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Telaumbanua, Yohannes; Nurmalina; Yalmiadi; Masrul – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The syntactic complexities of English sentence structures induced the Indonesian students' sentence-level accuracies blurred. Reciprocally, the meanings conveyed are left hanging. The readers are increasingly at sixes and sevens. The Sentence Crimes were, therefore, the major essences of diagnosing the students' sentence-level inaccuracies in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sentences, Accuracy, Sentence Structure
Lieber, Paula E. – 1981
Superordinates in Halliday and Hasan's analysis of cohesion are lexical items which refer to preceding terms, ideas, or actions, or to whole stretches of discourse, by naming a more inclusive category or class within which the antecedent is included. In written texts the interrelationships between superordinates and more specific terms, or…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Expository Writing
Sharma, Alex – 1979
Hunt and O'Donnell's Aluminum Paragraph was administered to sixty Canadian college students enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. The students were asked to re-write and to improve a paragraph consisting of 32 short, single-clause sentences. The students were identified as low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced in…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries
Yorkey, Richard – 1974
This paper first explains the diversity of the Arab World, the unifying force of Classical Arabic, and that Modern Standard Arabic, less complicated in structure and less ornate in rhetoric, is sufficiently Different from colloquial dialects to require considerable instruction in schools. For contrastive analysis to be useful as a basis for EFL…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, English (Second Language)
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm – 1965
This textbook attempts to augment the general handbook information needed in any composition class with specific information that the non-native speaker needs, for example, the distribution of determiners with the various noun subclasses, and the syntactical relationship of subordinator to subordinate clause; and to apply the techniques and…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English, English (Second Language), Essays
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1976
The present study reports on exploratory research to determine whether the Aluminum Paragraph, a sentence-combining exercise developed by O'Donnell (Hunt, 1970) to measure the development of syntactic complexity in the writing of native speakers of English, can also serve as a measure of the active syntactic proficiency of learners of English as a…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
In a written discourse consisting of a string of "psychological paragraphs," there is in each such psychological paraqraph a "head" structure containing the topic which derives from the deep structure of the discourse. That "head" assertion differs from all other assertions in the psychological paragraph in that it carries new information. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Bander, Robert G. – 1971
This book has been written to help improve the composition skills of students of English as a second language or second dialect. It has been planned for students at the advanced secondary, college, and university levels who have had some previous training in English vocabulary and grammar; it is particularly suited for a one-semester course for…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Essays