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Instructor, 1990
Several reading experts comment on the whole language approach to teaching reading and on the whole language debate. Topics include definitions of whole language, characteristics, justifications, shortcomings, and critiques. (IAH)
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPortes, P. R. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1985
The purpose of this paper is to familiarize readers with Vygotsky's theory on verbal regulation of thinking skills, to describe related research and applications of the theory, and to explore its relevance for researchers, parents, and educators. (MT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education
Wells, Gordon – Highway One, 1985
Discusses the importance of providing opportunities for children to learn through talk with an adult and contains excerpts from transcripts of parent-child and teacher-student conversations. (DF)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Friedman, Sheila – 1985
L. S. Vygotsky's book "Mind in Society" was published more than 50 years ago in Russia, but it is now being recognized as relevant to contemporary research in child development because of the areas of investigation that he suggested. Vygotsky views children as active participants in their own learning and suggests that researchers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Child Psychology
