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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
The principal of Mangere Central School describes his school's transition to multi-age grouping and gives advice for other schools contemplating a change in class structures.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An overview of the issues in the whole language versus phonics debate.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the South Pacific new approaches to the teaching of English are overdue. Here is one, tried in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu and Kiribati, using books not specifically designed for 2nd-...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is a true and unique language. Like any human language it transmits information efficiently,
using, in its case, great economy of movement rather than sounds. It is...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Young people behave and talk very differently at home and at school. This research report shows that our assumption about potential can be quite wrong. (From New Society, Sept. 1984, pp. 270–272, (...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: ECFolio_2_1986_003.pdf | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Nowadays it is widely assumed that professionals have a good deal to teach parents about how to educate and bring up children. Nursery school, for example, is seen, not just as a secure and enjoyable...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Californian experience and research bears on the problems of teaching children with diverse languages and diverse cultural attitudes to education. Solutions appear, and are relevant to...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Once a day I try to state in short words what I think. The words I use are words of one pulse. The rest of the day I use words that are two~, three~, or six-pulse words ~ just the way school folks...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Is classroom interaction research worth the effort involved? Up till recently the main result of decades of work seemed to be that 'time on task' was the only thing you could be sure about: the more...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article