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Peer reviewedDavis, Chris; Castles, Anne; Iakovidis, Euthemia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
A study investigated whether the phonological properties of visually represented words routinely influenced the process of lexical access. Subjects were 40 college students and 40 fourth graders. Results provide little support for the claim that the phonological attributes of words are used standardly to achieve lexical access. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Download full textStein, Mary G. – 1998
A study examined and explored the importance of language in successful math problem-solving. The participants of the study were 24 fourth-grade students in a public elementary school in an urban area. Students were instructed in solving math word problems with a variety of strategies ranging from task specific, procedural methods to…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4
McClure, Erica; And Others – 1993
A study compared the types of information included in English narratives written by monolingual American students, English narratives by bilingual Mexican students, and Spanish narratives by monolingual Mexican students, and possible differences by grade level. Subjects were in six groups: monolingual (English-speaking) American; bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
Goldman, Susan R., Ed.; Trueba, Henry T., Ed. – 1987
A collection of articles on English-as-a-Second-Language literacy and literacy education include: "Contextual Issues in the Study of Second Language Literacy" (Susan R. Goldman); "Mexican Adult Literacy: New Directions for Immigrants" (Concha Delgado-Gaitan); "Factors Affecting Development of Second Language Literacy" (Richard Duran); "Reading in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Age Differences, Bilingualism
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
