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Heggie, Lindsay; Wade-Woolley, Lesly – Reading Psychology, 2018
We examined the relationship between two metalinguistic tasks: prosodic awareness and punctuation ability. Specifically, we investigated whether adults' ability to punctuate was related to the degree to which they are aware of and able to manipulate prosody in spoken language. English-speaking adult readers (n = 115) were administered a receptive…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Punctuation, Metalinguistics
Laurie, Robert; Bridglall, Beatrice L.; Arseneault, Patrick – SAGE Open, 2015
The effect of using a computer or paper and pencil on student writing scores on a provincial standardized writing assessment was studied. A sample of 302 francophone students wrote a short essay using a computer equipped with Microsoft Word with all of its correction functions enabled. One week later, the same students wrote a second short essay…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Writing Achievement
Biscaye, Elizabeth; Pepper, Mary – 1989
The 1986 report by the Canadian Task Force on Aboriginal Languages, which recommended that the writing systems used for the northern Dene languages be standardized within 10 years, resulted in the 1987 Dene Standardization Project. The mandate for the project was to make recommendations on orthography standardization as the first step in the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Pringle, Ian; Freedman, Aviva – 1985
The third of three studies involving a comparative analysis of transactional and narrative writing of selected samples of students in two Ontario districts, this study addressed questions arising from the earlier studies and examined the writing skills of students in grades 5, 8, and 12. Writing samples were examined for conformity to the norms of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Narration

Cumming, Alister; So, Sufumi – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1996
Describes the dynamics of problem solving through spoken discourse in one-to-one tutoring of second-language writing in order to determine whether these processes vary with either instructional approach or language used. Tutors' and students' cooperative efforts to solve problems in the students' draft compositions focused primarily on local…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Laing, Donald; van den Hoven, Adrian – 1986
A study examined the written English proficiency of Windsor, Ontario francophone eighth-graders being educated entirely in French and compared it to norms for English-speaking eighth-grade children educated in English or French. Results suggest that these francophone students compare favorably with anglophone groups in syntactic maturity and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages