Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002 deficitnoun The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shor...
The views of proponents and opponents of the language deficit theory--the theory that nonstandard dialect is a deficient form of language--are presented in this paper. Following a description of the work of Basil Bernstein, a British educator who is considered the key figure among proponents of...
Each theory is assessed in terms of the type of orientation and variables it specifies in accounting for the language characteristics of black and lower-class children. In addition, research that has applied these theories, and the implications of this research for educational reform, are discussed...
Instead of trying to make clients fit a preordained theory, it would be better to make careful predictions of how a client might present when he or she has a particular processing deficit, then see which individual aphasic persons fit this pattern, regardless of classical syndrome. Susan Edwards...
However, nonverbal ability has gone untested because most theory of mind measurement has involved verbal materials such as reading tasks. This raises the possibility that children with high function autism spectrum disorder would distinguish verbal and nonverbal component deficits. Thirty-two participants...
In this chapter, I first discuss Cummins' work on cognitive academic language "proficiency" as discourse. I highlight its reductive consequences and broaden its implications beyond non-English speakers (the primary focus of Cummins' work) to speakers of language varieties, namely Ebonics. In this ...
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5. not refined: base language. 6. held by or characteristic of villeinage. 7. Archaic. a. of humble origin or station. b. of small height. c. low in place, position, or degree. 8. Obs. deep or grave in sound; bass. [1350–1400; Middle English bas < Old French < Late...
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