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Ney, James W. – 1981
Generalizations regarding languages should be presented to students to aid them in mastering the surface forms they encounter. Hoffmen's analysis of modals postulates a root meaning and an epistemic meaning for modals and predicts that the root interpretation is generally excluded by the progressive and perfect tenses. This system may form the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Morphology (Languages), Negative Forms (Language)
Download full textJenkins, Joseph R.; And Others – 1978
The effects of vocabulary instruction on word knowledge and reading comprehension were assessed in three experiments. In experiment one, employing 12 "average" fourth grade readers, and experiment two, employing six learning disabled intermediate level students, word synonyms were taught to pairs of students on three consecutive days.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Bryan, Tanis – 1978
The presentation reviews the empirical data concerning the existence and types of language problems experienced by learning disabled (LD) and reading disabled (RD) children. An introductory section provides criteria for classification as LD in research samples and a discussion of research data sources in the field of language assessment. Section…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities
Benton, Camille L. – 1979
The semantic differential ratings of ten typefaces given by a group of 24 subjects were factor analyzed to discover what connotative meanings laypeople applied to typefaces and how these meanings compared with those of professional typographers. The typefaces, five from general categories and five from novelty categories of display typefaces, were…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Graphic Arts, Journalism, Layout (Publications)
Baron, Michael – 1978
Recognizing the widespread use of journal keeping, divergent views of the process, and the dearth of formal attempts to study this process, this study determined the cumulative (post-28 days) and immediate (daily) effects of unstructured (journal) and structured (bipolar checklist) self-evaluative writing upon self-evaluation and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Diaries
Casby, Michael W. – 1979
Nonsense forms with nonsense labels were utilized in a match to sample task to observe whether children's word extensions are based on static form characteristics or on functional action characteristics. The stimuli consisted of: (1) a single model object which performed an action; (2) a selection array consisting of one object similar in form to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Discrimination Learning
Fitzgerald, Thomas P.; Clark, Richard M. – 1978
The reactions of participants to the presentation sessions of a staff development training program were assessed using participant questionnaires and non-verbal metabehavior estimates of participant attitudes. Fifty reading specialists and administrators participated in a two-session workshop dealing with reading material and methods. Each session…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Body Language, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
POSTMAN, NEIL; WEINGARTNER, CHARLES – 1967
THIS HANDBOOK OF MODERN LINGUISTICS HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THE ADULT LAYMAN OR TEACHER WHO NEEDS A GENERAL BACKGROUND IN LINGUISTICS AS WELL AS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE "LINGUISTIC APPROACH" AS IT IS BEING INTRODUCED IN ENGLISH TEACHING TODAY. THE AUTHORS HAVE TAKEN THE STAND THAT LINGUISTICS IS HERE TO STAY--ALONG WITH THE "NEW…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Grammar
Morgan, Argiro Louchis – 1981
A study investigated the separate and combined effects of the syntactic organization of the sentence, the contextual framework in which a message is embedded, and the readers' past experiences on children's inferential reading comprehension of pragmatic cause/effect statements. The subjects, 144 fourth grade students, were asked to specify the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4
Kay, Paul – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to present systematically some facts regarding interdialectal constant and varying features of the semantics of English kinship terminology. The data present some problems for current views of grammar and of linguistic variation. Regarding the former, it is not clear what sort of "rule," what place in…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, English, Folk Culture, Language Research
Wiseman, Richard L.; Davison, Mark L. – 1979
A total of 79 college students participated in an investigation designed to clarify the function of conversational closings. Multidimensional scaling was used to derive a three-dimensional representation of the semantic meaning conveyed by 20 frequently used conversational closings. Regression analyses of the scaling solution suggested that the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Content Analysis, Educational Research, Higher Education
Lucas, Ann – 1979
The purpose of this study was to determine educational goals and values held by students and their teachers, incongruencies that exist between these perceptions, and differences between teachers' stated value priorities and their students' observations of actual behavior. The subjects of the study were selected twelfth-grade students and their…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Educational Objectives, Psychological Patterns, Self Concept
CORBIN, RICHARD – 1954
DEPENDENCE UPON SYMBOLS HAS LONG BEEN THE MARK OF CIVILIZED MAN. ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY OF US HAVE LITTLE TROUBLE IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING THE REFERENTS OF PHYSICAL SYMBOLS, WE ARE LESS SURE WHEN DEALING WITH THE MORE SUBTLE TYPE OF SYMBOLS CALLED WORDS. WE KNOW THAT A WORD'S MEANING MAY VARY ACCORDING TO SPEAKER, WRITER, LISTENER, READER, OR…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), English, English Instruction
Chao, Y.R. – 1968
The processes involved in "borrowing" words and structures between languages and among dialects are discussed and illustrated. Interlingual borrowings between Chinese and other languages have taken place in several different ways. Sometimes the sounds of the foreign word are imitated using the sounds of the borrowing language ("leidar" for 'radar'…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Diachronic Linguistics
Milligan, Frank Goeffrey – 1968
Studied were a science oriented semantic differential instrument and its potential as a predictor of academic achievement in community college science courses. The sample consisted of 834 freshmen from two New York community colleges. A multiple correlation technique for assessing the instruments potential as a predictor was employed. Variables…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, College Freshmen, College Science
