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Tulabut, Remy J.; Guzman, Roberto V., Jr.; Abaring, Precie Rose M.; Armada, Avegaile P.; Ilustre, Angelique H.; Torda, Monica Jane T. – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Prepositions are small words that serve important functions in the meaning of sentences. They show relationships between persons, objects, places etc. They also act as vital markers to the sentence structure. This descriptive analysis measured and analyzed the common errors of 44 grade 9 students in the use of prepositions using an objective test.…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Form Classes (Languages), Learning Strategies, English (Second Language)
Fry, Danny Janice Whitley – 1971
Two grammars (traditional and transformational) and two methods of teaching (direct and indirect) were measured to determine their effects upon the writing performance of students of low socioeconomic backgrounds. While the direct teaching of grammar was concerned with the correction of specific errors, the indirect teaching was concerned with a…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grade 9, Sentence Structure, Socioeconomic Status
Kaymer, Gunter – Englisch, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Grade 10
Brozo, William G. – 1985
Methods for teaching students to recognize and manipulate structures of cohesion in reading materials are discussed. Teaching students to connect text involves a strategy that combines reading and writing in student- and teacher-directed activities. An example illustrates how the strategy can be applied with specific course content, a ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 9, High School Students
Mavrogenes, Nancy A.; Galen, Nancy D. – 1980
The difference model of reading disability was used to generate three research hypotheses for testing the relationship between language development (syntactic maturity) and reading achievement at the secondary school level. This model assumes that reading difficulties are attributable to differences or mismatches between the reader's response…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Held, Jeanette R. – 1968
In answer to the need for more effective punctuation instruction, a project, based on the theory that an essential relationship exists between intonation and punctuation, was designed for and executed with two 9th-grade student groups--one experimental, the other control. The experimental group received punctuation instruction through the use of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Intonation, Language Patterns
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McGuire, Eileen J. – English Journal, 1967
When ninth-grade students are searching for help in expressing their newly discovered ideas, the principles of transformational grammar can be brought to their aid in the following ways: (1) Assign a provocative topic to the students which they are to discuss as fully as possible in one sentence. (2) Present only the kernel sentences of a…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Grammar, Junior High School Students