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Peer reviewedHarris, Mary McDonnell – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
A study to determine the degrees of mastery by middle-class second grade children of seventeen syntactic competencies and to compare their oral and written syntactic attainment. (DD)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 2, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Download full textKline, Charles Robert, Jr. – 1971
Using second grade children, this study was designed to investigate the differences (or lack of differences) among the Interview, the Picture Stimulus Interview, and the Free Play Situation techniques in the categories of productivity, thought groups, compound structures, complex structures, and words per thought group as a means of gaining a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grade 2, Interviews, Language Patterns
HUGHES, MARIE M.; TAYLOR, JEWELL C. – 1967
STORIES DICTATED BY STUDENTS FROM GRADES 1 AND 2 OF SCHOOLS IN A POVERTY AREA OF TUCSON, ARIZONA WERE TRANSCRIBED BY CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND ARE REPRODUCED WITH ACCOMPANYING SEMANTIC ANALYSES. ANALYZED FOR BASIC PREDICATION FORMS AND MAJOR FORM-CLASS CONCEPTS WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THEM, THE STORIES ARE PRESENTED TO SHOW (1) DIFFERENCES IN THE…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Expressive Language, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 1
Peer reviewedSmith, Suzanne T.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Examines the source of poor readers' comprehension failures in spoken sentences containing complex syntactic structures. Although research literature indicates that the difficulties poor readers display are usually associated with some aspect of phonological processing, other components of language processing may be involved. (58 references)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 2, Grammar
Read, Charles; And Others – 1978
This paper examines certain of the cues to surface constituency that are salient to children in the comprehension of syntactic structure. Accessibility is studied through a set of experiments requiring seven-year-old children to repeat certain syntactic constituents. These children can correctly identify subjects and also predicate phrases with…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Educational Research, Grade 2
An Analysis of the Speech Adjustment of Second Grade Children to Variations in the Age of Listeners.
Plaskon, Stephen Paul – 1979
A sample of 48 middle and lower class kindergarten and second grade students participated in a study to determine what speech adjustments school-age children made for listeners of different ages. Half the second grade subjects learned about two performance tasks--a board game and constructing columns of colored blocks--from the researcher, after…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Language
Muller, Charles – 1978
A study is described of heuristic devices useful in learning both native and second languages. The study concerns particularly the means used by very young students (second and third graders) in vocabulary acquisition and in the establishment of semantic relationships. It was of concern to verify if (1) the children would use their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
