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Download full textCooper, Thomas C.; And Others – 1980
Second language students may develop writing skills gradually, or they may learn and practice these skills through the use of sentence combining techniques. A study is reported of the consistent use of sentence combining exercises with intermediate language classes at the university level. A total of 325 students enrolled in intermediate French,…
Descriptors: French, German, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedCooper, Thomas C. – Modern Language Journal, 1981
Presents study conducted to determine whether sentence combining approach would increase rate of written syntactic development of college students of French, German, and Spanish. Results show it is effective for teaching some aspects of writing to intermediate foreign language students. (BK)
Descriptors: College Students, French, German, Higher Education
Cooper, Thomas C. – 1978
A study was conducted with the following objectives: (1) to determine if sentence-combining practice would prove to be an efficient way of promoting statistically significant syntactic development in the writing of third quarter college students of French, German, and Spanish; (2) to apply the methodology for analysis of writing samples to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, German, Higher Education
