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Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1977
This study investigated a child's development of the concept that a word is a unit used to express meaning. Thirty children, selected at random from grades one through six, were chosen from a school where no exclusive method of teaching reading was used. Each child participated in two tasks. First, a list of nouns was presented in written form and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Concept Formation, Context Clues
Stevens, Jeanne – Engl in Educ, 1970
Explains techniques used to help students comprehend concepts mentioned in their reading materials. (SW)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Concept Formation, English Instruction, Language Acquisition
Maguire, Thomas O.; And Others – 1974
To determine if children could discriminate among the 24 ways in which words possess meaning (logico-semantic relationships) defined by Evanechko and to see if this ability changed over time, 570 fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders were presented the task of sorting decks of cards containing examples of the 24 categories. Although it was not…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
Hall, Vernon C. – 1969
Clarification of one aspect of Jensen's model of cognitive abilities provided the impetus for this study. Jensen found that sentence construction as a mediator facilitated learning of paired associates, except when kindergarteners were used as subjects. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether the failure of the mediators to…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Child Language, Cognitive Ability