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Gregg, Noel – 1983
As a step toward developing appropriate instructional techniques to help learning disabled college students, mechanical errors were compared in the expository essays and controlled stimulus passages (rewrites) of 15 learning disabled, 15 normal, and 15 basic writers at the college level. Analysis of both types of writing samples showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Expository Writing
Scannell, Dale P.; Haugh, Oscar M. – 1968
The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness with which composition skills could be taught by the traditional theme-assignment approach and by an experimental method using weekly multiple-choice composition tests in lieu of theme writing. The weekly tests were based on original but typical first-draft compositions and covered problems…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 10, Grammar, Language Usage
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Ediger, Marlow – 1983
During the 1979-1980 school year, 23 Old Order Amish pupils in the Pleasant Hill School near Bloomfield, Iowa, took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. On the language arts subtest, five of six third grade students ranked above 50% in capitalization, four ranked above 50% in spelling and punctuation, and three ranked above 50% in usage. Four third…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Amish, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Elementary Education
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1983
A sampling of over 100 ideas submitted by elementary school teachers at the Idea Exchange at the annual meetings of the National Council of Teachers of English are contained in this collection of teaching tips. The first chapter, "Getting to Know Each Other," includes games to help students learn each other's names, directions for making a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dictionaries, Elementary Education, Grammar
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1972
This revised collection is presented in a new format. Each objective consists of stating the general objective, giving directions, sample items, and answers. Objectives covering a wide range of writing problems are included emphasizing the improvement of clarity in expression. The text is divided into two categories: Mechanics and Usage. There are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Guides, Diction
South, M. S. – 1975
Modern poetry can be used as instructional material in beginning foreign language courses to offer a change of pace from the regular instructional materials and an introduction to the literature in the target language. Students also take pride in understanding original literary products of the language being taught. Modern poetry proves to be more…
Descriptors: German, German Literature, Imagery, Instructional Materials
PIERSON, HOWARD – 1967
RECENT RESEARCH WOULD SEEM TO IMPLY THAT THE RESULT OF INTENSIVE TEACHER-CORRECTION OF STUDENT COMPOSITION DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE EFFORT. IF TEACHER-CORRECTION DOES NOT PRODUCE THE IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENT COMPOSITION, PERHAPS PEER-CORRECTION WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE. A REVIEW OF THE FEW PERTINENT STUDIES INDICATES THAT PEER-CORRECTION IS AT LEAST AS…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, College Students, English Instruction
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Project English Curriculum Center. – 1966
THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THESE UNITS ON SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONEMES, PREPARED BY NORTHERN UNIVERSITY'S PROJECT ENGLISH CENTER, IS TO HELP 11TH- AND 12TH-GRADERS TO DISCOVER, THROUGH AN UNDERSTANDING OF PHONOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, THE SYSTEMS UNDERLYING THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. SPECIFIC LANGUAGE-SKILL OBJECTIVES ARE THE IMPROVEMENT OF (1)…
Descriptors: Consonants, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction, Grade 11
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Madaus, George F.; Rippey, Robert M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1966
The validity of the multiple-choice Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) Writing Test (1957) was tested by the University of Chicago Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction. Seven criteria developed by the center to score essay assignments were used to determine the relationship between STEP and actual writing behavior. Of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Testing, English Instruction, Evaluation Criteria
Tedeschi, Philip J. – 1975
Thirty informants were presented with sets of clauses punctuated as in the pattern "S1. If S2. S3" and asked which clause, S1 or S3, the "if" clause modified. Independently, several linguists judged the sentences "S1, if S2" and "S2, if S3" acceptable. Missing intonational clues or improper punctuation,…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language
Izzo, John – University of Aizu Center for Language 1994 Annual Review, 1995
A study examined patterns of English usage in 52 Japanese university freshmen's written compositions, particularly in the use of the subordinating conjunction "because." It was found that students often fragmented sentences when "because" was involved, or used a comma to separate a trailing dependent "because" clause…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Conjunctions, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
STEGALL, CARRIE – 1967
A TEACHER'S EXPERIENCE IN GUIDING A GROUP OF 40 FOURTH-GRADERS IN WRITING A BOOK IS REPORTED, AND THE BOOK IS INCLUDED. PROVIDED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF--(1) THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS OF WRITING EACH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK, (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENTS'"OWN ENGLISH BOOK"--RULES FOR USAGE, SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION,…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Stegall, Carrie – 1967
A teacher's experience in guiding a group of 40 fourth-graders in writing a book is reported, and the book is included. Provided are descriptions of--(1) the step-by-step process of writing each chapter of the book, (2) the development of the students'"own English book"--rules for usage, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, discovered by the…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Belanger, J. F. – 1986
A study examined whether patterns exist in the kinds and amounts of writing errors students make and whether teachers follow any sort of pattern in correcting these errors. Sixty compositions, gathered from a twelfth grade class taught by one teacher, were analyzed using the "McGraw-Hill Handbook of English." Student written errors were…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Diction, English Instruction, Error Analysis (Language)
Frank, Marcella – 1972
This reference guide presents detailed information about current English usage with emphasis on both formal and informal written language. The practical needs of advanced learners of English as a second language are considered and there is heavy concentration on grammatical usages that continue to trouble foreign students: articles, verb forms,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, English, English (Second Language)
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