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Ünal, Menderes; Yagci, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of the study is to identify students' misuse of language in the frame of information and communication technologies with their self-evaluation and determine the recommendations to find out ways to overcome misuse of the Turkish language. In the study, among the qualitative research methods the case study was used. University students were…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Language Usage, Turkish, Telecommunications
Woodley, Marie-Paule – 1987
The so-called deviant character of a set of non-native texts is examined by looking closely at how sentence syntax realizes and affects textual functions. Two broad groups of syntactic phenomena are considered: subordination and "marked structures," such as passives and clefts. Emphasis in this paper is on the following four ways in which syntax…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, French
Evertts, Eldonna L. – 1975
To write well is not a singular ability; it utilizes critical thinking, creativity, and a feeling for language. An examination of a number of pieces of writing by elementary school pupils shows that some are highly imaginative while others are informative reports, simple statements of events, colorful descriptions, or various forms of poetry.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Dubois, Betty Lou – 1974
This paper explores the meanings and distribution of the perfect in contemporary American English prose, with reference to problems encountered in teaching English as a second language. The English perfect comprises forms traditionally called present perfect tense, past perfect tense, and perfects of the infinitive, gerund and present participle.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Kessler, Carolyn; Quinn, Mary Ellen – 1977
This study examined the relationships between cognitive development, language acquisition, and socioeconomic class, as manifested in children's written language. Four classes of sixth-grade students participated in the investigation, a control class and an experimental class from each of two socioeconomic environments (low and high). The treatment…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Minkoff, Harvey – 1974
Although speech and writing both contain functional varieties as well as many similar mechanical aspects, mature writing contains a number of conventions (words, idioms, constructions) rarely found in mainstream native speech. Among areas of contrast are vocabulary, syntactic constructions--especially punctuation--and the more complex use of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English Curriculum, Literature Appreciation, Punctuation
Heller, Mary F. – 1980
A study investigated the reading comprehension of 34 college freshmen in relation to the presence of 20 syntactic elements of written language in their expository writing. Language samples included one silent reading comprehension test that identified "high" and "low" readers and two expository in-class themes, one developed…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Correlation, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Birkenmayer, Sigmund S. – 1975
Both spoken and written Polish have undergone profound changes during the past twenty-eight years. The increasing urbanization of Polish culture and the forced change in Polish society are the main factors influencing the change in the language. Indirect evidence of changes which have occurred in the vocabulary and idioms of spoken Polish in the…
Descriptors: Idioms, Language Research, Language Usage, Language Variation
Manzo, Anthony V.; Sherk, John K., Jr. – 1975
Syntax, or, loosely, sentence structure, is a major linguistic variable influencing the comprehensibility of every written sentence. This paper attempts to set forth the relationship between elements of syntax and reading comprehension as the classroom teacher might see them, and to propose a strategy, the Complete Linguistic Elements Paradigm…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Linguistics, Reading Comprehension
Little, Peter S. – 1975
This study questions the developmental nature of the ability to understand syntactic structures. An exploration is made of the possibility of learning more about reading comprehension and readability by examining responses made to sentences described by transformational grammarians as structurally ambiguous. A group of fifth grade students were…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Psycholinguistics, Readability, Reading Achievement
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1979
In recent years, T-unit analysis has been applied in second language research to characterize the syntactic nature of linguistic input and to assess the syntactic maturity of the learners' written production. This measure has been seen to provide an objective and reliable method of determining the overall complexity of language samples. However,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Styles
Bratcher-Hoskins, Suzanne – 1984
Reading and writing are both creative acts of communication that use written language as a vehicle for meaning. A strong theoretical case for teaching the two processes concurrently can be built by examining points of contact between reading and writing. One such point is context concerns. The Communication Triangle model (author/audience/…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Enkvist, Nils Erik; Kohonen, Viljo – 1976
This volume contains papers presented in connection with a symposium held in 1975 and sponsored by Abo Akademi, for the purpose of discussing ongoing research in word-order studies. Papers include: (1) a prolegomena by N.E. Enkvist; (2) "On the Ordering of Sister Constituents in Swedish," by E. Andersson; (3) "What is New…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Conferences, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Rodrigues, Raymond J. – 1974
In comparing the written and oral English syntax of Mexican-American bilingual and Anglo-American monolingual students, this study sought to learn specifically whether these two groups of students represent the same speech population in English syntactic use. A total of 70 subjects were randomly selected for the four groups (bilingual and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage
Chesnick, M. A.; And Others – 1992
This study investigated the development of oral metalinguistic abilities in 140 children (ages 5-12) with oral language or reading impairments. The study focused on determining the difficulties that children with these different types of problems have at different ages in the elementary school years and determining how metalinguistic abilities…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
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