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Rodgers, Molly; Zimmer, Linda M. – 1990
Intended for use by students at any level above grade 2, this practice book helps students recognize and correct sentence fragments, edit sentences for subject-verb agreement, use nouns and pronouns correctly, use present and past tense, and capitalize and punctuate sentences and abbreviations. The book also introduces students to the correct…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Editing, Elementary Education, English
Jordan, Edwina – 1990
Most students today have been reared on television and have had only slight brushes with the parts of grammar. Nevertheless, a variety of sentence pattern exercises and sentence combining lessons based on the students' own writing can be used to augment, challenge and improve students' writing skills and vocabulary. In the first exercise, students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation
Perkins, Kyle; Duncan, Ann – 1988
An item discriminability study of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills Language Skills tests identified test items that are robust discriminators, psychometrically capable of separating low scorers from higher scorers in the language tests battery. The analysis was conducted by calculating a point-biserial correlation for each item on the four language…
Descriptors: Correlation, Item Analysis, Language Skills, Language Tests

Thao, Cheu; Robson, Barbara – 1982
The Mhong Language Council's 1982 conference had as its objectives: (1) a compromise spelling system to accommodate both White and Blue Mhong pronunciation; (2) simplification of the current Mhong spelling system; (3) review of approaches to the expression of foreign concepts in Mhong; and (4) adoption of capitalization and punctuation conventions…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Language Planning, Language Variation, Linguistic Borrowing

Stalker, James C. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialects, English Instruction, Graphemes
Whalen, Thomas H. – Res Teach Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), English Instruction, Grammar, Language Instruction
Gibson, Walker – 1978
Readers are "dumb" because they are not privy to the mind and intentions of the writer; and the failure of the unsuccessful writer is a failure to forecast what it is going to be like to be a dumb reader of the document. Sample sentences from students' writing illustrate the following types of writing problems, which force the reader to examine…
Descriptors: Audiences, Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Higher Education
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1975
This report, part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey, describes one facet of the national assessment of writing. The students--9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds who constitute the sample for the NAEP studies--were told to use their best writing but were not told that their papers would be examined for mechanical correctness.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Longitudinal Studies, Measurement Instruments
Long, Kathryn Louise – 1970
The purposes of this study were to: (1) investigate the nature and extent of specific teaching, and the grade placement of language skills in primary grades; and (2) investigate experimentally the validity, reliability, and practicality of several different methods for measuring achievement in capitalization and punctuation in Grade 2. Phase I…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Grade 2
Packman, Linda Arlene – 1971
Some oral reading errors were found to be more significant than others in evaluating a pupil's performance in reading at six comprehension levels. The percentage of seven kinds of errors (pronunciation, mispronunciation, omission, substitution, addition, repetition, and punctuation) was computed to the levels of reading comprehension for good,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Error Patterns, Grade 4, Oral Reading
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
This curriculum unit, developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, is intended for use with fifth and sixth graders as a guide for writing. Included are discussions of the various marks of punctuation and the rules for using them, the use of capitals, writing dialog and paragraphs, and the mechanics of letter writing. The guide can be used…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, Grade 5

Pons-Ridler, Suzanne – French Review, 1987
Recent changes in French grammatical and spelling conventions not generally known in North America are outlined, including instances of gender and number agreement, plurals of hyphenated words, articles, numerical adjectives, indefinites, verb forms, and accent marks. (MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, French, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability

Collett, John – CALICO Journal, 1986
The need to include an audio component in computer-assisted instruction in French is discussed and an attempted solution is described in terms of a suite of programs designed to facilitate the creation and use of dictation practice materials. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Redman, Tim; And Others – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1984
Describes background, software development, and the Write-Well computer assisted instruction series used in a study at Illinois Institute of Technology. Composition students were divided into two groups, with one practicing comma usage with computer assisted instruction and another using textbooks. Results indicate computer assisted instruction…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Design
Prado, Eduardo – Yelmo, 1976
This article discusses punctuation in Spanish, specifically rules for the use of the comma, the colon, and the semi-colon. The rules for the placement of prosodic and orthographic stress are also discussed. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Usage