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Delgado, Gilbert L., Ed. – 1984
Focusing on the Hispanic deaf child, the book begins with an overview which briefly discusses the history, litigation, legislation, and recent trends in bilingual and special education, and the issues regarding minority hearing-impaired children. Next, the status of Hispanics in special education is discussed, followed by reports of a 1979-80…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Deafness, Educational Assessment, Educational History
Kinnison, Lloyd R.; And Others – 1988
A study was conducted of 55 preschool children attending Title XX day care centers in Amarillo, Texas, to investigate the cognitive, language, fine motor, and socioemotional development of the children. Results indicated that the students were below the 50th percentile for their age group norms on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Revised, the…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Day Care
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; Holden, Gary, Ed. – 1987
Presented is a collection of 14 conference papers on various aspects of child language acquisition. Papers and authors include: "Language and Psychological Development" (Jean Berko Gleason); "Regression in the Phonological Development of Two Children" (Ken M. Bleile, J. Bruce Tomblin); "Children's Acquisition of the…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
Stanford Univ., CA. Dept. of Linguistics. – 1986
Papers on child language development include: "Sentence Frame Effects on Children's Category Judgments" (Alison K. Adams); "Color Similarity in Children's Classifications and Extension of Object Labels" (Dare Baldwin); "Situational Properties of Early Verb Meaning" (Pol Cuvelier); "Similarity, Specificity, and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Color, Comparative Analysis
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1981
This handbook was developed to suggest an approach for language development in the elementary school that uses existing curricula and the child's experiences to help students develop the language skills necessary for success in school and society. After an introductory chapter on the theories of language learning and teaching, the guide provides:…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: oral language characteristics of college freshmen; the language development of a modern day "wild child"; children's understanding of relational terms; the relationship of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 49 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relation of cognitive ability and receptive language ability in primary school children; (2) verbal cognition; (3) contextual methods of teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
Hymes, Dell H.; And Others – 1981
Student acquisition of reading and language arts skills was monitored ethnographically in a study of several schools in a largely black setting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fundamental to this extensive study was the development and maintenance of cooperative relationships with the urban schools being investigated. The ethnographic monitoring…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1978
This volume contains six essays on both theory and practical learning techniques for second language learning. In "Towards a Synthesization of Teaching Methodologies for TESOL," James W. Ney discusses synthesizing the audio-lingual approach and the cognitive-code theory of language learning. In "Should We Teach Children…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Development
Medina-Nguyen, Suzanne – 1978
A review of the literature on child language reveals little research on overgeneralization in the speech of the bilingual child. Questions arise regarding (1) the existence of interlingual overgeneralizations, and (2) the possibility that monolingual deviations and bilingual code switching might be forms of overgeneralization. Because a model for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1978
The 28 articles in this collection focus on the theme, "reading for life." The topics covered include the following: language and logic, theories of language development and their implications for teaching the language-disordered child, reading difficulties, developing literacy in the primary grades, peer and cross age tutoring, reading…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Texas State Dept. of Community Affairs, Austin. Office of Early Childhood Development. – 1978
This description of a model curriculum comprises the second part of a series of three documents which together constitute a guide to the training of the Bilingual-Bicultural Child Development Associate (CDA) Trainer. An initial introduction provides an overview of CDA and the curriculum design. The following major areas of concern in replicating…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Newport, Elissa L.; Ashbrook, Elizabeth F. – 1977
This report is a cross-linguistic study that compares the sequence of emergence of semantic relations in English with the sequence of emergence of these relations in the acquisition of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) differs from English in modality (it is a visual-gesture language rather than an auditory-vocal one) and in the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
DILLARD, J.L. – 1967
RECENT RESEARCH ON THE NATURE OF NONSTANDARD ENGLISH DIALECTS HAS INDICATED THAT CERTAIN ARCHAIC SPEECH FORMS ASSOCIATED WITH CREOLE LANGUAGES ARE PRESERVED IN THE SPEECH OF URBAN NEGRO CHILDREN. THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE BELIEVES THAT LANGUAGE PROGRAMS FOR THESE CHILDREN SHOULD BE BASED ON A MORE COMPLETE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THEIR LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Age Groups, Beginning Reading, Black Culture
DELAVAN, FRANK E.; ENGLAND, MORRISON C. – 1966
THE SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT DEVELOPED THREE PROJECTS UNDER THE TITLE "PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR THE EDUCATIONALLY DEPRIVED" WHICH WERE FUNDED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 AND THE CALIFORNIA MCATEER ACT OF 1965. IMPLEMENTED DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER, 1966, THESE THREE PROJECTS WERE (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Centers, Class Average, Compensatory Education
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