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Gaquin, Sheila – Educational Leadership, 2006
In this column, the author relates her experience as a teacher in a K-12 school in Point Hope, Alaska, where most of the students spoke "village English," a form of nonstandard English mixed with the village's native language of Inupiaq. She relates how the students' reading test scores, which had been below the 25th percentile, were…
Descriptors: Eskimo Aleut Languages, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Scores
Yau, Maria; And Others – 1990
Fifty-six Toronto (Ontario, Canada) seventh-grade and eighth-grade learning-disabled students whose handwriting was very difficult to read were randomly assigned to either an experimental or comparison group. Experimental group students were loaned a portable computer to use freely at school and at home during the course of the experiment.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Instructional Effectiveness
Donato, Marjorie – 1990
A course of study was researched, designed, and implemented to improve the writing of fifth-grade students. Objectives of the program were to develop more positive feelings about writing while increasing the quantity, quality, and variety of writing. Cooperative learning and process writing was discussed with the participants, their parents, and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5
Erickson, Marianne – 1991
When evaluating the work of congenitally deaf students whose native language is spatial and semiotic, composition teachers must avoid being what Marjorie Siegel calls "verbocentric," since congenitally deaf students are, in effect, learning to write in a language completely foreign to them in structure, syntax, and grammar. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cued Speech, Deafness, English Instruction
Jin, Wenjun – 2001
This study presents a quantitative analysis of cohesion of the academic writing of Chinese English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) graduate students by applying Halliday and Hansen's (1976) model. Six Chinese graduate students from a Midwestern university were selected for the study, representing two proficiency levels in written English--advanced and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cohesion (Written Composition), Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Analysis
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Williamson, John – Educational Studies, 1990
Studies the writing achievement of 28 11-year olds attending an urban Newcastle upon Tyne (England) school and their ability to conform to standard English writing conventions. Finds the influence of a nonstandard dialect (Tyneside) to be minor. Observes writing difficulties are frequently related to mastering the writing system itself rather than…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bidialectalism, Dialect Studies, Educational Research
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