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Peer reviewedHorn, Vivian – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Skills
Sharwood-Smith, Michael – RELC Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Download full textKaplan, Robert B. – English Record, 1971
The process of constructing connected discourse varies just as language structure itself varies from one language to another. Different languages combine thoughts in different ways. For the advanced level student of English as a second language, composition instruction is a critical area and should not be left to the typical freshman composition…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1976
The present study reports on exploratory research to determine whether the Aluminum Paragraph, a sentence-combining exercise developed by O'Donnell (Hunt, 1970) to measure the development of syntactic complexity in the writing of native speakers of English, can also serve as a measure of the active syntactic proficiency of learners of English as a…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
