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Download full textNational Advisory Council on Indian Education, Washington, DC. – 1990
This report summarizes two joint sessions held by the Indian Nations At Risk Task Force and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education to hear testimony on issues in Native American early childhood education. Issues and problems fell into the areas of: (1) Head Start, its funding problems, and its relationship to public and Bureau of Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Ancillary School Services, Day Care
Ninio, Anat – 1991
A study on children's speech is prefaced by an extensive theoretical discussion. An attempt to construct a taxonomy that captured psychologically real, discrete types of communicative acts in mother-child interactions was based on the insight that verbal utterances are social acts that are meaningful in particular social situations. The taxonomy…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Context Effect, Foreign Countries
Ting-Toomey, Stella, Ed.; Korzenny, Felipe, Ed. – International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 1989
Dealing with the relationships among language, communication, and culture, the 12 papers in this collection are divided into three parts. The first part deals with the critical issues related to language acquisition, context, and cognition. The second part presents an array of perspectives in analyzing the role of language in comparative…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Studies
Minami, Masahiko – 1993
The form of Japanese children's personal narratives is distinctly different from that of English-speaking children. Despite follow-up questions that encouraged them to talk about one personal narrative at length, Japanese children spoke succinctly about collections of experiences rather than elaborating on any one experience. Conversations between…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, Cross Cultural Studies
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1993
This report documents the activities undertaken to evaluate the federally sponsored prekindergarten program for educationally disadvantaged preschoolers conducted by the Saginaw, Michigan school district. This program, funded by Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, was serving 502 children at the beginning of the 1993…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Glazer, Susan Mandel; Burke, Eileen M. – 1994
This book combines a holistic approach to language learning with a developmental point of view, including teaching strategies appropriate for each age and stage of development. The book looks at children's literature and how it is used as the thrust for the development of oral language, reading, and early writing. The book includes: discussion of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Child Development, Childrens Literature
Meehan, Teresa M. – 1993
This paper considers etiological factors associated with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), presents a critical review of current findings on language deficits and FAS, and proposes a direction for future research which takes into account the semiotic aspects of language development. Criteria for establishing FAS as well as other typical…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Developmental Stages, Etiology, Evaluation Methods
Cazden, Courtney B. – 1993
This paper describes similarities between the areas of second language (L2) teacher education and mother tongue (MT) literacy teacher education: similarity of definition, similarity of history, and similarity of a current pedagogical issue (immersion is necessary but not sufficient). Practitioners in both fields need to modulate the sharp polarity…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Students, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Fowler, Carol A., Ed. – 1993
One of a series of quarterly reports, this publication contains 11 articles which report the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instruments for its investigation, and practical applications. Articles in the publication are: "Evidence of Flexible Coding in Visual Word Recognition" (Kenneth R. Pugh and others);…
Descriptors: Adults, Chinese, Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1993
The journal IDEAL is intended as a forum for research into the acquisiton and teaching of English as a Second Language. Volume 4 contains the following articles: "Pragmatics and Reading in a Second Language" (Patricia L. Carrell); "English Across Cultures: Native English Speaker in the Third World" (P.B. Nayar); "Pragmatic…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Broadcast Television, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics
Ching, Jann Pataray – 1993
A first grader of Vietnamese descent (recently arrived in Hawaii from China) participated in the class activities in a 6-week summer course that focused on language arts and mathematics but only found his "voice" and the acceptance of his peers through art activities. The course included many language arts activities such as silent…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Communication Skills
Paul, Peter V. – 1994
Research has demonstrated that the acquisition of English literacy skills is extremely difficult for many deaf students, that is, students with severe to profound hearing impairments. As a result, there has been a call for the development of bilingual and English-as-a-second-language programs for this population. This research review addresses…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Deafness, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
Kamii, Constance, Ed.; And Others – 1991
The purpose of this book is to consider early literacy education and whole language from the perspective of constructivist theory (which states that human beings acquire knowledge by building it from the inside in interaction with the environment) and research. More specifically, the book intends to show that the whole language movement is part of…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Strong, Carol J.; Clark, Thomas C. – 1990
This program evaluation report presents information on Project SKI*HI, a home-based program for infants and young children with hearing impairments and their families. The program's major goals are early identification of hearing-impaired infants and a home program to facilitate child development. A parent advisor makes weekly home visits to each…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Early Intervention, Handicap Identification
Johnston, Peter H.; And Others – 1990
A study analyzed how teachers evaluate and keep track of students' literacy development, particularly as it relates to the reading of literature. Fifty-one teachers from a range of school contexts were interviewed for descriptions of students' literacy development, teachers' knowledge of literature, classroom literacy teaching practice and…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
