This report summarizes information regarding populations, methods, evaluation and instructional materials, analyses, and results from three doctoral dissertations that used the Word Attack component of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development as an instructional and assessment instrument. The first study investigated the assumption that…

Four hundred and forty reading activities, organized in five sections for easy retrieval by the teacher, are contained in this supplementary manual for use in reading courses and learning laboratories. Section 1 presents a rationale for individualized diagnostic-prescriptive reading instruction and procedures for making it possible. Section 2 is…

Elizabeth City State University has established a program concentrating in speech pathology and audiology which is nontraditional in approach. It serves as a support in giving valuable substance and current expertise to those programs already offered in the area of language proficiency. Growing out of the established educational concept that…

Data on the complexity of relative clause formation in children indicate that right embedding precedes central embedding in development. Previous research on the subject argues that configurations where coreferential NP's function as subjects are less complex than configurations where coreferential NP's function as objects. It appears that the…

This paper reviews some of the cognitive and linguistic functions which develop during the period of concrete operational thought (ages 4-9) as defined in Piaget's developmental theory. Discussion centers on the formation of classes and relations and the development of the language associated with these operations. Also discussed are conservation…

The Title I program described in this document focused on the improvement of reading and language skills among educationally disadvantaged children in four elementary schools. Specific objectives included enhanced reading skills, enhanced language skills, and mastery of basic concepts in the areas of food handling, communications, transportation,…

This report is one of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications. "Preliminaries to a Theory of Action with Reference to Vision" attempts to describe how the contents of vision may relate to the process of action. "On the Relationship of Speech…

This publication is an outgrowth of the concern expressed by the National Council of Teachers of English regarding the nature, uses, and misuses of standardized tests, specifically the validity of the subject-matter content of standardized English tests and the relation of the overall purposes of a school's total English program to standardized…

American Sign Language (ASL) is historically related to French Sign Language (FSL) of the early 19th century. A study underway at Gallaudet College is researching the historical development of both languages treating syntax, lexicon and formation. This paper deals with data in the form of still photos collected in France and published in a…

Reported is a study on hypothesis formation related to the possible relationship between skills involved in acquiring language and those in an activity-based science program. The data were analyzed by both a science educator and a linguist for possible correlation between the cognitive ability to formulate good hypotheses and the ability to…

Compared were the maternal linguistic environments of 21 normal (20-32 months old) and 21 Down's syndrome children (3-12 years old) matched for level of language development as assessed by mean length of utterance (MLU). Verbal interaction in two free play home situations was tape recorded. Twenty measures of maternal speech (including sentence…

Participants in a seminar series in second language acquisition held at Harvard University discussed three papers by Dulay and Burt ("Goofing: An Indicator of Children's Second Language Learning Strategies,""Should We Teach Children Syntax?", "Natural Sequences in Child Second Language Acquisition"), and developed…

This article discusses language planning in Israel, and specifically the activities of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Its development from the original Hebrew Language Council is traced, as well as its membership which is made up of leading Hebrew scholars and writers. The aims of the Academy were basically three: (1) to assemble and carry…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of varying the semantic content of active and passive sentences along a dimension of "personalness" on the comprehension of those sentences by preschool age children. The study focuses on a current linguistic controversy dealing with the relative adequacy of syntax-based and…

In the first part of the paper the idea of the cognitive network is developed. The network consists of concepts linked together by relationships which are themselves concepts. Concepts are learned according to simple rules, and the network grows as new concepts are learned. Part II considers the growth and structure of language. The growth of…