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Sauer, Lois E. – 1968
This study attempted (1) to determine the ability of children to translate four basic sentence patterns varied according to three levels of structural complexity (single words, clauses, and phrases filling sentence pattern slots), and (2) to determine whether this knowledge is related to their reading comprehension. A test of grammatical structure…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grammar
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This study compared a grammar program using a linguistic approach with one using a traditional approach to determine how each affects children's ability (1) to construct sentences which have variety in structure, and (2) to comprehend silent reading. Five experimental and five control classes of fourth-grade children were randomly selected from…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 4
