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Direct linkJagaiah, Thilagha; Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Kearns, Devin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Syntactic complexity has been recognized as an important construct in writing research, and for the past five decades, many syntactic complexity measures (SCMs) have been examined in numerous studies. This systematic review is the first study of its kind to synthesize 36 studies spanning from 1970 to 2019 by identifying and cataloging all SCMs…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Writing Evaluation, Literary Genres
Peer reviewedScott, Cheryl M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
The article examines the child's ability to produce complex sentences with sections on a structural framework for complex language (clausal and nonclausal complexity), a developmental perspective (coordination of clauses, subordination of nominal, adverbial, and relative clauses), and applied considerations (evaluating and teaching complex…
Descriptors: Child Development, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Download full textDavison, Alice – 1980
One factor that contributes to the difficulty that a reader may encounter when reading a text is the syntactic complexity of the constructions used in the text. Examples of altered text constructions include the transformations of subjects of subordinate clauses, making them either the subjects or the objects of main clauses. When the conditions…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Language Styles
Bousquet, Robert J. – 1980
Many factors influence the comprehension of a linguistic act by a listener or reader. Some, such as maturity, background, and interests of the decoder are nonlinguistic; others, such as the vocabulary and complexity of the morphological and syntactical structures are linguistic in nature. A review of the literature reveals that while studies have…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Linguistics
Bolden, Bernadine J.; Stoddard, Ann – 1980
This study examined the effect of two ways of question phrasing as related to three styles of expository writing on the test performance of elementary school children. Multiple-choice questions were developed for sets of passages which were written using three different syntactic structures; and which had different levels of difficulty. The…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Kernel Sentences, Multiple Choice Tests
Crowhurst, Marion – 1980
Research on the relationship between syntactic complexity and quality of written composition was reviewed to test the assumption that these two concepts are positively related. The studies reviewed, which have appeared during the past 15 years, fall into two broad categories: (1) intervention studies designed to increase syntactic complexity and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
