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Peer reviewedFagan, William T.; Eagan, Ruth L. – English Quarterly, 1990
Determines whether French immersion programs result in detrimental effects on the ability of children in such programs to read and write in English. Finds that writing in English and French is fairly comparable across languages and that there is a transfer of processing behavior across languages. (MG)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Grade 3, Immersion Programs
Download full textEvans, Peter J. A. – 1992
A study identified stages of student writing maturation across several grades and developed classroom resources to enhance the maturation of students. A total of 3,600 essays written by students in grades 4 and 6-12 attending urban and rural schools in eastern Ontario, Canada, were holistically scored. The original limited and quite specific…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Expository Writing, Fantasy, Foreign Countries
Scraba, Elana J. – 1991
As part of the mandate of the Alberta Government's Student Evaluation Branch to monitor changes in student achievement, the Humanities Diploma Examinations Unit compared the written work from 1984 and the 1990 English 30, Social Studies 30, and English 33 Canadian provincial diploma examinations. Full-length essays written by over 30,000 students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
