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Peer reviewedPiazza, Carolyn L.; Riggs, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Describes kindergarten children's oral and written language behaviors while operating a computer. Stages of computer language play and children's experimentation with speech and writing specific to the computer also are discussed. (AS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedGee, James Paul – Journal of Education, 1989
Reviews anthropological studies and demonstrates how the term "literate" has replaced the term "civilized" and how literacy is currently used to distinguish between different social groups in modern, technological societies. Discusses how teachers of English are actually teaching a set of oral and written social practices associated with the…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum, Language Acquisition
Donahue, Mavis L.; Pidek, Catherine M. – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1993
Oral paraphrase is presented as an informal and versatile strategy for assessing and enhancing listening comprehension in mainstreamed students with language/learning disabilities. Approaches to assessing the listening comprehension demands of individual classrooms and using various dimensions of paraphrasing to enhance language comprehension and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Intervention, Language Handicaps
Stansell, John C.; Moss, R. Kay – 1983
Language is a complex social event. The rules determining its use vary with (1) the language field--the subject, text, and purpose; (2) the tenor of the social interaction; and (3) the mode or type of communication being used. The impact of the field, tenor, and mode on language use is reflected in a college student's retelling of a story to a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
