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Mackie, Clare; Dockrell, Julie E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have associated difficulties in reading decoding and reading comprehension. To date, few research studies have examined the children's written language. The aim of the present study was to (a) evaluate the nature and extent of the children's difficulties with writing and (b) investigate the…
Descriptors: Written Language, Syntax, Writing Evaluation, Age
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Cumming, Alister; Kantor, Robert; Baba, Kyoko; Erdosy, Usman; Eouanzoui, Keanre; James, Mark – Assessing Writing, 2005
We assessed whether and how the discourse written for prototype integrated tasks (involving writing in response to print or audio source texts) field tested for Next Generation TOEFL[R] differs from the discourse written for independent essays (i.e., the TOEFL Essay[R]). We selected 216 compositions written for six tasks by 36 examinees in a field…
Descriptors: Grammar, Field Tests, English (Second Language), Pragmatics