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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Skarakis-Doyle, Elizabeth; Izaryk, Kristen; Campbell, Wenonah; Terry, Alexandra – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
This study examines preschoolers' acquisition of the maxims of the Cooperative Principle and the sociocognitive scaffolds that support this acquisition. In Study 1, 84 children between 3 and 5 years old were required to make passive judgments of violations of the Cooperative Principle. Results showed that children consistently identified…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cooperation, Communication (Thought Transfer), Age Differences
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Köymen, Bahar; Küntay, Aylin C. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study examined how Turkish-speaking preschoolers displayed oppositions in their peer interactions through two adversative discourse markers, "ya" and "ki". These two markers differ in their syntactic mobility. The data came from seminaturalistic peer interactions of 78 preschoolers. The discursive properties of…
Descriptors: Turkish, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship
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Peterson, Shira May – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examines the use of narrative and paradigmatic modes of explanation in large group discussions about science in preschool classrooms. Participants comprised students and teachers in 29 preschool classrooms, 19 of which used the ScienceStart! curriculum, a hands-on, inquiry approach to teaching science with young children. Analyses of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Science Education, Science Curriculum
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Kuntay, Aylin C. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
This study examines a corpus of conversations of Turkish preschool-age children with adults, with the goal of analyzing 2 types of extended discourse structures (i.e., lists and narratives). Lists and narratives are compared with respect to (a) their internal structures, and (b) their social functions in the participants' daily interactions. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Preschool Children, Discourse Analysis, Comparative Analysis