The article describes application of the epigenetic model to work with children in the period of early childhood development. The focus is placed on verbal learning. Projects wherein disadvantaged children gain in verbal skills through supervised mother-child interactions are described. The response of families to this approach suggests important…

Assesses the relative importance of synonymity and antonymity for memory encoding of words for second and sixth graders. Also, the variable of association strength is investigated for both groups through the presentation of false-recognition stimuli. (DP)

Sixty children with mean age 5.10 years were studied. Each member of two groups of 20 nonconservers was given a different kind of verbal rule instruction that was focused on the conservation of discontinuous and continuous quantity. (Editor)

The purpose of this study was to clarify some of the dynamics of test anxiety in the foreign-language classroom: to evaluate the effect of different test instructions (calculated to arouse or reduce test anxiety) on the test performance of foreign language pupils. (Author)

Study shows that additional reviews are not only highly effective in terms of delayed retention, but also are very efficient in terms of numbers of examples used as well as amount of time spent on those examples. (Author/CB)

Results are consistent with the hypothesis that sequential memory is dependent upon the availability of a verbal memory code. (Authors)

Experiments conducted to test theoretical formulations in verbal learning which have suggested a strategy for teaching a vocabulary list of foreign plus English word pairs. (MB)

Describes a very unstructured approach to the dual problem of preschool language preparation for the disadvantaged, and increasing teacher receptivity to such children. Evaluations from the points of view of the psychologist, teacher volunteers, the teacher, and parents are attempted. (AF)

Presents evidence to support theory that infants learn their language by first determining, independent of language, the meaning which a speaker intends to convey... and by then working out the relationship between the meaning and the expression they heard. (Author)