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Peer reviewedHayes, David; Plaskon, Stephen P. – Educational Horizons, 1982
Describing what children at the preoperational stage know about writing, spelling, and words, the authors make specific recommendations for ways language arts teachers can build instruction that is based on this knowledge. (SK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Instructional Improvement, Language Processing
Tyler, Lrraine Komisarjevsky; Marslen-Wilson, William D. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1981
Discusses three experiments investigating the development of word-by-word comprehension in 5-, 7-, and 10-year olds. Subjects monitored for target words in a sentence. Variable included types of monitoring tasks and distribution and context of target words. Results are discussed in terms of the types of comprehension processes various tasks…
Descriptors: Children, Context Clues, Language Processing, Language Research
Snart, Fern; Mulcahy, Robert – 1979
Age differences in recognition and recall of common nouns were studied using three groups of fifty students, with mean ages of 6.7, 11.4, and 16.9. Subjects were randomly placed in either an incidental or intentional learning condition. All subjects were questioned about the physical, phonemic, and semantic aspects of the same words, in the same…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
