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Sheckley, Barry G.; Bell, Sandy – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter highlights the central role of experience in learning and consciousness; it also outlines experience-based instructional processes that adult educators can use. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Brain
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McClure, Kathleen; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In the current debate about the abstractness of children's early grammatical knowledge, Tomasello & Abbott-Smith (2002) have suggested that children might first develop "weak" or "partial" representations of abstract syntactic structures. This paper attempts to characterize these structures by comparing the development of constructions around…
Descriptors: Verbs, Child Language, Program Validation, Investigations
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Nahachewsky, James; Ward, Angela – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
There is a continuing need to investigate how contemporary students in schools are writing the word, and their world, beyond modernist parameters of the page. This article explores the online writing of a senior English world literature class, located in a Western Canadian city, as examined through a recent qualitative case study. Borrowing a 17th…
Descriptors: Online Courses, English Instruction, Case Studies, World Literature
Foster, Sue – 1982
The emergence of the ability to maintain and develop a topic of conversation is examined. The production of a competently structured topic involves utterances that are both propositionally contingent on previous utterances and related to the global concern of the topic. Children under 2 years of age can only product utterances that are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse, Infants
Hull, Glynda A.; Smith, William L. – 1981
Composing is controlled by information feedback from prior behavior which serves to influence future behavior. This model posits movement toward a desired end product through a continual interchange of writing and examining and evaluating what has been written against internal standards. A study was conducted to determine the extent to which…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Feedback, Visual Stimuli, Writing (Composition)
ROSENBERG, SHELDON – 1967
THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH ON THE RECALL OF ASSOCIATES EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE AND A DISCUSSION OF THE THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS THAT GUIDED THE RESEARCH. EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED NOT ONLY FOR ASSOCIATIVE FACILITATION IN THE RECALL OF KEY WORDS BUT ALSO FOR A FACILITATING EFFECT OF ASSOCIATION UPON THE RECALL OF CONTEXT…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Connected Discourse
ROSENBERG, SHELDON – 1967
THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF ASSOCIATIVE CONSTRAINTS BETWEEN WORDS UPON THE RECALL OF CONNECTED DISCOURSE ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE. THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT ASSOCIATIONS WILL AFFECT BOTH STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL. FOUR STUDIES ARE DISCUSSED IN WHICH WORDS VARYING IN FREE ASSOCIATION STRENGTH WERE EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE. LEARNING WAS…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Behavioral Science Research, Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse
Stern, Otto – 1980
Narratives about personal experiences were elicited from 33 kindergarten children in a suburb of Zurich. The narratives were analyzed for the development of the use of the particle "ebe" from a conversational context (where the use of the particle was already mastered) to an appropriate narrative context (in which the particle, as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
Shima, Fred – 1970
In understanding comprehension as the active processing of reading material, and in assuming that certain key content is stored in the memory, then mnemonic cues could be one important means of recalling this stored information. Since associative words apparently have high mnemonic cue value, they have been the subject of numerous investigations.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes
Mackey, William Francis – 1971
The measurement of interlingual distance (how far removed one language is from another) is both possible and feasible; and it can be computed in different ways. The difference between the codes of the two languages can be measured by one technique and the differences in samples of discourse by another. The samples may be measured as static…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classification, Computational Linguistics, Connected Discourse
Nilsen, Don L.F. – 1976
The notions of recursiveness and deletion are discussed in the context of Chomsky's presentations of transformational grammar in "Syntactic Structures" and in the later work, "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." After consideration of word-recursion, coordinate-clause recursion, and subordinate-clause recursion, extensions to…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English, Linguistic Theory
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Powers, Gerald L.; Speaks, Charles – Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1973
Part of a Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota; results were presented in part at the 81st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Connected Discourse, Graphs
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Di Vesta, Francis J.; Gray, G. Susan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Study was designed to extend previous studies on note taking and listening by investigating the effects of thematic relatedness and of opportunity for consolidation on the learner's recall. (Authors)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Individual Differences, Intervals, Learning Processes
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Wheatley, James – Linguistics, 1973
Field work for this study was done under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (RS)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Connected Discourse, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Briggs, Janet R. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Morphology (Languages)
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