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In recent years it has become a matter of orthodoxy that language programmes are necessary for children from poor homes and children from minority groups. One of the most influential of all...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Social-class differences in children's speech and language have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, and a variety of theories have been put forward to explain and describe them. Some...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There has been considerable concern about the development and adjustment of children of mothers who work away from home, but there is little research evidence to show that maternal employment in...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Between 1973 and 1975 the Australian Council for Educational Research carried out a two-year study of five Victorian secondary schools, their structures, and relationships with the local community...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The Development of Meaning, by Joan Tough, is an investigation into children's use of language and its implications for their learning at home and at school. The study is essentially an...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The main reason for the use of essays is probably the belief, usually unwarranted, that essay tests do a better overall job than objective tests of measuring educational achievement. The...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Benjamin Bloom claims that, regardless of the differences among students that may be suggested by intelligence tests or assessments of achievement, about 95 percent of all students can master the...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Many young children watch television too long, indiscriminately, and too late into the evening. Their viewing may have an adverse effect on play and on creative and outdoor activities. At the same...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A concern for language learning, and the place of languages in the overall educational experience have not been the issues of great moment in New Zealand that they have been overseas, except...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Behaviour modification is something that many teachers and parents regard with great suspicion. The cause for this distrust is not hard to find. The jargon of the process has a mind-bending ring...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article