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Syntactic Maturity: Assessing Writing Proficiency in a Second Language.
Sharma, Alex – 1979
Hunt and O'Donnell's Aluminum Paragraph was administered to sixty Canadian college students enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. The students were asked to re-write and to improve a paragraph consisting of 32 short, single-clause sentences. The students were identified as low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced in…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries