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Language Use and School Performance by Aaron V. Cicourel, Kenneth H. Jennings, Sybillyn H. M. Jennings, Kenneth C. W. Leiter, Robert MacKay, Hugh Mehan, David R. Roth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Language Use and School Performance presents the results of a study undertaken during 1969-1970 to investigate the link between language use and school performance. A basic theme of this report is that early school experience is probably the most important stage in a child's educational career. The emphasis is on the acquisition and use of language at home and in the primary school. Comprised of seven chapters, this book seeks to clarify everyday school decisions made by school personnel based on the child's performances in particular classroom and testing situations that influence his/her educational career early in life. The discussion begins by focusing on the placement of students in two kindergarten classes in two southern California school districts. More specifically, the chapter examines the practices used by teachers to assign students to classes having particular characteristics; to place them in ability groups within classes; and to promote them to the next grade. Subsequent chapters explore how teachers accomplish classroom lessons; intelligence testing as a social activity; standardized tests as objective/objectified measures of a child's'competence'in school; and test

Who reads Language Use and School Performance?

Author

Aaron V. Cicourel, Kenneth H. Jennings, Sybillyn H. M. Jennings, Kenneth C. W. Leiter, Robert MacKay, Hugh Mehan, David R. Roth

Publisher

Elsevier Inc, Academic Press Inc

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780121749507

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24