ABSTRACT
These comments come from a background of elementary school teaching and developmental psychology. Recently, I have been concentrating on how children learn (or acquire or develop) their native language, and on the environmental events which may affect that learning in and out of school (Brown, Cazden & Bellugi, 1969; Cazden, 1972). I was an elementary school teacher in the late 1940s and 1950s. Now I’m going back to teach children for one year in a primary classroom in an inner-city public school.
