An attempt to interpret and analyze a book fantasy, for the very young child, written by Maurice Sendak. (Author)

Presents a case vignette which suggests that past failure in compensatory education programs springs from the failure of educators to 1) recognize the relationships between fluid intelligence and cultural deprivation, 2) utilize teacher skills in the psychodynamics of family relationships, and 3) changes methods of testing and categorizing…

Part of a series of articles entitled "Environment and the Child.

Based on a literature review and analysis of teaching methods and objectives, it is proposed that the emphasis on communicative competence ascendant in French foreign language instruction is closely related to, and borrows from, expressive techniques taught in French native language instruction in the 1960s. (MSE)

A program was developed to increase the receptive and expressive language skills of 24 secondary learning-disabled students. Program units covered word sorting, sight-word vocabulary, key-word reading, reading rate, reading comprehension, listening, and writing. (Author/SW)

Describes a technique that permits special education students to express their feelings through writing. Discusses the teacher's role in this process and outlines its benefits. (FL)

How manipulations of expressiveness and content coverage affect different student evaluation dimensions and student achievement are investigated. Based on a reanalysis of data from two original Dr. Fox studies, conclusions show that the effect of such manipulations varies for different student evaluation factors in three incentive conditions.…

Describes the functions, specific uses, syntactic structure, and typographical characteristics of titles, discussing examples from newspapers, books, films, and scientific journals. Analysis of the semantic relationship between title and text is followed by the description of various instructional techniques for the production of titles and the…

Expressive language samples were obtained from 20 children in four location-stimulus combinations and from wireless radio telemetry. No significant differences existed between the locations of home and clinic, but significant differences were noted among samples elicited using pictures as opposed to open-ended questions as compared to telemetry…

Discusses how single-word usage reflects two stages in child language development. Early words express internal states and share none of the corresponding semantic features of these words in adult language. Later words approximate the use of adult language and share standard semantic features of adult indicative words. (JMF)