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Andrew Burrell; Roger Beard – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Framed within the fields of applied linguistics and language play, the writing of three attainment groups of 9-11-year-old children was used to investigate their use of ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition of an imaginative narrative. The scripts were from a larger repeat-design study of writing development that addressed a range of…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Punctuation, Narration, Childrens Literature
Andrew Burrell; Roger Beard – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2023
The writing of 38 9-10-year-old children was used to investigate their use of ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition of two kinds of writing, imaginative narrative and persuasive description. Framed within a consideration of language play in general, and children's use of punctuation in particular, the investigation revealed the ways in…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Punctuation, Children, Personal Narratives
Thoma, Athina; Iannone, Paola – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2022
This exploratory study reports on characteristics of proof production and proof writing observed in the work of first-year university students who took part in workshops on the theorem prover LEAN (https://leanprover.github.io). These workshops were voluntary and offered alongside a transition to proof module in a UK university. Through…
Descriptors: Validity, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Marion Martínez; Leesa Clarke; Lorna Hamilton; Christopher J. Hall – Language Awareness, 2024
This study explored the effects of learning activities which encouraged positive crosslinguistic influence from L2 Spanish to L1 English grammar in young learners. The learners (N = 82) were studying Spanish as their compulsory foreign language at an English state primary school in the UK. As part of ten timetabled Spanish classes over a period of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
UK Department for Education, 2024
This report sets out the findings of the technical development work completed as part of the Use Cases for Generative AI in Education project, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) in September 2023. It has been published alongside the User Research Report, which sets out the findings from the ongoing user engagement activity…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics
Bell, Huw; Ainsworth, Steph – Language Awareness, 2021
This paper starts by reporting on the design and trialling of an informal, low-stakes test designed to assess the knowledge of grammar terms of pre-service primary school teachers following the UK's National Curriculum, the results of which were used to inform the design of a series of optional grammar classes. The test proved surprisingly…
Descriptors: Grammar, Feedback (Response), Difficulty Level, Spelling
Satchwell, Candice – Literacy, 2019
How an author communicates with a reader is a central consideration in the critical examination of any text. When considering the communication of ideas from young people whose voices are seldom heard, the journey from author to audience has particular significance. The construction of children and young people as 'authors' is important,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Students with Disabilities, Authors, Learning Problems
Leung, Janny H. C.; Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
We report three experiments that explore the effect of prior linguistic knowledge on implicit language learning. Native speakers of English from the United Kingdom and native speakers of Cantonese from Hong Kong participated in experiments that involved different learning materials. In Experiment 1, both participant groups showed evidence of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Orthographic Symbols, Prior Learning
Dockrell, Julie E.; Connelly, Vincent; Walter, Kirsty; Critten, Sarah – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
The assessment of children's writing raises technical and practical challenges. In this paper we examine the potential use of a curriculum based measure for writing (CBM-W) to assess the written texts of pupils in Key Stage 2 (M age 107 months, range 88 to 125). Two hundred and thirty six Year three, five and six pupils completed a standardized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition), Standardized Tests
Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Watson, Annabel; Lines, Helen – Literacy, 2013
The place of grammar within the teaching of writing has long been contested and successive research studies have indicated no correlation between grammar teaching and writing attainment. However, a recent study has shown a significant positive impact on writing outcomes when the grammar input is intrinsically linked to the demands of the writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grammar, Literacy Education, English Instruction
Kotzee, Ben; Johnston, Roger – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
Concern exists among both academics and employers regarding the quality of graduates' writing. The complaint, as it is most commonly phrased, is that young graduates can no longer "string a simple sentence together". If true, this is a problem: the quality of students' writing seriously affects their chances in the job market. In this…
Descriptors: Sentences, Labor Market, Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Swanwick, Ruth A.; Kitchen, Ruth; Clarke, Paula J. – Deafness and Education International, 2012
This study examined different perspectives of deaf education practitioners on deafness and reading comprehension. This involved a full deaf education support team comprising teachers of the deaf, communication support workers, and deaf instructors from a UK citywide service covering early years, primary and secondary settings. Using a focus group…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sign Language, Focus Groups, Deafness

Lee, Deborah; Gavine, David – Educational Research, 2003
Two groups of 28 students each alternated as experimental and control groups in spelling and punctuation projects. Experimental groups used goal setting and self-evaluation to monitor learning, supported by class discussions. Results showed the intervention raised spelling scores 60-80%, punctuation scores 70-75%. Progress was achieved only when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Punctuation