This clinical study aimed at exploring the following issues:
1) whether English Primary Language and English Second Language students have similar ideas on the Life-Cycle of the Mealworm Beetle;
2) which words and phrases these two groups use to convey key aspects of that Life-Cycle
3) to what extent does the type and frequency of words and phrases used, vary with the student1 ability to communicate orally in English. Two Interview Conditions were used, the Verbal Con dition and the Verbal Manipulative Condition.
Results indicated that the ideas of students fell into four patterns regardless of whether subjects were-English Second Language or English Primary Language. A list of words and phrases used by the subject has bee identified, according to the language background of the sample and this list suggests that the type and frequency
of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs varied according to the language sub-group (ESL/EPL) and Interview Condition (Verbal/Verbal Manipulative). / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/21092 |
| Date | January 1978 |
| Creators | Marin, Patricia Margaret |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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