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Rzepka, Nathalie; Müller, Hans-Georg; Simbeck, Katharina – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
The ability to spell correctly is a fundamental skill for participating in society and engaging in professional work. In the German language, the capitalization of nouns and proper names presents major difficulties for both native and nonnative learners, since the definition of what is a noun varies according to one's linguistic perspective. In…
Descriptors: Spelling, German, Punctuation, Nouns
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Jin, Tan; Lu, Xiaofei; Ni, Jing – Modern Language Journal, 2020
An extensive body of research has investigated the role of syntactic complexity in gauging the linguistic complexity of reading texts, particularly for the purpose of determining their grade appropriateness. However, little such research has focused on adapted teaching materials for English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts, and to date there…
Descriptors: Syntax, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Materials
Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Christ, Theodore J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Reading comprehension is multidimensional and complex. The persistent challenges children, adolescents, and even adults face with reading comprehension call for concerted efforts to develop assessments that help identify sources of difficulties and to design instructional approaches to prevent or ameliorate these difficulties. Doing so requires…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Reading Processes
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Seidenberg, Pearl L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
The author supports the theory that for some disabled readers the nature of the form-schema (syntatic expectations) they make use of in processing text does not result in stable comprehension because their recognition strategies are linked to their past experience in constructing meaning from speech. Implications for instruction are discussed.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension
Lamy, Andre; Laitenberger, Heide – Francais dans le Monde, 1976
Proposes games which may be used to teach French phonology, morphology, and syntax. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, French
Debyser, Francis; Laitenberger, Heide – Francais dans le Monde, 1976
Proposes language games for learning French which stress creativity. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creativity, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nagy, William E.; McClure, Erica F.; Montserrat, Mir – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Investigates the effects of Spanish-English bilinguals' first-language syntactic knowledge on the guesses they make about the meanings of new words encountered in English contexts. Examines a particular type of transfer to understand the process of vocabulary acquisition in second-language readers. (48 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Syamala, V. – 1991
The process of acquisition of three syntactic structures in Engish (i.e., yes-no questions, wh-questions, and negation) was studied. The subjects were 30 school children whose native language as well as medium of instruction was Malayalam, one of the four dominant Dravidian languages. The children were in the second, fourth, and sixth year of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Bos, Candace S.; Anders, Patricia L. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1992
The Interactive Teaching Project was designed to test an instructional model to help students with learning disabilities comprehend content area concepts. This paper describes the theoretical model and the effective interactive teaching and learning strategies used, including semantic feature analysis, semantic mapping, and semantic/syntactic…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Content Area Reading
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Blair, Teresa K.; Crump, W. Donald – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1984
The effect of two discourse modes--description and argumentation--on the syntactic complexity of written expression of 54 learning disabled boys in grades 6, 8, and 10 was examined. Among many results was that the simple sentence was used most in the descriptive mode. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Males, Sentences
Malcolm, Ian G. – 2002
This paper discusses Aboriginal English speakers in Australia, noting the importance of recognizing prior learning and of recognizing Aboriginal English within the context of programs that understand the particular areas where Aboriginal English speakers need support to achieve outcomes in standard English. It defines recognition of prior learning…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, English
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Morris, Nancy T.; Crump, W. Donald – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1982
Written language development of learning disabled (LD) and non-LD students at four age levels (9 through 15) was examined on measures of syntax and vocabulary. Seemingly conflicting evidence on syntactic development may have reflected the nature of the measure used. LD students' writing showed a smaller variety of word types. (CL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Syntax
Simms, Rochelle B.; Crump, W. Donald – 1980
The study compared the language development of 72 learning disabled (LD) and 72 normal students at intermediate and secondary age levels (9-12 and 12-15 years of age). Ss were asked to respond to questions after viewing two films, and oral language samples were tape recorded and analyzed to examine syntactic and vocabulary development. Results…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities
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Roth, Froma P.; Spekman, Nancy J. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
An analysis of syntactic complexity was performed on spontaneously generated oral stories obtained from 93 learning disabled (LD) and normally achieving (NA) students at age levels from 8 through 13 years. Results indicated almost identical rates of correct usage and similar patterns of usage between LD and NA subjects on all measures. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
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Guthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Discusses strategies involved in learning the languages used in technical areas. (FL)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Learning Strategies
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