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KU professors' report says "Sesame Street" expands vocabularies
Bv Cathv Garrard
Kansan staff writer
As children, some KU students may have looked at Kermit the Frog. Big Bird and Ernie and Bert as friends.
Research shows that "Sesame Street" is more than entertainment because it plays an important part in children's vocabulary development.
Mabel Rice, professor of speech-language-hearing, and Alethea Huston and John Wright, professors of human development and family life, spent two years studying the language development of children who watch "Sesame Street." Several articles about the study have been published in the journal "Developmental Psychology" in the past two years.
Rice said the group did a study of 350 Topeka preschool children.
"The children were recruited," she said. "It was virtually impossible for there to be a control group because every child watches the show."
she said improvements were most notable in 3 to 9-year-olds. The more frequently the children watched the videos, more their vocabulary improved.
"It indicates that TV can be an effective teaching medium," Rice
picked a target area for the day and that, through the combination of redundancy, simplicity and clear communication, it helped children learn new words.
"Young children are able to learn up to nine words a day in preschool," Rice said. "Children can learn quickly when watching a videotape. You don't have to sit a child down and teach them new words. They can learn them by observing what is going on around them."
Huston, another researcher, said the Children's Television Workshop offered her a grant after seeing the study's results and asked her to do another long-term study of young children's media use.
She said that the program usually
The $1-million grant will be awarded over a seven-year period. Researchers will study the children for three years, and the other four years will be spent collecting and organizing research, she said.
Rice said she hoped that the studies would dispel the notion that television viewing was detrimental to children. It also suggested that it could be used for classroom instruction.
"They should be used in preschools and day-care centers as a break activity," Rice said. "It makes an entertaining break from the regular class."
Raconteur uses stories to assert opinions
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information that is not on an exam is bogus and not worthy of memory."
Propet admitted that students had asked those questions when he went to school, but not as often.
"I know that not 100 percent of students at KU are little money-grubbing, Camaro-driving, big-haired, tanning-booted, red-fingered gears, but it sure seems that way whenever I go up on campus," he said.
Moral center
Prostp employs his skills as a storyteller to support his strong opinions humorously.
Prostp said that many people did not see things the way he did and that he could not care less.
He uses an analogy to show his disgust with the Persian Gulf War
“It’s like if I go over to Woodlaw grade school over here some afternoon, and I wouldn’t want to get the kids in the sixth grade, some of them are too big,” he said. “I find the third-graders who are playing out there, and I go whoo up on them.
"Then, at the downtown parade later, I'm in a convertible and it's got draperies on the side of it that say this man whipped 10 third-graders. They are celebrating one of the most pitiful of alleged victories."
Propet also said he thought the gulf war was an opportunity for the "boony-tune colonels" to experiment with their various weapons.
"Now we're finding that all of these toys, devices and gizmos didn't work nearly as well as they said they would." Propst said. "They've had all of these years sitting around trying to think of ways to blow up pups, and they aren't nearly as efficient at it as they probably should be."
Propst said the war was over before he could make a protest sign.
"It seems more and more obvious that it was some gigantic joke," he said. "Nobody really \xnbows what or what I mean." That hasn't come quite out yet."
Prospit has lived in Lawrence off-and-on for nearly 30 years. He now lives in North Lawrence with his friend, Col. and his 20-month-old son, Lou.
Martin said the best thing about W. Prop's narratives in the book was that they had a moral center.
"He puts a label on experiences that occur, which is kind of an irony," Martin said. "Many people think of him as amoral, but I believe he has very strong moral opinions."
Propt said, "Maybe this goes on, but I don't see it. But I think people sat around and bulshitted a lot more than they do now. I can remember sitting around coffeehouses and beer joints for hours and hours, babbling. I don't know what we talked about. But it wasn't realestate prices, and it wasn't Camaros."
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