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Fox, Sharon E. – Language Arts, 1976
Teachers should enrich students' language environment, give children opportunities to practice their language, and allow feedback on language to occur. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Curriculum and Research Bulletin, 1972
Teachers often become dominated by the demands of subject disciplines and fail to provide opportunities for pupils to learn by talking, reading, writing about experiences they meet, for in this way they will come to terms with subject disciplines. (Author)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Reading, Self Expression

Soundy, Cathleen S.; Genisio, Margaret Humadi – Childhood Education, 1994
Describes an instructional approach that encourages teachers to guide children in narrating stories based on actual or imagined experiences, particularly those that transpire in the classroom. Discusses ways of incorporating events from dramatic play and everyday occurrences into storytelling activities and offers a story sampler that exemplifies…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Imagination, Language Acquisition
Stern, Carolyn; Keislar, Evan – 1968
In an attempt to explore a systematic approach to language expansion and improved sentence structure, echoic and modeling procedures for language instruction were compared. Four hypotheses were formulated: (1) children who use modeling procedures will produce better structured sentences than children who use echoic prompting, (2) both echoic and…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Echolalia
Lugton, Robert C., Ed.; Heinle, Charles H., Ed. – 1971
This collection of articles concerns various aspects of a cognitive approach to second language learning. The discussion of such an approach involves current ideas in linguistics, psychology, and sociology. The 13 chapters represent the work of 14 authors and include the following titles: "Toward a Cognitive Approach,""Teaching English to Speakers…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure
MacCubrey, Mary Katharine – 1968
Operant conditioning techniques were used to modify verbal behavior in 18 institutionalized, trainable mentally handicapped mongoloids with chronological ages from 4-6 to 7-10 and mental ages from 2.0 to 2.10. Two instruments were constructed to evaluate language: a language test and a speech rating scale. Project leaders had no prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Case Records, Down Syndrome
Muller, Charles – 1978
A study is described of heuristic devices useful in learning both native and second languages. The study concerns particularly the means used by very young students (second and third graders) in vocabulary acquisition and in the establishment of semantic relationships. It was of concern to verify if (1) the children would use their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975
Oral language development in early childhood education is concerned with conceptual development as well as with skill formation. There seems to be an order in which most children learn to verbalize basic concepts. This guide lists classroom activities that may be used to facilitate and enhance the conceptual development of kindergarten children in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Educational Games