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Phye, Gary D.; Zimmerman, Bonnie B. – 1976
Free recall, cued recall, and clustering performance of fourth grade lower socioeconomic black and white children is studied under four conditions of teaching: random presentation, random presentation plus instruction, blocked presentation, and blocked presentation with instruction of categorically related list. Results indicate that both recall…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Download full textMcLean, James; Raymore, Sandra – 1972
This publication reports on research which has investigated phoneme acquisition and carry-over in a programmatic fashion. This research began with investigations of the effect of an extension of stimulus control of new phoneme responses through a systematic operant procedure. After quantifying the effect of such procedures in terms of stimulus…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Change
Zetterberg, Hans L. – 1969
To promote discussion, the problems and potentials of adult education in museums are set forth in this book. Both historical and contemporary services to scholars, artists, nationals, and schoolchildren are considered. Essays treat the interplay of scholarship and education, the interplay of collection and education, factors affecting the scope of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art Education, Artists, Arts Centers
Farmer, Capen – 1967
This study examines ways in which children verbalize emotional experiences at successive age levels. Four groups of 16 boys and girls each drawn from the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth grades of a middle class private school in New York City were asked to describe happiness, sadness, love, anger, and fear. Raw protocols were scored according to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Communication Skills
Moerk, Ernst L. – 2000
This book provides a summary of past and cutting-edge research on the acquisition of language by young children. It lends support to the behavioralist paradigm of language acquisition, namely, that maternal rewards and corrections should be integrated with perceptual, cognitive, and social learning conceptualizations in a skill-learning approach…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Cultural Differences, Epistemology
Peer reviewedEspiritu, Evangeline; Meier, Daniel R.; Villazana-Price, Norma; Wong, Manuel Kichi – Young Children, 2002
Four teachers from diverse early childhood environments formed a teacher research group to learn more about children's language and literacy development. This article discusses the formation of the group, the value of teacher research for understanding children's language, and the lessons learned by the participating teachers that enhanced their…
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Bilingual Students
Peer reviewedStroud, Judith E. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1995
Reviews studies suggesting benefits of block play for literacy development that provides actual reading and writing experiences. Suggests that block play centers can be literacy-enhanced with materials that are authentic, useful, and appropriate, including: thematic books, magazines, architectural blueprints, envelopes, and adding machine tape.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Learning Centers (Classroom)
Sigrest, Christine E. – 1992
A study assessed the effectiveness of three cognitive levels of instruction with first graders--three-dimensional (3-D) instruction using real objects, two-dimensional (2-D) instruction using picture representations, and verbal instruction. The study population included 18 first-grade students between the ages of 6 and 8 at a small elementary city…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students
AMSDEN, CONSTANCE; AND OTHERS – 1965
THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES PLANS FOR A PROGRAM FOR MEXICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN IN PRESCHOOL THROUGH THIRD GRADE AT THE MALABAR STREET SCHOOL IN EAST LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. IN CONTRAST TO THE TRADITIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM, THE PROGRAM WILL EMPHASIZE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY VERBAL MEDIATION SKILLS. READING INSTRUCTION WILL BE BASED ON…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Black Students, Child Development, Community Centers
Cowe, Eileen Grace – 1967
A study of two public school kindergarten classes in New York City, heterogeneously grouped according to ethnic origin and social background, revealed that the maturity and fluency of the children's language varied according to the type of classroom activity in which they were engaged. From observational recordings of teacher-class interaction, it…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Instruction, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Berry, Mildred Freburg – 1969
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the text is intended as an introduction to language disorders in children. Aspects of tracking language in the nervous system considered include neural substrates of language development, operational systems, and operational mechanisms. Language and learning are discussed in terms of the psychological…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Case Studies, Child Language, Clinical Diagnosis
Bereiter, Carl; And Others – 1969
Seven studies were undertaken to further extend the development and testing of an academically-oriented preschool program for disadvantaged children. The studies investigated (1) Curricula Development and Testing in Bereiter-Engelmann Program, (2) Dual Kindergarten, (3) Follow-Up Data on the Achievement of Disadvantaged Children Who Participated…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Auditory Discrimination, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Design
Nelson, Gordon K. – 1973
A total of 100 3- and 5-year-old children were trained and assessed individually on the concept of equilateral triangle at three levels of attainment: concrete, identity, and classificatory. Five training conditions existed: (1) visual inspection; (2) visual inspection and verbal orienting instruction; (3) visual inspection, free haptic activity,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Rothkopf, Ernst Z., Ed.; Johnson, Paul E., Ed. – 1971
The symposium on which this report is based was motivated by the belief that scientific understanding of how man learns through language will some day help in the development and use of written instructional materials. The main purpose of the symposium was to take stock of the more promising findings and concepts about verbal learning processes in…
Descriptors: Attention, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Kaneda, Michikazu – Ehime University Bulletin, School of Education, 1972
The discussion presented here seeks to defend Lado's principle of "speech before writing" and focuses attention on the comparative effectiveness of audio versus visual presentation of language material. Reports on several experiments dealing with this problem lead the author to conclude that, as long as we have the tendency of verbalization or…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Experiments, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
