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Sonnenschein, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Investigates how feedback from a listener helps kindergarteners attend to message quality and how such feedback affects speaking and listening skills. Results indicate that kindergarteners learn to assess message adequacy by observing listeners flounder with inadequate messages.(Author/AS)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Communication Skills
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Sigman, Marian; Ungerer, Judy A. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Attempts to identify deficits in object knowledge specific to the autistic syndrome. Examines the correspondence between sensorimotor and play behaviors and language in mentally retarded and normal children. Determines whether these correspondences are different for autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children.(Author/AS)
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Disabilities
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Krashen, Stephen D.; And Others – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
Presents areas of agreement among professionals on research and theory in language teaching as it is applicable to classroom methodology and contrasts these with assumptions held by many teachers and laypersons. Considers the practical implications of these points of accord and presents recommendations for teacher training and the development of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Language Skills, Linguistic Theory
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Jones, Randall L. – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
Reacts to Michael Canale's paper, "Considerations in the Testing of Reading and Listening Proficiency," concentrating on three areas: (1) the nature of the receptive skills and the requirements of a valid instrument to measure them, (2) the design features that are consistent with his test design principles, and (3) adaptive testing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
Examines the suggestions found in Michael Canale's paper, "Considerations in the Testing of Reading and Listening Proficiency," in the light of a possible U.S. Government's Interagency Language Roundtable receptive skills proficiency test which must supply the answer to the question of how well an individual can understand a particular…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Wyatt, David H. – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
Describes and assesses what can be achieved in the learning and testing of the receptive language skills with computer hardware now available. Provides guidelines and suggestions for the development of language learning and testing software. Defines three types of computer programs: instructional, collaborative, and facilitative. (SED)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension
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Matalene, H. W. – College English, 1984
Shows how a significant literary question of preindustrial Europe--What causes one person to listen to another?--is still of major importance in a nuclear age. (MM)
Descriptors: Attention, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Futures (of Society)
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Johnson, Donald D. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research
Wise, Barbara W.; Snyder, Lynn – 2001
This paper reviews the literature on the role of judgment and collaboration between clinicians and researchers to identify and instruct students with reading difficulties, particularly reading difficulties based on either underlying core deficits in phonological processing or poor language comprehension. For students with speech-sound based…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wing, Clara S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1982
A model of language abilities in matrix form is described in which areas of language ability are defined in terms of the effects of receptive and expressive language processes on four linguistic levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps, Language Tests
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Conklin, John M.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
Speech, speechreading, and manual reception skills of 78 deaf students were evaluated over a 2-year interval of residency at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in order to determine the relative stability of these skills within an integrated environment which stresses the use of amplification and oral-aural instruction. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Educational Research, Environmental Influences
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Richman, Lynn C. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1980
The study examined patterns of cognitive ability in 57 cleft lip and palate children (ages 7 to 9) with verbal deficit, but without general intellectual retardation to evaluate whether the verbal disability displayed by these children was related primarily to a specific verbal expression deficit or a more general symbolic mediation problem.…
Descriptors: Children, Cleft Palate, Cognitive Ability, Congenital Impairments
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Beckmeyer, Ted – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Disabilities, Elementary Education
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Schmidt, Chris L. – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Maternal ostensive naming was investigated in a cross-sectional study of 12 children. Display, demonstration, and pointing were coded with regard to whether and how coexisting speech referred to gesture focus. Maternal input was found to be significantly correlated with children's reported receptive vocabulary. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Cross Sectional Studies, Infants
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Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined morphosyntax in persons with Williams Syndrome (WS). Analyzed receptive language of English-speaking WS persons and grammatical gender assignment of French-speaking WS persons. Found within-domain dissociations in grammatical gender assignment across several sentence elements and difficulties in understanding embedded sentences, which…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Child Development, Children
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