This document discusses, briefly, the importance of preschool language learning and how such learning can be facilitated. In the main, the document sets out three lists for teachers concerning language instruction to preschoolers. List one presents the "age of articulatory efficiency of 23 consonant sounds." Five ages, from 3 to 7 …

This booklet contains four articles that discuss factors influencing language growth. The first, "The Child's Equipment for Language Growth" by Charlotte Wells, examines what the child needs for language learning, how the child uses his equipment for language growth, and what school factors facilitate the child's use of his equipment for language…

Changes necessary for bilingual education to benefit everyone are discussed. (NQ)

When a child uses his words and his ideas in learning to read, he also assists in the normal integration of his personality. Starting with a method of language experience developed by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, the author, a reading consultant, describes a language experience-reading program which utilizes the student's own curiosity and interests. (RK)

The introductory article in an issue devoted to songs as a teaching device. The article deals with English and American rock, folk and pop music. It makes the point that learning a language is also learning the culture of the people who speak the language. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A small-scale study of the cultural discourse of foreign language texts indicated that the two main practices of current texts, introductory dialog and cultural immersion, could delay or even prevent the development of appropriate cultural schemata. (CB)

Presents a proposal to bring literature into the basic program of instruction and make it a meaningful component of the learning process. A model lesson describes how literary texts can be perceived and studied as performances of a language. (CB)

To study growth in literacy, the literacy events of six preschool children, in which half the enrollees were Head Start children and the other half were tuition students, were videotaped daily for five months. Analysis of the data (including pre- and post-tests) indicated that all six grew in interest and knowledge of written language.…

Expresses the belief that young children need poetry as a means of experimenting with language and as training for the later exploration of literature. (AS)

Discusses the positive aspects of a program that allows students to provide instruction for one another in their native languages and explains that children may absorb a number of facts from such instruction. (DF)

Outlines writing/reading experiences in projects that stretch conceptual understanding and illustrates ways to relate language experiences to children's everyday experiences. (CI)

Believes that the development of a scientific vocabulary and scientific skills of inquiry and interpretation are basic skills to which all science students should be exposed. (CP)

Changes in language teaching techniques, curriculum enrichment, and inservice teacher education can lead to schools which are more functional in the education of the Mexican-American child. (DM)

Asserting that language enrichment programs are often weakened by the assumption that standard English is necessary for the development of abstract thought, the author discusses problems of educational planning and policy with regard to low-income youth and specifies four areas in which further research must be carried out. (FWB)

Nineteen first grade children were randomly assigned to two experimental reading instruction conditions lasting 12 weeks. Both conditions used the language experience approach to teaching beginning language. In the experimental stage, the language experience approach was augmented by a total of six hours of individualized word-bank activities.…