Reports an experimental investigation of the influence of linguistic factors on linguistic performance. The factors studied were interpretive complexity and surface length. Results show an interaction between types of linguistic complexity and type of linguistic performance. (Author/SED)

Documents how a preschool child learns to read. Identifies what teachers need to know if they are to continue the reader's own discoveries and delight in language. (EL)

Contains annotations describing research conducted in the following areas: writing (contexts, status surveys, instruction, processes, text analysis, assessment, rhetoric, writing and learning), language (processing, development, interrelationships, language and schooling), literature, and teacher education. (HOD)

Discusses ways in which the regular classroom teacher can design language development programs for limited-English-speaking children. (HTH)

Argues that for a child to respond to a teacher, whether by reading, talking, writing, constructing a village, or painting a drama backdrop, the child must relate, remember, relearn, monitor, problem-solve, and do all those other mental activities that help humans adapt and create new solutions. (HOD)

Investigates second grade children's ability to understand the use of deictic terms (devices in language that convey information about the communicative situation) in three types of tasks: oral language, written language, and picture selection, and concludes that the difficulty of a word with deictic content depends largely upon the discourse…

Describes several storytelling activities that allow children to develop their speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills. (FL)

Describes the pioneering work in England of Susan and Nathan Isaacs in child development and educational psychology and argues that their work provides a remarkably contemporary analysis of the origin and function of human language. (Author/RDN)

Describes research studies that relate to writing instruction, writing processes, language development, literature, and English teacher education. (HOD)

Provides annotations of research studies that focus on writing (contexts, status surveys, instruction, processes, assessment, and so forth), language (processing, development, interrelationships), literature, and teacher education. (HOD)

Concludes that an integrated language-reading treatment approach was effective in improving the reading performance of second-grade children with possible listening comprehension problems and language deficiencies. (FL)

Tests the universality hypothesis of language acquisition by asking young monolingual English and Japanese children to verify true affirmatives, false affirmatives, false negatives, and true negatives. The hypothesis was not supported in the case of Japanese-speaking children. A theory of cross-linguistic language acquisition is proposed.…

Hypothesizes that the amount of verbal interaction with caregivers would be a salient index of center quality, in that it would be a particularly important determinant of language skill. Three sets of measures were used to assess quality of the day care environment: children's language development, family background, and home…

Motivating variables in the verbal interaction between mother and young child, which may influence the acquisition of the child's verbal skills, were investigated. Previous hypotheses were surveyed and data on verbal interactions of 29 mother-child pairs were presented. (Author/MS)

This study explored the attitudes of high school teachers of Spanish as a foreign language regarding the following: the use of Spanish, teaching Spanish as a heritage language to Hispanic students, the role of English in the United States, and the use of English at school or home. Participants were teachers of Spanish in three Louisiana school…