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Researches into Preschool Education: Issues and Evidence.

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Clark, Margaret M. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1989

Suggests that experimental studies are valuable in analyzing children's language development. Criticizes the scarcity of experimental and naturalistic investigation into preschool language development. Calls for long-term study of continuity and discontinuity in children's school and home learning and between different school stages. Observes that…

Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Continuity, Experiments, Language Acquisition

Physical Environmental Regulation of Verbal Behavior during Play.

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Gehlback, Roger D.; Partridge, M. J. – Instructional Science, 1984

Describes three experiments measuring changes in children's social speech which used the presence or absence of partitions allowing partial visual contact to alter verbal communication contingencies between players. Altered levels of speech and specificity confirm importance of physical environmental factors in regulation of children's play. (MBR)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Experiments