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Harley, Birgit; And Others – Language Learning, 1995
Investigates the relationship between age of arrival in the second-language environment and a preference for prosodic versus syntactic cues to sentence interpretation in English. The study found that older English-as-a-Second-Language learners were just as likely as the younger ones to attend to prosody rather than syntax. (43 references)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cantonese, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis

Perkins, Daniel F.; Hartless, Glen – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2002
Identified risk factors related to suicidal behavior in European American and African American adolescents. For males in both groups, risk factors for suicidal ideation and behavior were found at individual, family, and extrafamilial levels of social ecology. For females, the same factors occurred for suicidal attempts but not suicidal thoughts.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Blacks, Child Abuse
Michalski, Paige; Hodges, Dodi; Banister, Savilla – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2005
This article chronicles one special educator's process of implementing adaptive instructional strategies in her middle school language arts classroom. Paige Michalski crafted adaptations for her students with disabilities in the curricular area of digital storytelling (Banaszewski, 2002; Dunn, 2000). Digital storytelling involves telling stories…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Verbal Communication, Language Arts, Computer Assisted Instruction
Phillips, Melvina – Principal Leadership, 2004
Practices for improving adolescent literacy--which includes reading, writing, and speaking--are much discussed and debated among secondary school educators and researchers. At Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama, the debate has ended after teachers and administrators implemented several practices that elevated student achievement from…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Middle Schools
Smith-D'Arezzo, Wendy M.; Kennedy, Brenda J. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
As a university instructor and a language arts middle school teacher, the authors have been working collaboratively for the last three years. This article describes their collaborative efforts, including what they have learned about their students and about the process of learning through the work they have done together. To introduce their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Applebee, Arthur N.; Langer, Judith A.; Nystrand, Martin; Gamoran, Adam – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
This study examines the relationships between student literacy performance and discussion-based approaches to the development of understanding in 64 middle and high school English classrooms. A series of hierarchical linear models indicated that discussion-based approaches were significantly related to spring performance, controlling for fall…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Literacy, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
Komro, Kelli A.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Veblen-Mortenson, Sara; Stigler, Melissa H.; Bosma, Linda M.; Munson, Karen A.; Farbakhsh, Kian – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
The objectives of this study were to examine outcomes of the Minnesota D.A.R.E. Plus Project on violence-related behaviors among middle school students and mediation analyses that test how the intervention was effective in reducing physical and verbal violence. Twenty-four schools were randomly assigned to the D.A.R.E. middle school curriculum,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Females, Males
Dzhrnazian, L. N. – Soviet Education, 1990
Proposes a model for school psychology services in the Soviet Union. Investigates positive and negative images of teachers and students held by 90 seventh and eighth grade students and 18 teachers. Finds an authoritarian type of complementarity, revealing that teachers' images of students often match their expectations. Recommends fostering more…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Child Psychology, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Sclater, Jennifer; Sicoly, Fiore; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education