Descriptor
| Discourse Analysis | 5 |
| Grade 4 | 5 |
| Language Patterns | 5 |
| Intermediate Grades | 2 |
| Language Research | 2 |
| Linguistic Theory | 2 |
| Persuasive Discourse | 2 |
| Analysis of Variance | 1 |
| Child Language | 1 |
| Children | 1 |
| Classroom Communication | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Research in the Teaching of… | 1 |
Author
| Anderson, Richard C. | 1 |
| Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed. | 1 |
| Fredrick, Wayne C. | 1 |
| Golub, Lester S. | 1 |
| Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. | 1 |
| Pope, Mike | 1 |
| Siegel, Marjorie | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textAnderson, Richard C.; And Others – 1995
A study investigated properties of children's naturally occurring arguments. The arguments were sampled from transcripts of 20 discussions held in 4 fourth-grade classrooms. The principal findings were that children's arguments are filled with seemingly vague referring expressions; that the arguments sometimes do not contain explicit conclusions;…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4
Peer reviewedPope, Mike – Research in the Teaching of English, 1974
Type of discourse and syntax are related; speech researchers will have to specify type of discourse for their results to be comparable with other studies. (JH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4, Language Patterns
Siegel, Marjorie – 1983
To explore how readers create textual meanings or interpretations from written materials, a study that investigated reading from a semiotic perspective was conducted. The study's design was based on the principle of prior ethnography and employed data collection techniques common to field studies: participant/intervention and interviewing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Enrichment, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Golub, Lester S.; Fredrick, Wayne C. – 1971
An attempt was made to measure the language behavior of students in the upper elementary grades. The procedures and results of research in the following five areas are described in this report: (1) Relationship between the Linguistic Ability Test and the written discourse of fourth and sixth graders; (2) Comparisons of the discourse of fourth and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Color, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
