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)

Discusses the contradictions found in recommendations for direction instruction or informal math language development, and some suggestions for practical resolution of disagreements, to enable school reading specialists to provide both background and practical help to classroom instructors teaching math. (HTH)

Reviews evidence supporting the Contrastive Hypothesis, revealing little support for the hypothesis that young children automatically assume that every two words in their lexicons contrast. Theoretical problems with the positions that children assign words to semantic fields as they are acquiring them and that innovations are used to fill lexical…

Describes a study that investigates the order of acquisition of case-marked pronouns in Hebrew among 105 children between two and five years of age. Results indicate that children begin using case-marked pronouns as early as age two and that the stage of morphological development parallels that of English-speaking children. (SED)

Three brief articles present ideas for classroom language instruction, including a beginner's lesson in imperatives using advertisements, an exercise in vocabulary related to royalty, and a group of information-seeking games. A fourth article, one of an ongoing series, presents 39 definitions of terms related to language instruction. (MSE)