This research on the acquisition of the English relative clause was specifically designed to test the transfer hypothesis…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Campbell, Cherry; And Others – 1977
Foreigner talk (FT) is the term used to characterize possible adjustments in the speech of a native speaker (NS) when he or she is in conversation with a non-native speaker (NNS). The paper examines conversations between 6 native speakers and 3 non-native speakers and characterizes the speech of the native-speakers involved. The data were…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns
Harding, E. – 1978
This is an investigation of the notion of language for special purposes and a discussion of the topic from the point of view of reading comprehension and its pedagogical implications. The meanings, connotations, and inadequacies of the terms "langue de specialite" and "Language for special purposes" are discussed. A distinction is made between…
Descriptors: French, Higher Education, Language Instruction, Language Processing
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Chimombo, Moira – 1979
This longitudinal study of bilingual language acquisition analyzes the order of acquisition of English grammatical morphemes in a child bilingual in English and Chichewa (a Bantu lanugage of East Central Africa). The order of acquisition obtained is compared to that obtained by Brown (1973) for monolingual English speaking children and that…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
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