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Hamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Program descriptions are introduced by theories of the reasons for the apparent low IQ of many black ghetto children. The theories are the genetic, the stimulus deprivation, the expectation, and the learning-exchange theory. Five experiments with ghetto underachievers are described. The first was designed to use token exchange in a remedial class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Black Students
Day, Richard R. – 1976
This article investigates the acquisition of a variety of standard English (SE) by children whose first language is Hawaii Creole English (HCE). The hypothesis was made that, in a speech community with high prestige and low prestige codes, learning the dominant code would not adversely affect performance in the first language. The subjects, in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Creoles, Dialect Studies
STEGALL, CARRIE – 1967
A TEACHER'S EXPERIENCE IN GUIDING A GROUP OF 40 FOURTH-GRADERS IN WRITING A BOOK IS REPORTED, AND THE BOOK IS INCLUDED. PROVIDED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF--(1) THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS OF WRITING EACH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK, (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENTS'"OWN ENGLISH BOOK"--RULES FOR USAGE, SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION,…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Wepman, Joseph M.; Morency, Anne S. – 1967
A study, at the University of Chicago, of 177 unselected children--an entire first-grade class of normal intelligence, of common ethnic background, and within 6 months of their sixth birthday--was made to determine (1) whether those children with speech inaccuracies consistent enough to qualify them for speech therapy would achieve in their school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Delayed Speech
Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Head Start Evaluation and Research Center. – 1969
The application of behavior modification procedures by Head Start teachers in the classroom and the remedial application of programmed instructions to children with preacademic deficiencies were studied in 11 classrooms located in three Kansas towns--Lawrence, Topeka, and Kansas City. Data were collected throughout the 1968-1969 year on both the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education
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
Stegall, Carrie – 1967
A teacher's experience in guiding a group of 40 fourth-graders in writing a book is reported, and the book is included. Provided are descriptions of--(1) the step-by-step process of writing each chapter of the book, (2) the development of the students'"own English book"--rules for usage, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, discovered by the…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
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Morisset, Colleen E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Used observations and home visits to examine sex differences in language ability of 54 disadvantaged children at risk for poor language outcomes. Found that language difficulties increased over time, boys were at a constant disadvantage to girls in language development, and sex difference in language ability appeared even when families had similar…
Descriptors: Adults, At Risk Persons, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Montanaro, Silvana – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses pre-linguistic and linguistic stages of language acquisition that are part of a continuum of receptivity and communication every child experiences in the first 3 years of life. Suggests parents assist language development by being sympathetic to each developmental turning point, providing the right emotional climate for expression, and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Grace, Janet; Suci, George J. – 1981
A study is undertaken to determine whether the nonlinguistic priority of the agent of an action facilitates the comprehension of word reference. The subjects were twelve male and twelve female infants at the one word stage of language production. The children were presented with three nonsense names (presented as part of a narration of a filmed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Case (Grammar), Child Language, Concept Formation
Serapiglia, Theresa – 1978
The purpose of this study is to compare the English syntactic structures produced in spontaneous oral language and the receptive English syntactic and vocabulary skills of bilingual Spanish and Indian children and monolingual Anglo-Americans, all of whom qualify for Title I elementary schools (Grades 1-6). People in Action, the Northwestern Syntax…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Comprehension
Bock, J. Kathryn; Hornsby, Mary E. – 1977
The ability of children at different ages to distinguish instructions to "ask" from instructions to "tell" and the types of structures used to express these directives were studied. Subjects were 120 children, aged 2 years 6 months to 6 years 6 months. Children were instructed to either ask or tell an adult or another child to give them puzzle…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Ben-Zeev, Sandra – 1977
A previous study found that middle-class Hebrew-English bilingual children were characterized by distinctive perceptual strategies and more advanced processing in certain verbal tasks, as compared to similar monolinguals. The present study tested whether similar strategies and response patterns will appear when the children involved are from…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
Webster, Brendan O'Connor; Ingram, David – 1972
Research was conducted to study systematically the comprehension and production of the pronouns "he, she, him, her" in the language of normal and linguistically deviant children. The purposes of the study were to: observe the manner in which normal children comprehend and produce these four pronouns, in terms of both their use and their…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Delayed Speech, Distinctive Features (Language)
Ott, Elizabeth Haynes – 1967
A comparison was made between disadvantaged, Spanish-speaking elementary school pupils taught science in English by the oral/aural (OAE) method and those taught the same science content in English with non-oral/aural (NOA) instruction. Both the Ott-Jameson Test of individual oral expression and a group, pencil and paper test of responses to spoken…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis
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