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Fairbairn, Kerry – 1982
This report discusses issues having a major impact on "Study Talk," the Queensland component of an Australian language development project. After first outlining the procedures and organizational structures used to set up and conduct "Study Talk," the report briefly describes methods used to evaluate project operations and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Improvement, Language Acquisition
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Rice, G. Elizabeth – 1983
A study examined how the text variables of organizational plan (top-level structure), emphasis plan (implemented through signalling devices), and presence of details influenced the selection of reading strategies by adults. Subjects--149 young, middle aged, and older expert readers--read and recalled in writing two expository prose passages of 388…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Middle Aged Adults
Sondak, Norman E.; And Others – 1988
A discussion of expert systems, computer programs designed to simulate human reasoning and expertise, begins with the assumption that few business educators understand the impact that expert systems will have on international business. The fundamental principles of the design and development of expert systems in business are outlined, with special…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Processing, English, Expert Systems
Berkowitz, Diana; Watkins-Goffman, Linda – 1988
The process approach to writing instruction views learning to write as a discovery process in which the writer makes connections beyond the text. Central to this process is revision, the refinement and development of the discoveries made. This approach appears to be incompatible with the grammar-based approach traditionally used in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Quinn, Karen B.; Matsuhashi, Ann – 1985
A case study investigated how writers use information from reading for writing. Specifically, it examined what happens when writers are asked to read about an unfamiliar topic and then use that information to write an argument. A student was requested to complete four tasks that represented stages one might go through to write an argumentative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Language Processing
Sigurjonsdottir, Sigridur; And Others – 1988
An experimental study of the interpretation of lexical anaphors and pronouns by Icelandic-speaking children is reported. The standard binding theory of English is reviewed, and problems in the application of the theory to Icelandic, which has long-distance antecedents, are discussed. A parameterized binding theory constructed to account for the…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
Rondal, Jean A.; And Others – 1986
Two experiments examined the process of acquisition of sentence structure in the passive voice among young children. The subjects were several hundred monolingual French-speaking children aged 4-11 in schools in Liege, Belgium. The two experiments used different subject groups. In the first experiment, the children were required to interpret…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, French
Harvey, T. Edward – 1981
Standard assumptions and teaching strategies must be discarded when working with international students on the university level. The problems faced by international students are exacerbated by archaic curriculum designs for reading courses. Students have often been expected to negotiate literary masterworks after only three semesters in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
Tzeng, Ovid J. L.; And Others – 1983
This final report on the relationship between orthographic characteristics and reading behavior consists of five chapters. The first chapter examines writing in its variety of forms in different cultures, noting that such differences can provide important clues to how the brain processes visual information. The second chapter addresses the issue…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Deafness, Language Processing, Neurolinguistics
Lewis, Janice – 1985
While reading and writing are both language processes and a natural relationship between the two could be assumed, they have generally been studied and taught separately--one as a production process and the other as a reception process. There has recently been increased interest in the relationship in the education community. The source of this…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Processing, Learning Processes
DeFord, Diane E. – 1984
As an introducation to a symposium on curricular innovation, a sociolinguistic perspective is used to tie together presentations to follow on collaborative and deliberative processes in pedagogy, research, and evaluation in school settings. Collaboration and deliberation, as processes, are bound by the same constraints and potentials inherent in…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cooperation, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development
Mental Chronometry during Fixations in Reading: Processing Orthographic Characteristics of the Text.
Reddix, Michael D.; And Others – 1985
Thirty-six college students read a portion of a contemporary novel presented on a cathode ray tube while their eye movements were being monitored and recorded in an effort to determine how soon after the onset of a fixation during reading the mind begins to deal with characteristics of the language being perceived. The passage contained a total of…
Descriptors: College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Higher Education
Seesholtz, Melvin C. – 1981
Much of the work being done in composition concerns language--an increased awareness and desire to know what it is, how it works, and how people use it to create themselves and their world. The need to review and to teach the basics is obvious, but to present grammar, punctuation, and diction--the building blocks of language that must be…
Descriptors: Advertising, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing
Piper, David – 1981
This study examined the effects of certain contextual linguistic variables on the logical performance of subjects in grades 4, 6, and 12 of selected British Columbia schools as well as some theoretical problems underlying assessment of the development of logical abilities. The task consisted of 27 syllogistic problems based upon the information…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Child Language, Children
Garrett, Roger L. – 1981
A study explored whether cues given in advance of messages presented through noise were effective for increasing comprehension. Specifically, the study examined whether (1) relevant cues increased overall listening accuracy and (2) irrelevant cues impaired listening by introducing distortions into the processing of messages or simply decreased the…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, College Students, Communication Research