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Download full textFagan, William T. – 1978
Designed to divide recall protocols for subsequent category analysis, this instrument equates surface syntactic forms with semantic ideas. The instrument defines two types of syntactic proposition--a base syntactic proposition, the simplest independent prediction (structurally) that may be used to convey information, and an alternate syntactic…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Measures (Individuals), Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedLeong, Che Kan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
In this commentary on Linda Siegel's paper (EC221505), it is argued that a minimum level of general ability is needed for successful reading performance. Above this threshold other kinds of intelligence are required and more important is the contribution of verbal efficiency, which is predicated on the covariance of phonology, morphology, and…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification, Intelligence Quotient
Peer reviewedSmith, Judith; Elkins, John – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1992
A study found that both paradigmatic and syntagmatic aspects of text were important for signifying meaning of text in the reading comprehension of 102 Australian students at 3 age levels (10, 12, and 14 years). Underlying comprehension problems was a lack of prior experience of text topics. Reading preparation through developing shared meanings is…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Coherence, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedScott, Cheryl M.; Stokes, Sharon L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This article identifies sources of information about syntactic ability of school-age children and adolescents from language samples (spoken and written) and standardized language tests. Language samples yield information on sentence length, clause density, and use of higher level discourse-motivated structures. Syntactic subtests from three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Kretschmer, Richard R., Jr., Ed.; Kretschmer, Laura W., Ed. – Journal of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, 1988
This monograph supplement to "The Journal of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology" contains eight papers on issues and strategies for communication assessment of hearing-impaired children, not only in the area of interpersonal communication, but in classroom and print discourse as well. Titles and authors of the papers are as follows:…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedAbbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The six titles deal with the following topics: (1) the role of adversative connectives in helping good and poor readers to integrate textual information; (2) trends in written products of general writing, basic writing, and basic…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Annotated Bibliographies, Critical Thinking, Doctoral Dissertations
