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Frederiksen, Carl H. – 1976
The primary goal of early reading instruction, according to this paper, should be to teach children to comprehend written discourse in a manner similar to that for oral discourse because both types of discourse require decoding ability--graphic or acoustic. The paper asserts that to simply design reading instruction to achieve the subgoal of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse
Green, G. M.; And Others – 1980
This report presents the text analysis of "Babar Loses His Crown," a story for beginning readers. (The techniques used in arriving at the analysis are presented in a Reading Center Technical Report, Number 168, "Problems and Techniques of Text Analysis.") Tables are given for a statistical lexical analysis and for a syntactic…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Illustrations
Jones, Robert B.; Jorden, Eleanor H. – 1976
The Thai Discourse Analysis Project seeks to provide a description of linguistic structures of importance in understanding the nature of Thai speech. Previous studies have been limited, and restricted to consideration of the written language and "literary" speech. The project consists of three phases: the acquisition of recorded texts,…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Japanese, Language Research
Sell, David – The Modern English Journal, 1970
The main premise of this article is that tape recordings can be a very useful tool to the classroom language teacher. The author points out that the tapes are ideal for the habituation type of learning (dialogs, memorization, repetition, etc.,) which is preliminary to the communication stage of language learning. He is mainly concerned with five…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
Pincas, Anita – J Ind Arts Educ Special Issue, 1970
The patterns of different types of paragraphs are examined and suggestions on effective methods of teaching paragraph writing are given. (FWB)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Change

Jordan, Michael P. – Journal of Business Communication, 1982
Introduces and demonstrates the various ways that writers keep track of the main theme of the exposition and how they change signals to and from subtopics to maintain continuity in texts. Concludes with notes on teaching this material. (PD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis

Abbott, Gerry – Reading, 1979
Presents sample passages from children's readers to show deficiencies in the coherence of such texts, particularly in the way they relate to accompanying illustrations. (GT)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Educational Problems

Brinton, Bonnie; Fujiki, Martin – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
Adults with mild and moderate levels of retardation (20 living in institutions and 20 in the community) answered simulated job interview questions. The community group produced a greater number of appropriate answers to both simple and complex questions than did the institutional group. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Connected Discourse, Difficulty Level, Group Homes

Doddington, Christine – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2001
Suggests that, for young children, learning begins in conversation. States that children's speech activities in the classroom are a vital aspect of education and should not be limited to acts of speech with pre-determined ends. Argues that young children need to express their emotions and extend their sensibility, humanity, and identity in the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Connected Discourse, Dialogs (Language)
McCutchen, Deborah; Perfetti, Charles A. – 1982
Arguing that discourse coherence can provide a window on the writing processes that produce it, this paper describes developmental differences observed in children's writing and proposes a procedural model to account for those differences. The first section of the paper points out that a developmental model of the writing process should specify…
Descriptors: Coherence, Computer Assisted Testing, Connected Discourse, Developmental Stages
Rudin, Catherine – 1986
The unique position of WH words in Slavic languages is discussed, with specific reference to Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian. The multiple fronting characteristics of Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian differ in terms of the following positions and behaviors: extraction from embedded questions; clitic placement and other indications of constituent status;…
Descriptors: Bulgarian, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, Form Classes (Languages)
Woodley, John W. – 1984
Eighty-two undergraduate and graduate students at a major southwestern university participated in a study integrating reading research utilizing tachistoscopes with current knowledge based on analysis of reading connected texts. A tachistoscope was used to examine the nature of visual perception in relation to the ability of the subjects to apply…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Reading Ability
Attwood, Peter – 1986
An approach to text translation that focuses on understanding the original text and the writer's intentions is outlined. The approach uses a sequence of steps including: studying the text carefully, knowing the writer's background, analyzing the text, understanding the writer's use of words, normalizing the text's grammatical form, composing the…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Vande Kopple, William J. – 1982
Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that a paragraph composed of sentences with identical or closely related topics would be easier to read than one whose sentence topics were only remotely related. The first experiment involved subjective judgments by 131 high school students on the readability of two paragraphs identical in…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Enkvist, Nils Erik; Kohonen, Viljo – 1976
This volume contains papers presented in connection with a symposium held in 1975 and sponsored by Abo Akademi, for the purpose of discussing ongoing research in word-order studies. Papers include: (1) a prolegomena by N.E. Enkvist; (2) "On the Ordering of Sister Constituents in Swedish," by E. Andersson; (3) "What is New…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Conferences, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis