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Wang, Jie; Singhapreecha, Pornsiri – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Resolution to ambiguity imposed by English relative clauses (RC) was examined with Thai EFL students in this study. Offline experimental items included two-site context NPs, i.e., NP1 "of" NP2 (Complex NP of) and NP1 "with" NP2 (Complex NP "with") modified by RCs. As NP1 and NP2 occupy higher and lower positions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Ozkaya, Perihan Gulce; Coskun, Mustafa Volkan – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2019
The purpose of the current study is to reveal the effect of teaching the phrase-meaning relationship through digital storytelling on academic achievement and retention in teaching Turkish grammar. The study employed the mixed method. In the quantitative part of the study, the factorial design, one of the experimental designs, and in its…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Academic Achievement
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DeJarnette, Anna F. – Language and Education, 2016
I examined students' discourse while working in pairs at the computer in an eighth-grade mathematics class to understand how students kept track of the people and things they discussed. I found that students most often referenced themselves and objects within the environment, through references to shared knowledge and the representations on the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Technology, Discourse Analysis
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Beers, Scott F.; Nagy, William E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined the relationship of different measures of syntactic complexity with rated quality for two genres of text produced by middle school students. It was hypothesized that different measures would be associated with distinct aspects of syntactic complexity; words per clause with greater use of structures more typical of expository…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Syntax, Essays, Grade 7