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Direct linkShannon Hall-Mills; Carla Wood – Topics in Language Disorders, 2023
The primary objective of this study was to compare the syntactic complexity of informational texts produced by fifth-grade students (a) with and without language impairment and (b) with and without native English-speaking proficiency on a curriculum-based reading and writing task. Expository writing samples produced by 114 children enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Syntax, Writing (Composition)
McCutchen, Deborah; Stull, Sara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
This study examined the relationship between children's morphological awareness and their ability to produce accurate morphological derivations in writing. Fifth-grade US students (n = 175) completed two writing tasks that invited or required morphological manipulation of words. We examined both accuracy and error, specifically errors in…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Writing (Composition)
Hamzadayi, Ergun – Education, 2015
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of progressive sentence development activities on 5th graders' description skills. The study was conducted based on the pretest-posttest quasi-experimental model with a control group. A total of 58 students participated in the study; 29 in the control group, and 29 in the experimental group. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Sentences
Download full textSabatini, John; Bruce, Kelly; Steinberg, Jonathan; Weeks, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
This technical report describes the conceptual foundation and measurement properties of the Reading Inventory and Scholastic Evaluation (RISE). The RISE is a 6-subtest, Web-administered reading skills components battery. The theoretical and empirical foundations of each subtest in the battery are reviewed, as well as item designs. The results…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Test Construction, Research Reports
Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Prvinchandar, Sunita; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study compared the effectiveness of two types of computer software for improving the English writing skills of pupils in a Malaysian primary school. Sixty students who participated in the seven-week training course were divided into two groups, with the experimental group using the StyleWriter software and the control group using the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Courseware, Writing Improvement, Elementary School Students
