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Direct linkCastroviejo, Elena; Hernández-Conde, José V.; Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra; Ponciano, Marta; Vicente, Agustín – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctions between two different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aim was to find out when the distinction between generic statements (GS) such as "Tigers have stripes" and universally quantified statements (UQS) such as "All tigers have…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Age Groups, Accuracy, Semantics
Download full textMathura, Shivona; Zulu, Free-Queen B. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2021
Background: English Second Language (ESL) learners have difficulty constructing sentences due to internalising information in their home language and thereafter translating it into English. Learners who have difficulty speaking English generally encounter problems writing it, which hampers their creative writing ability. Objectives: The purpose of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
McCutchen, Deborah; Stull, Sara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
This study examined the relationship between children's morphological awareness and their ability to produce accurate morphological derivations in writing. Fifth-grade US students (n = 175) completed two writing tasks that invited or required morphological manipulation of words. We examined both accuracy and error, specifically errors in…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Writing (Composition)
Bezemer, Jeff – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2007
This article explores the attribution of linguistic resources to multilingual students in a primary school in the Netherlands. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a regular, multicultural classroom, it describes patterns of attribution emerging from observations of classroom activities and interviews with the teacher. Its focus is on the…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Multilingualism
Robertson, Isobel – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
A pilot study provided insight into difficulties experienced by 143 Yr. 2 B.Ed. students in Scotland, writing in a science education context. In studying writing, an 'academic literacies' approach was adopted, focusing on social aspects in addition to identifying flaws. In over 20% of assignments, tutors' assessments identified a need to structure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments
Simpson, JoEllen M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2004
The present study examines 20 writing samples in English and Spanish selected from portfolios of first grade children at a bilingual school in Ecuador. Based on earlier findings that paragraphs composed in English and Spanish by children, adolescents and adults are different (Lux & Grabe, 1991; Montano-Harmon, 1991; Reid, 1990; Reppen &…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Error Patterns, Sentence Structure
