Relationship of Change in Child Language to Nursery School Climate as Determined by Teacher Verbal Behavior.

Barbour, Nita Hale

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ERIC Number: EJ113070

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Publication Date: 1974

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Relationship of Change in Child Language to Nursery School Climate as Determined by Teacher Verbal Behavior

Barbour, Nita Hale

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Ninety-five children in 28 nursery school classrooms were used to investigate the relationships between teacher facilitative or directive verbal behavior in nursery school classrooms and seven aspects of child language change (receptive vocabulary, vocabulary of use, mean length of response, complexity of sentences, inquiry statements, dramatic imitation statement, and related to situation statement).

Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Styles, Verbal Stimuli

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