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| Elementary English | 4 |
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| Davis, O. L., Jr. | 1 |
| Graves, Barbara W. | 1 |
| McPhail, Augustine | 1 |
| Morgan, Argiro L. | 1 |
| Ruddell, Robert B. | 1 |
| Seifert, Joan G. | 1 |
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McPhail, Augustine – Elementary English, 1972
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing
Morgan, Argiro L. – Elementary English, 1972
The article discusses how semantic variations in the speech of lower socioeconomic children reflects the deprivations in their lives. (MF)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Dialects, Elementary School Students
Download full textDavis, O. L., Jr.; Seifert, Joan G. – Elementary English, 1967
A linguistic analysis of five children's books, randomly selected from the "Modern Masters Books for Children" series, described the features of language found in books for beginning readers and demonstrated the value of structural analysis in reading research. Four linguistic measures were applied to each book: 1) the average number of words in a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Beginning Reading, Books, Child Language
Ruddell, Robert B.; Graves, Barbara W. – Elementary English, 1968
This study investigated the relationship between the syntactical language development of first grade children and their socio-ethnic status. From a random selection of 160 first grade children, 19 Caucasians with highly developed language abilities were selected from a high socioeconomic stratum to be compared with 19 Negroes with low language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Disadvantaged, English Instruction, Grade 1
