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Broekkamp, Hein; Janssen, Tanja; Van Den Bergh, Huub – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2009
This study attempts to reliably measure literature reading and creative writing ability, and subsequently to determine whether a relationship exists between the two abilities. Participants were 19 eleventh-grade students: 11 were known to be good readers of literature, whereas 8 were known to be poor readers of literature. Each participant read 4…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Improvement, Literary Genres, Writing Ability
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van Gelderen, Amos – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
The teaching of grammar is discussed from an instrumental point of view: what beneficial effects does such teaching have for students' language abilities (especially writing)? Two ways of approaching grammar teaching are confronted with each other: the learning of explicit rules and meta-linguistic knowledge about language on one hand and learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Linguistics, Writing Ability