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Slager, William R.; Major, Diana – English Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Deep Structure, English Instruction, Secondary Education
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1973
Based on the assumption that awareness of certain aspects of underlying structure is basic to comprehending the meaning of a sentence, the module described in this report (English Sentence Structure: Programmed Exercises) is designed to increase the learner's awareness of English syntactic structure. The materials follow a programmed format with…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English Instruction, Perception, Programed Instructional Materials

O'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
Lemke, Alan – 1977
Typically, teachers approach ambiguity in student writing by suggesting that students focus on diction, syntax, and writing format; however, the works of modernists (including T.S. Eliot, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx, and Pablo Picasso) suggest the importance of conceptions of semantic clarity. Transformational models for syntactic elements in…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Deep Structure, English Instruction, Higher Education
Mayher, John Sawyer – 1968
Transformational grammar offers the most adequate system by which to meet the goal of grammar instruction, which is to increase the student's understanding of the nature of language. This grammar attempts to explain the mental processes underlying the production and understanding of sentences, to describe linguistic competence, to construct…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Educational Objectives, English Instruction, Generative Grammar