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Peer reviewedHooper, Peggy P.; Powell, Evan R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Tests
Download full textWartella, Alisa Berger; Williams, Diane – 1982
The paper examines aspects involved in providing an accurate evaluation of speech and language of culturally different preschool children. Dialectical differences of Spanish and Black English speakers are detailed. Culturally based nonverbal behaviors and situational factors, including touching behavior and eye contact, are considered. Cultural…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Cultural Differences, Informal Assessment
BROZ, JAMES, JR.; HAYES, ALFRED S. – 1966
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS COMPILED BY THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS FOR TEACHERS OF READING IS PRESENTED. THE MATERIALS ARE LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY IN THREE GROUPS--PART 1, 1942-66, GENERAL REFERENCES REFLECTING THE THINKING OF LINGUISTS ABOUT LANGUAGE, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Shaffer, Stuart M. – 1969
Developing test instruments for the Pattern Drills Program in the Pittsburg Public Schools has convinced the writer that the more test development activities and the teaching process reinforce each other, the stronger the program is. The Pattern Drills Program aims to develop bidialectism in non-standard English speakers by teaching standard…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Auditory Discrimination, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language)
Roberts, Elsa – 1970
Four tests--PPVT, ITPA, MRT, WPPSI--commonly used to measure language development in young children are evaluated by four criteria: (1) what development aspects do they claim to tap; (2) what do they actually tap; (3) what linguistic knowledge is presupposed; (4) what special problems face a non-standard English speaker. These tests are considered…
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Programs
Levine, Madlyn A.; Hanes, Michael L. – 1976
This study investigated the relationship between dialect usage and performance on four language tasks designed to reflect features developmental in nature: articulation, grammatical closure, auditory discrimination, and sentence comprehension. Predictor and criterion language tasks were administered to 90 kindergarten, first-, and second-grade…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comprehension, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education
Horvath, Barbara – 1975
The research reported in this paper is concerned with three questions. Are the processes of language development complete by the time children begin school? What is the order of the emergence of control of grammatical rules? And is that order similar for first and second language learners? The data used in the analysis come from a project centered…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Children, Elementary Education
