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Direct linkStuart, Nichola J.; Connelly, Vincent; Dockrell, Julie E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Verb use and the production of verb argument structure in the written texts of children in elementary school is a key stepping stone towards academic writing success that has remained relatively unexplored and is a notable gap in our understanding of writing development. To evaluate the role of verbs in the written narrative texts of children, we…
Descriptors: Verbs, Academic Language, Written Language, Elementary School Students
Mortensen, Lynne; Smith-Lock, Karen; Nickels, Lyndsey – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This paper examines text structure and patterns of cohesion in stories written by a group of adults with a history of childhood language impairment. The study aimed to extend our knowledge of writing difficulties in this group by building upon a study that examined clause level phenomena (Smith-Lock, Nickels, & Mortensen, this issue). Ten adults…
Descriptors: Adults, Language Impairments, Writing Difficulties, Text Structure
Peer reviewedWard-Lonergan, Jeannene M.; Liles, Betty Z.; Anderson, Angela M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
Verbal-retelling abilities for social-studies lectures were examined in 20 adolescent boys with language-learning disabilities and 29 with normal language abilities. Lectures had either a comparison expository discourse structure or a causation discourse structure. Results indicated that the comparison discourse structure facilitated more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Impairments
