Carolyn Kessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Kessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kessler |
| SIGNATURE | KESSLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cooperative Language Learning
recent decades, this stand is particularly significant. The text offers an engaging analysis of various issues in teaching, arguing that the nature of language and L2 teaching problems must be reexamined if an effective pedagogical model and corresponding teacher preparation program are to be developed. Widdowson offers some observations which could provide a basis for classroom research; in Part 2, Aspects of Language, he looks at some semantic …
Cooperative Language Learning in School Contexts
Cooperative learning is designed to engage learners actively in the learning process. Through inquiry and interaction with peers in small groups, learners work together towards a common goal. As a major movement within the broad context of the educational mainstream, cooperative learning has specific relevance for literacy and language learning. Communicative approaches to second/foreign language teaching can effectively draw on the principles an…
Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics
Contents: R. Cocking, J. Mestre, Introduction and Overview. R. Cocking, S. Chipman, Conceptual Issues Related to Mathematics Achievement of Language Minority Children. G.B. Saxe, Linking Language with Mathematics Achievement: Problems and Prospects. J.B. Stone, Intention and Convention in Mathematics Instruction: Reflections on the Learning of Deaf Students. E.K. Scholnick, Why Should Developmental Psychologists Be Interested in Studying the Acqu…
Language minority children's linguistic and cognitive creativity
In the southwestern United States thousands of children enter the schooling process as language minority speakers of Spanish. This paper discusses findings from an empirical investigation of the effects of bilingualism on the linguistic and cognitive creativity of language minority children proficiently bilingual in Spanish and English. Specifically, it addresses the cognitive processes of divergent and convergent thinking and the linguistic proc…
Using English
The Acquisition of Syntax in Bilingual Children
Syntactic Contrasts in Child Bilingualism1
Contrasts in the simultaneous acquisition of two languages in bilingual children support the theory that languages share deep structures and that differences derive from language-specific rules.Twelve bilingual children, age 6 to 8, participated in a study of the sequencing and rate of acquisitions for late-developing syntactic structures. Comprehension tests examined linguistic competence over a wide range of structures. A statistical analysis p…
Language minority children's linguistic and cognitive creativity
In the southwestern United States thousands of children enter the schooling process as language minority speakers of Spanish. This paper discusses findings from an empirical investigation of the effects of bilingualism on the linguistic and cognitive creativity of language minority children proficiently bilingual in Spanish and English. Specifically, it addresses the cognitive processes of divergent and convergent thinking and the linguistic proc…
Syntactic Contrasts in Child Bilingualism1
Contrasts in the simultaneous acquisition of two languages in bilingual children support the theory that languages share deep structures and that differences derive from language-specific rules.Twelve bilingual children, age 6 to 8, participated in a study of the sequencing and rate of acquisitions for late-developing syntactic structures. Comprehension tests examined linguistic competence over a wide range of structures. A statistical analysis p…
The Acquisition of Syntax in Bilingual Children
Using English
Language minority children's linguistic and cognitive creativity
In the southwestern United States thousands of children enter the schooling process as language minority speakers of Spanish. This paper discusses findings from an empirical investigation of the effects of bilingualism on the linguistic and cognitive creativity of language minority children proficiently bilingual in Spanish and English. Specifically, it addresses the cognitive processes of divergent and convergent thinking and the linguistic proc…
Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics
Contents: R. Cocking, J. Mestre, Introduction and Overview. R. Cocking, S. Chipman, Conceptual Issues Related to Mathematics Achievement of Language Minority Children. G.B. Saxe, Linking Language with Mathematics Achievement: Problems and Prospects. J.B. Stone, Intention and Convention in Mathematics Instruction: Reflections on the Learning of Deaf Students. E.K. Scholnick, Why Should Developmental Psychologists Be Interested in Studying the Acqu…
Cooperative Language Learning in School Contexts
Cooperative learning is designed to engage learners actively in the learning process. Through inquiry and interaction with peers in small groups, learners work together towards a common goal. As a major movement within the broad context of the educational mainstream, cooperative learning has specific relevance for literacy and language learning. Communicative approaches to second/foreign language teaching can effectively draw on the principles an…
Cooperative Language Learning
recent decades, this stand is particularly significant. The text offers an engaging analysis of various issues in teaching, arguing that the nature of language and L2 teaching problems must be reexamined if an effective pedagogical model and corresponding teacher preparation program are to be developed. Widdowson offers some observations which could provide a basis for classroom research; in Part 2, Aspects of Language, he looks at some semantic …
Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · First language (2 works) · Language acquisition (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (2 works)