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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
Peer reviewedMiranda, Elisabeth A.; McCabe, Allysa; Bliss, Lynn S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Investigates the discourse coherence of school-aged children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Children with SLI were found to be significantly impaired in the areas of topic maintenance, event sequencing, explicitness, conjunctive cohesion, and fluency. Theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed. (Author/ER)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 3, Grammar, Language Acquisition
