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Shapiro, Theodore; And Others – Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1974
A schizophrenic boy was studied longitudinally with regard to language behavior and hierarchic integration during 13 10-minute interviews, at 3-month intervals commencing at age 3 1/2 years and ending at 7 years of age. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Development, Young Children, Emotional Disturbances
Lee, Grace E. – 1977
This paper discusses the importance of bilingual-bicultural programs--which provide instruction in the student's native language and culture and in the American language and culture--in helping Asian-American students to succeed in the dominant culture. Teachers in such programs need to be sensitive to students' home environment, educational…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cross Cultural Training
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Hart, N.W.M. – 1976
Children's mastery of reading skills would be facilitated if reading programs capitalized on children's already-developed oral language competence. Barriers against "reading for meaning" exist when the cues used for predicting in oral language are not present in the written language which confronts children; yet anaylses of four reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
Hoar, Nancy – 1977
The ability to produce and recognize paraphrases is necessary for a child's linguistic development. The purpose of this paper is to explain how three basic sentence types interact with age in determining the strategy a child uses in producing paraphrases. Three paraphrase strategies considered are lexical substitution, syntactic rearrangement, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Mitchell, Maxine R., Comp.; And Others – 1977
This teaching guide, developed by the Los Angeles (California) Unified School District, focuses on the multicultural characteristics of American society. In the first section, background information is provided about American Indians, black, Asian, and Hispanic Americans, and white Americans (non-Hispanic) of various ethnic groups. Also examined…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism
Belme, Jillian; Gray, Anne – 1980
A language evaluation instrument was devised to assess the accuracy of program implementation by teachers of four Australian preschool programs. The Teacher Language Instrument (TLI) categorizes each verbal episode of a teaching interchange for both mode and function. Five general mode categories of teacher language behavior--statements,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Brazil, David; And Others – 1980
This account of the intonation of English is part of ongoing research at the University of Birmingham, England. It attempts to take account of how intonation contributes to the communicative value of an act of speech. An introductory chapter provides a short discussion of some crucial terms: pitch, loudness, stress, rhythm, and tone unit. The…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Intonation
Irvine, Judith T. – 1978
This paper considers a distinction frequently used in sociolinguistics and ethnography of speaking to describe speech events: their formality or informality. Three principle meanings of "formality" found in the literature concern whether the formality relates to properties of a communicative code, properties of the social setting in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Gentner, Dedre – 1977
The work described in this paper was undertaken to study children's ability to preserve semantic relations during analogical mappings. Two experiments are described based on the understanding that metaphors and analogies are mappings from one semantic region (the domain of origin) to another (the range of application), which convey the idea that…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
de Beaugrande, Robert – 1977
A "generative stylistics" approach to writing presents usable, conscious standards for the production, arrangement, and rearrangement of written discourse thereby teaching students how to make appropriate decisions about language usage. Based on research studies that indicate the dependence of the writing process on the decision making…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Criteria, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis
Ozgener, Esen Sever – 1970
This multiple case study investigated the relationship between kindergarten teachers' questions and children's responses. The classroom discussions of 4 groups of children and their teachers (all middle income level) were taped and classified into five different question and response categories. Results indicated that: (1) some teachers ask more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Ray, George B. – 1980
A study sought to determine what relationships existed between speech rate, speech pitch variation, speech loudness, and the personality assessments made by listeners. The subjects, 214 undergraduate speech communication students, listened to one of eight tape recordings made by a male speaker to represent all the combinations of the three…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Black, Ruth W. – 1979
The crib talk reported here of a 2;2-2;4-year-old boy replicates the phenomenon of crib talk reported in previous studies by other investigators. This study adds a corpus of mother-child interaction (MCI) and tests one aspect of the hypothesis that crib talk may enhance production of linguistic forms at a later date. Transcripts of monologues were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing
SLAGER, WILLIAM R.; AND OTHERS – 1962
"AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL" IS THE FIRST OF A SIX-VOLUME ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES DESIGNED PRIMARILY FOR INTERMEDIATE AND SECONDARY OR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL STUDENTS OVERSEAS (E.G., FOR STUDENTS AGE 10 YEARS AND OLDER). THE MATERIAL AND PRESENTATION ARE STRUCTURALLY CONTROLLED AND GRADED, WITH EMPHASIS IN THIS VOLUME ON PATTERN PRACTICE. BASIC…
Descriptors: Audiodisc Recordings, Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
WYATT, NITA M. – 1965
SEX DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT RESULTING FROM USE OF TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO TEACHING READING IN THE FIRST GRADE WERE STUDIED. A STANDARD BASAL READER APPROACH WAS USED WITH READING GROUPS DIVIDED BY SEX AS WELL AS ABILITY. PACE AND EMPHASIS OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE BOYS WAS ADAPTED TO SUIT THEIR NEEDS. A LINGUISTIC APPROACH ORGANIZED TO…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Gains, Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis
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