Revised version of a doctoral dissertation (Princeton University), partially subsidized by a grant from the Research Council of the University of North Carolina. (VM)

Preprint from a forthcoming pamphlet of the National Conference on Research in English. (Editor/SW)

A preprint from a forthcoming pamphlet of the National Conference on Research in English. (Editor/SW)

Presents an Ohio experiment in which 30 kindergartners and 76 first graders, all English speakers, attempt to learn to produce three non-English phones. Bibliography. (MB)

Advocates a method of teaching writing which leads students to discover the rules of written English so that they can then transform a string of grammatical sentences into a coherent discourse. Sample lessons included. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Words artificially isolated from 12 parents' speech to their children aged 1;10-3;0 were significantly less intelligible to adult listeners than words originally spoken to an adult. While parents did not adjust the clarity of words, their speech was more redundant in anticipation of the children's comprehension. Research implications are…

Three- and four-year-old children were tested in their comprehension of locative prepositions. Results showed that those prepositions characterized as positive were comprehended less well than their ostensibly negative counterparts, contrary to theoretical predictions. An explanatory hypothesis concerning children's developing spatial…

This paper analyzes: (1) the task of learning to read, in the context of cognitive and linguistic tools a child has at his/her disposal; (2) how these tools change with further development and experience; and (3) how teachers can foster this development and growth. Eight research-based recommendations for classroom teaching are given. (PP)

A brief history of Chinese developmental psychology is given, and current main research projects are highlighted. (Author/MP)

Examined the relationship between physiographic gestures and speech in seven-year-olds using data from classroom interviews. Found that an abundance of physiographic gestures were used in conversations, but they were not randomly distributed. Describing pictures and activities produced many gestures, while storytelling produced almost none.…