The spontaneous speech of a six-year-old bilingual child was analyzed for this study. The child has lived in the United States and English is her primary language but her parents speak only French in the home and she has spent several months in France during three visits there. The data used in this study were collected in the child's home by her…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers ideas on using the daily newspaper to teach vocabulary and writing to students on any level. Suggestions include using a "word of the week" to teach word meanings, uses, and roots as well as how words can be used in a sentence; listing vocabulary words on bulletin…

This experiment was designed to investigate the relative value of three sources of cue (graphic stimulus only, graphic stimulus plus a picture cue, and graphic stimulus plus a context cue) in combination with two list types (minimal and maximal contrast) as a means of facilitating the acquisition of initial reading vocabulary. The subjects, 137…

Kindergarten Ss were assigned to three treatments. Group I learned words that were self-selected; Group II learned words selected by children in Group I, and Group III learned words common to the vocabulary of young children. Group I Ss scored significantly higher than the control group Ss, supporting the Ashton-Warner hypothesis. Group I ratings…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO ESTABLISH CERTAIN BASE RATES IN LANGUAGE USAGE OF CHILDREN AND TO INVESTIGATE THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE. SPECIFICALLY THE STUDY WAS AIMED AT DISCOVERING WHETHER THE FINDINGS OF G.K. ZIPF (1965) HELD FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE OF CHILDREN AND WHETHER AGE DIFFERENCES INFLUENCED THE RELATIONSHIP OF VARIETY AND FREQUENCY OF WORD…

THE DOCUMENT CONTAINS TWO SPEECHES--ONE ON TEACHING ENGLISH TO INDIAN STUDENTS AND THE OTHER ON A TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING SCIENCE. THE FIRST DISCUSSES THE PHONOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LEARNING THEORIES, VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT, AND INDIAN STUDENTS' LANGUAGE FLUENCY. THE SECOND DISCUSSES VOCABULARY PROBLEMS INVOLVED WITH TEACHING SCIENCE TO…

No language acquisition theory has yet proved to be the correct one.

Explains various types of context clues to aid students in understanding vocabulary in texts. (MKM)

The effects of intraclass peer tutoring on vocabulary development were studied in primary level learning disabled students. (DLS)

The study sought to determine if students (40 seventh-graders) who were given specific instruction in art vocabulary would receive significantly greater art project evaluations as compared to students receiving no such instruction. Results revealed significantly greater scores among students who had received instruction in art vocabulary. (JC)

Presents a technique designed to help most readers' vocabulary grow with their every day reading. (JM)

The recent rapid expansion in postsecondary educational opportunities for the deaf has led to the need for a structured approach to the standardization and development of technical sign vocabulary. (Author)

Points out the superior efficiency and effectiveness of generative techniques of vocabulary development over nongenerative techniques and gives examples of both types. Generative techniques, for approaching unfamiliar words through knowledge of other words, include use of synonymy and antonymy and of external and internal context clues. (BF)

Discusses a five-week summer reading program for 44 "high risk" children who had completed the first through the fifth grades in which cloze was used as the culminating language arts activity. (JM)

Describes vocabulary development in a college reading program that involves students writing and singing lyrics to the tune of "Puttin' on the Ritz." Discusses the theory behind this practice, specifically how rhyme and rhythm aid recall. (SRT)