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Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
A study of two English-Hebrew bilingual children's productive vocabulary loss in oral Portuguese after discontinued contact with the language investigated lexical loss in Portuguese storytelling behavior. Analysis focused on the nature of attrited productive lexicon, compensatory lexical production strategies, and lexical retrieval process.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
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Jamieson, Janet R. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Examines from a Vygotskian perspective deaf children's private speech, i.e., speech that is spoken aloud (or visibly performed) but that is addressed to no particular person. Findings are consistent with Vygotsky's notion of the robustness of the phenomenon and its ontogenesis in early social communication. (33 references) (LR)
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Stephenson, Margaret E. – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses language in the context of human development and civilization, examining a limitless field of studies and observations including the absorbent mind, the acquisition of language and grammatical structure, the linguistic capacity for abstract thought, the power of language and world community, the role of language and human uniqueness, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Community
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Crain-Thoreson, Catherine; Dahlin, Michael P.; Powell, Terris A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Examined associations between parent language complexity and conversational style and child language use. Contrasted parents' story reading language style with their style for free play with toys and joint remembering of an event. Findings underscore the extent to which children's conversational ability is shaped by the demands of the social and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment
Christie, Frances; Rothery, Joan – 1979
Five articles explore ideas about the nature and kinds of courses dealing with language and education that should be developed in teacher education programs in the Australian school curriculum, specifically where English as mother tongue is used. They include: "Some Recent Developments in Mother Tongue English Teaching in Australia"…
Descriptors: Child Language, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Teachers
Martini, Mary – 1978
Noting that many instructional routines discourage complex thought and language, a study examined how teachers and children used language in the first 3 weeks in 3 preschools. Specifically it explored how teachers talk to children, what teachers ask children to do with language, and what children say in school. The language features of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills
Negnevitskaya, Elena J. – 1990
A discussion of bilingualism in young children in the Soviet Union looks at the three main forms of early bilingualism (bilingual home environment, different languages spoken at home and in school, and second language instruction in school), notes the challenges they pose for development and maintenance of bilingual skills, and then describes a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Solis, Adela – 1986
A study examined the acquisition of negation in English as a Second Language in a 4-year-old Salvadoran girl, a native speaker of Spanish. Specifically, the study looked for evidence of language transfer in bilingual acquisition and the direction of that transfer (Spanish to English, English to Spanish). Over 5 months, spontaneous speech (55…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich – 1994
A followup study looked at the language development of three children (aged 5-6 years during the present study) three years after initial observation. Initially, the children were Spanish-dominant; all had one native English-speaking parent; all were learning English easily. The followup study involved parent interviews and observations of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Early Childhood Education
Stanford Univ., CA. Dept. of Linguistics. – 1990
Papers from the proceedings are: "Cultural Universals in the Acquisition of Language;""The Acquisition of Locative Constructions in Cantonese Children"; "The Acquisition of VOT: Is It Language-Dependent?"; "Flexibility in Semantic Representations: Children's Ability To Switch among Different Interpretations of 'Big' and 'Little'"; "Multifunctional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Chinese, Concept Formation
Williamson, Leon E. – 1983
Concerned with what can be done to help produce more thoughtful, critical readers, this report first presents an historical overview of theories on the origin of language, referring to B. F. Skinner, Noam Chomsky, and Jean Piaget, among others. It then discusses biological reasons for the evolution of language and the impact of verbal language on…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading)
D'Acierno, Maria Rosaria – 1990
A discussion of bilingualism and second language learning distinguishes three types of bilingualism, namely, compound, coordinate, and sub-coordinate. A compound bilingual is an individual who learns two languages in the same environment so that he/she acquires one notion with two verbal expressions. A coordinate bilingual acquires the two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language
Nordberg, Bengt – 1982
The Unit for Advanced Studies in Modern Swedish (FUMS) at Uppsala University has one of the largest collections of spontaneous present-day spoken Swedish and has housed many sociolinguistic research projects since the 1960s. The four studies generating the most empirical data are on: The Urban Dialect of Eskilstuna; The Child's Linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Dialects, Discourse Analysis
Dobson, L. N. – 1983
A study examined the hypothesis that if young children are immersed in a social and psychological setting appropriate for language learning they can learn to write simply by writing. Placed in a supportive classroom environment, 24 first grade students were expected to communicate in writing in any way they could from their first day at school.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Rado, Marta; Foster, Lois – 1985
A study of some features of the language usage of nonnative English speakers focused on global communicative competence and the use of text-building devices. Subjects were the primary-school-age children of eight native Italian-, Greek-, and Macedonian-speaking migrant parents and a matched set of native-English-speaking classmates. The language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse
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