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Download full textWiddowson, H. G. – 1990
Among the features characterizing human language is creativity, the ability to produce an infinite number of sentences with a finite number of rules. What is expected of creativity is non-conformity, violation of rules, and challenges to accepted convention. Words may be used to activate possible contexts. Most textbook sentence examples do not…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedLangford, J.; Holmes, V. M. – Cognition, 1979
Two experiments indicated that sentence verification times were significantly longer when a discrepancy between target sentence and context was in the syntactic presupposition, rather than in the assertion. Findings are best explained by a structural hypothesis, not by strategies designed to locate given and new information. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedPaltridge, Brian – Applied Linguistics, 1994
Several examples of genre analysis are examined to identify criteria employed for the identification of textual boundaries. The conclusion is that there are nonlinguistic reasons for generic staging in texts and that the search for structural divisions is a search for cognitive boundaries in terms of convention, appropriacy, and content. (42…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Bensoussan, Marsha – 1984
A study investigating the influence of certain features of cohesion and coherence on Israeli college students' difficulty in reading English expository texts examined the reader's ability to understand sequences of propositions and familiarity with markers of cohesion. Three methods were used to investigate the problem: application of a…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, College Freshmen
Peer reviewedWhite, Lydia; And Others – Language Learning, 1997
Studies on second-language acquisition of reflexives have experienced difficulties assessing learners' knowledge of the binding principles because of problems associated with ambiguous sentences where there is more than one antecedent for a reflexive. In this study, English-as-a-Second-Language students were tested using a variety of sentence…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
