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Perkins, Kyle; And Others – 1984
A study of predictors of reading comprehension in English as a second language had as subjects 33 adult students in full-time intensive English classes at the intermediate and advanced levels of reading. Each was tested with an oral and a written language inventory, and each response was recorded as syntagmatic or paradigmatic. Other tests…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Intelligence Tests
Moore, Michael; Goldstein, Zahava – 1986
A study investigated the use of a mathematical model to predict individuals' total active Hebrew vocabulary from samples of their written and spoken language. The model is based on a generalized inverse Gaussian distribution. The subjects were Israeli junior high school students from both high and low socioeconomic groups. Hebrew language samples…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Grade 8