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Flick, William C. – 1977
This paper describes an experiment in which the Developmental Sentence Scoring procedure, which has been used successfully for scoring sentence complexity in child language, was examined for its usefulness when applied to adult learners of English as a Second Language. The technique is based upon a developmental scale of syntax acquisition within…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar
