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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 reviewedMeade, Richard A.; Haynes, Elizabeth A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Most students seem not to have learned the transformational grammar their teachers said had been taught.
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grade 8, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedBraun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Language Research
Peer reviewedEndicott, Anthony L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedQuisenberry, Nancy Lou Forbes – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Language, Language Learning Levels, Language Research, Linguistic Performance
Peer reviewedBeaver, Joseph C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1968
A knowledge of transformational grammar may shed considerable light on a wide variety of ready "lapses." A skillful teacher who understands the origin of these errors may deal with them more effectively than in the past. This thesis is based on the quite widely accepted hypothesis that the grammar of the language has rules which operate in a…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Oral Reading, Reading Failure
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
Peer reviewedGowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1972
Article relates a language research study that found that children have not thoroughly mastered the passive transformation by the end of the first grade. (Author/ML)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education, Language Research, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Roy C.; King, F. J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
The attempt to teach deep structure recovery skills to poor readers was unsuccessful, perhaps because of student attitudes. (JH)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Deep Structure, Grade 7, Language Research
