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Overton, Courtney; Baron, Taylor; Pearson, Barbara Zurer; Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Spoken language sample analysis (LSA) is widely considered to be a critical component of assessment for child language disorders. It is our best window into a preschool child's everyday expressive communicative skills. However, historically, the process can be cumbersome, and reference values against which LSA findings can be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Black Dialects, Preschool Children, Oral Language
Bluiett, Tarsha E. – Education, 2018
Preschoolers construct culturally sanctioned messages regarding which gender-related behaviors are and are not acceptable (Scott, 2000). While play can bridge differences among children, it can also emphasize them. When opportunities to explore gender themes in an open-ended way are provided, children are afforded access to optimal play settings…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Dramatic Play, Play
Reed, Jolene; Lee, Elizabeth L. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2020
Children use language structures as a basis for learning how to read. Therefore, literacy learning for young children must incorporate the child's personal use of oral language. It is their personal oral language that supports them as they attempt new concepts and become better readers. Because of the important role that oral language plays in a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Birckmayer, Jennifer; Kennedy, Anne; Stonehouse, Anne – Young Children, 2010
Infants and toddlers encounter numerous spoken story experiences early in their lives: conversations, oral stories, and language games such as songs and rhymes. Many adults are even surprised to learn that children this young need these kinds of natural language experiences at all. Adults help very young children take a step along the path toward…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Oral Language, Childhood Interests
Neuman, Susan B. – Early Childhood Today, 2006
Language and vocabulary represent the very foundation of learning to read and write. Children who do not develop strong oral language skills and vocabulary in these early years will find it difficult to keep pace with their peers. Children use the natural medium of language for thinking. Those who acquire a substantial vocabulary are often able to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy, Oral Language, Language Skills
Lindfors, Judith Wells – 1999
People explore their world in many ways: they observe, they read, they ponder, they write, they listen. They also turn to others and intentionally engage them in their own attempts to understand. It is this turning-to-others that is the focus of this book, with reference to children. An act of inquiry is defined in the book as "a language act…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Inquiry, Language Role

Bohannon, John Neil, III; Leubecker, Amye Warren – Language Sciences, 1988
Describes a model that allows children to control the complexity of the speech they hear within conversations on a moment-to-moment basis. Experimental and observational data clearly delineate the reciprocal nature of how speakers "fine-tune" their speech to listeners. The effects of child-directed speech on language development are discussed.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Goodwyn, Andrew, Ed.; Stables, Andrew, Ed. – SAGE Publications (UK), 2005
This book is a "three-in-one" text that students may use to: (1) Develop their critical understanding of research literature through a focus on reviewing relatively small-scale investigations in a particular field of inquiry; (2) Increase their appreciation of what it is possible to achieve through professionally conducted research investigations…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Criticism, Research Methodology, Literacy
Miller, Judith C. – Day Care & Early Education, 1994
Noting that in a traditional view oral language comes before literacy, addresses some of the aspects of the development of literacy in children with communicative delay. Describes the experience of two children who began constructing their own literacy as they were involved in an intensive speech-language intervention program. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Delayed Speech, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy

Karnowski, Lee – Educational Leadership, 1986
Writing is now being viewed in its larger context of communication. Research suggests that young children use the more familiar communication systems like speech, drawing, music, and drama to add depth and meaning to their writing. Teachers must redefine their ideas about writing and children's communication knowledge. Cites six references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Drama, Early Childhood Education

Berry, Kathleen S. – Language Arts, 1985
Presents conversations of a group of fifth graders collaborating on a social studies task to illustrate how childen use language to learn. Focuses on one student whose oral language was rapid and chaotic but who demonstrated extremely sophisticated and complex structuring of knowledge to understand a particular social studies concept. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Education

Gramlich, Jo Ann – Montessori Life, 2001
Recommends talking to children to help them develop language skills. Identifies daily routines (mealtime, bath time, dressing, play) as ideal opportunities to engage in parallel talk, describing out loud what the child is seeing, hearing, or thinking during the activity and suggests self-talk as parents perform routine actions around the home.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
Myles, Florence – Second Language Research, 2005
This article presents a selective review of the work carried out recently in second language acquisition (SLA) research which makes use of oral learner corpora and computer technologies. In the first part, the reasons why the field of SLA needs corpora for addressing current theoretical issues are briefly reviewed. In the second part, recent…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage
Minami, Masahiko – 1993
The form of Japanese children's personal narratives is distinctly different from that of English-speaking children. Despite follow-up questions that encouraged them to talk about one personal narrative at length, Japanese children spoke succinctly about collections of experiences rather than elaborating on any one experience. Conversations between…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, Cross Cultural Studies
Woodard, Carol; Haskins, Guy; Schaefer, Grace; Smolen, Linda – Young Children, 2004
This article presents the Let's Talk project as a different approach to oral language development. This approach was based on observations of classrooms in the Netherlands where children talked at large tables while playing with miniature figures representing people and objects they were familiar with in their daily lives. It was also influenced…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Feedback
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