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Peer reviewedFaigley, Lester – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Tentative conclusions were that controlled sentence practice and sentence combining can increase the overall writing effectiveness and syntactic maturity of college students in a single semester. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Peer reviewedElley, W. B.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
A summative evaluation of a Program English curriculum which found that the effects of a study of transformational grammar on the language growth of secondary school students was negligible. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Curriculum, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Roy C.; Smith, William L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Sensitivity to syntactic structure can be increased by direct instruction. (JH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, English Instruction, Grade 9
