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Merino, Barbara J. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1983
To compare and contrast language development in 22 normal and 22 language handicapped children, aged five to eight, who speak Spanish as a first language, the study focused on differences and similarities in the children's Spanish. Handicapped children performed significantly worse than controls in production of syntactic features, though not in…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Elementary Education
Goldstein, Brian A., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2004
With the increasing number of Spanish-English bilingual children in the U.S., both SLPs and researchers must understand speech and language developments in these children--and SLPs also need reliable assessment and intervention approaches for serving bilingual children with language disorders. This comprehensive text is one of the few to offer…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Spanish Speaking, English
Greymorning, Steve – 1997
This paper examines the growth and development of the Arapaho immersion program and discusses language revitalization strategies and methods used on the Wind River Reservation (Wyoming). Following a community request for an Arapaho language and culture program in reservation public schools, a test class of kindergarten students received an hour of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Elementary Education, Immersion Programs

Teemant, Annela; And Others – TESOL Journal, 1996
Identifies 10 principles that English-as-a-Second-or-Other-Language teachers need to address in collaboration with content area teachers. For each principle, a concern is described, a response is outlined, and a relevant example is provided. (14 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Class Activities, Concept Formation
Segalowitz, Norman; Freed, Barbara; Collentine, Joe; Lafford, Barbara; Lazar, Nicole; Diaz-Campos, Manuel – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2004
In this paper, the authors report the results of a study that compared differences in the linguistic gains made by native English-speaking students from the United States who were studying Spanish in one of two different contexts of learning. One was a regular university classroom situation in Colorado; the other was a study abroad program in…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Learning Readiness, Second Languages, Second Language Learning
Miles, Christine – 1996
The context and processes of language acquisition in bilingual, bicultural British-Pakistani and British-Asian children (ages 2-19) attending a school for severe learning difficulties (SLD) were investigated. The first study compared 20 children with SLD who had a proficiency in speaking English and in their mother tongue (Urdu, Punjabi, Hindko,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Communication Skills, Cultural Awareness
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. – 1990
The determinants and labor market consequences for immigrants of proficiency in speaking the dominant language (English in the United States and English of French in Canada) are explored, with focus on adult men using self-reported data from the 1980 and 1981 censuses of the United States and Canada, respectively. It is shown that the determinants…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Economic Status
Sasaki, Ruth A. – 1978
A set of specific and practical ideas for teaching language skills are presented, centered around the use of charts or "squares" of pictures that represent ideas that can be expressed in basic English. The focus is a story square, a system of pictures tied together by a plot and presented to the class as a puzzle. Squares for pronunciation can be…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Media, English (Second Language)
Clark, John L. D., Ed. – 1978
The following papers are presented in the conference proceedings: (1) "Development and Current Use of the FSI Oral Interview Test," by H. Sollenberger; (2) "Interview Testing in Non-European Languages," by W. Lovelace; (3) "Measuring Second Language Speaking Ability in New Brunswick's Senior High Schools," by M.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conference Reports, Higher Education
OSBORN, LYNN R. – 1968
A 5-DAY CONFERENCE, COSPONSORED BY KANSAS UNIVERSITY'S COMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTER AND SOUTH DAKOTA UNIVERSITY'S INSTITUTE FOR INDIAN STUDIES, WAS HELD IN MAY 1967 TO DISCUSS THE TEACHING OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION TO AMERICAN INDIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THIS REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE CONTAINS THREE POSITION STATEMENTS, DRAFTED BY THE CONFEREES,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Background

Butler, Mary, Ed.; Serafino, Robert, Ed. – 1969
Dr. Simon Belasco's paper "Programmed Instruction and the Psychology of Second Language Learning" explores basic assumptions held by curriculum designers and teachers concerning the possibility of second language acquisition in an artificial, unicultural, and contrived classroom environment. Concepts relating to scope and sequence, New Key…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Auditory Training, Conditioning, Language Fluency
Reeback, Robert T. – 1969
The Oral Language Program for which this document serves as a teacher's manual is a set of 147 daily lessons designed to help five- to seven-year-old children who do not speak English or who speak dialects of English that offer significant structural competition with the standard dialects. The manual provides a guide to the lessons, explaining…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Children, English (Second Language)
Gothenburg School of Education (Sweden). – 1971
The original objective of the nursery school was that acting in cooperation with the home, it should develop children motorically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A comparison of objectives with effects reveals many to be non-existent. A 1966 study of nursery school effects on child development revealed the following breakdown: (1)…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation

Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The British Columbia French Speaking Test, administered to grade 3 immersion students, measured their speaking skills through a story- retelling and group discussion task. When 110 immersion children were compared to 25 Francophone children, results indicated that the immersion children were comparable to the francophones in communicative skills…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, FLES
Tench, P. – IRAL, 1996
Reviews current practice in the study of phonological interlanguage. The methodology of 22 pieces of research is surveyed in terms of subjects, range of phonological features, "synchronic" and "diachronic" approaches, techniques and materials, audio-recording and transcription. The article discusses the advantages and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Students, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics