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Investigation Of The Relationship Between Children's Language And Teacher-Pupil Interaction, Jerry James Wellik Dec 1972

Investigation Of The Relationship Between Children's Language And Teacher-Pupil Interaction, Jerry James Wellik

Culminating Projects in Teacher Development

PROBLEM: It was the purpose of this study to determine the effect of pupil language as measured by the auditory reception and grammatic closure subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and indirectly by maternal education level on teacher interaction style in dyadic contacts with children.

PROCEDURE: Twenty-one -children age seven through ten were administered the auditory reception and grammatic closure subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. Maternal education was ascertained from the children's cumulative records. Teacher-pupil interaction for three hours of class time for each child was recorded according to the Flanders' Interaction Analysis Category System. …