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The Relationship of the "Maze" to Language Planning and Production.
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Fagan, William T. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Investigates the relationships between the occurrence of mazes (garbles, word tangles, or false starts), sentence complexity, and the use of connectives in 20 fifth-grade students. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 5
Talk and Doubletalk: The Development of Metacommunication Knowledge about Oral Language.
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Green, Michael – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
Three levels of metacommunication knowledge and five factors that influence the understanding of speaker meaning in oral language were identified in pilot interviews with children and adolescents. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Sex Differences in Syntax and Usage in Oral and Written Language.
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Price, Gayle B.; Graves, Richard L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
A study of the language usage of 80 middle school students revealed no significant difference between the sexes on any measure of syntactic maturity; however, boys deviated from standard usage somewhat more frequently than did girls, and boys produced more words in oral language while girls produced more words in written language. (ET)
Descriptors: Females, Language Fluency, Language Research, Language Skills
Bilingual and Monolingual English Syntax on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
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Rodrigues, Raymond J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
Reports on a study of the oral and written English syntax of both Gaelic/English bilingual and English monolingual fourth- and ninth-grade students on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Concludes that the use of English syntax by bilingual speakers was equal to or (in one measure) superior to that of monolingual speakers. (ET)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis