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Adams, Beverly Colwell; Wade, Melissa M. – 1996
A study investigated whether children and adolescents use commas and the principle of Late Closure to guide sentence parsing decisions as adults do in processing syntactically ambiguous sentences. The study consisted of three experiments, conducted similarly but with different subject groups: 24 university students; 24 fourth-graders; and 19…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Ambiguity
Noor, Hashim H. – 1996
Based on a review of research, the most common syntactic errors made by native Arabic-speaking learners of English as a second language are discussed. Seven categories of error are distinguished and described: verbal errors (use of tense, phase, aspect, voice, verb formation, concord, finite/non-finite verbs); relative clauses (interlingual and…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Arabic, Conjunctions, Determiners (Languages)
Ediger, Marlow – 1998
Pupils need to study grammar that is useful and functional. How much stress should the language arts place upon pupils understanding the eight parts of speech in traditional grammar? Good teaching emphasizes proceeding from the concrete to the semi-concrete in teaching-learning situations, then the abstract phase of learning needs to be…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, English Curriculum
Coots, James H. – 1982
A large segment of poor readers in elementary school do not supply prosodic features to print; in other words, they do not use pauses, changes in pitch, or differences in emphasis to show their comprehension. Two methods that help children to supply reading intonation involve using phrasally segmented texts and teacher modeling of the correct…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Intonation
Hocker, Gail T. – 1980
One of two books prepared for high school level correspondence students in Alaska, this collection of lesson plans stresses problem areas in English grammar. Topics covered in the plans are (1) verbs and their subjects; (2) capitalization; (3) end punctuation; (4) adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases; (5) comparative and superlative…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Correspondence Study, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
Dodd, William M. – 1984
A study examined the effect of five types of sentence faults on the method of information processing, recall ability, confidence rating, and comprehensibility rating of college freshman English students. The control text consisted of five passages and the accompanying comprehension questions exactly as they appear on the multiple choice Georgia…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Wilkinson, Andrew – Elementary English, 1974
Descriptors: Early Experience, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Rudin, Catherine – 1987
An analysis of languages with multiple fronting of WH words (who, what, whom, etc.) looks in detail at Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Bulgarian (Slavic languages), and Romanian (a Romance language). In spite of their superficial similarity, the Slavic and East European languages that normally put all WH words at the beginning of clauses fall into…
Descriptors: Bulgarian, Contrastive Linguistics, Czech, Language Classification
Johannesson, Nils-Lennart – 1984
John Searle's treatment of declarations in his (1976) classification of speech acts is examined. Some acts that are classified as declarations by that theorist, especially certain ones relating to religious rituals and literary usage, do not fit the definition of that class and should be reclassified, either in another one of Searle's classes…
Descriptors: Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, European History, Language Patterns
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1985
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Contrastive Patholinguistics: The Acquisition of English Grammatical Morphemes by German Dyslexics in a Foreign-Language Teaching Context" (Udo O. H. Jung); "Contrastive Pragmatics" (Marie-Louise Liebe-Harkort); "On Questions in English and Swedish" (Kay Wikberg); "On…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dyslexia, English, German
Turner, Susan D. – 1987
A longitudinal study of advanced senior high students' writing abilities indicates that, over a three-year period, students exhibit significantly improved writing skills. Follow a continuous program of writing enhancement, graduating seniors exit the system with reasonable or better than reasonable skills in essay organization, sentence formation,…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Essays, Grade 10, Grade 12
Stephenson, Robert S.; Giacoboni, Kathryn N. – 1988
This study compares the results of an indirect measure of writing ability, the Florida State Student Assessment Test, Part I (SSAT-I), and the Production Writing Assessment (PWA). Both instruments were administered to 10th graders in Dade County (Florida) during the spring of 1987. The SSAT-I is an untimed test containing a section indirectly…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Essay Tests, Grade 10, Grammar
MacDonald, Maryellen C. – 1987
A study investigated differential processing of adjectival and verbal passives in English, and the implications for linguistic theory. The subjects, 30 native-English-speaking college students, were presented with word triples in which one member was an adjective, one an adjectival passive, and one a verbal passive, and with three two-sentence…
Descriptors: Adjectives, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1989
This guide, developed by educators and revised by Louisiana teachers and curriculum specialists, provides Louisiana educators with information regarding assessment strategies used on the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) Grade 11 Test as well as suggested instructional approaches for enhancing student proficiency in the skill areas…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Grade 11
Lykke, Miriam C. – 1987
A guide to enhancing classroom communication with limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in sheltered English includes ideas for planning and presenting lessons. It gives suggestions for the use of gestures, language style, length of sentence, presentation of the main concept and supporting details, essential vocabulary, the organization of…
Descriptors: Body Language, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Grading