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Abalkheel, Albatool; Brandenburg, Tara – English Language Teaching, 2020
Many language teachers spend countless hours correcting student writing in hopes of improvement in accuracy, but as of yet, there has been little consensus regarding the efficacy of written corrective feedback (CF) or the type of CF that is most efficient. Although many studies have been conducted on the topic, conflicting results have arisen. In…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Written Language, Feedback (Response), Educational Research
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Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff – Language Testing, 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Inferences
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Carpenter, Sandra; Delugach, Harry; Etzkorn, Letha; Utley, Dawn – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Educators aspire to use the most effective teaching materials possible. Their choices, ideally, should be informed by empirical evidence on how materials they use can affect students' outcomes or performance, particularly their post-instruction performance or application. The current research tested the extent to which voice (active vs. passive)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Verbal Communication, Oral Language
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Foley, Louis – Reading Horizons, 1974
Discusses the use of split infinitives in written language and suggests a compromise rule. (RB)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Bowers, Thomas A.; And Others – 1975
With increasing enrollments in journalism, many journalism instructors contend that problems of spelling, grammar, usage, and punctuation are particularly acute. Some of the questions raised at recent gatherings include: Are formal rules of English grammar dying? Is proper punctuation mere pedantry? What can journalism schools do about grammar and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education, Journalism
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Watt, W. C. – Visible Language, 1975
Examines two versions of the alphabet to show how psychological evidence indicates that grammar is best which best approximates the system people have in their heads. (RB)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Gascon, Christopher D. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
The Spanish psychological verb construction seems to be especially difficult for native English-speaking learners to acquire. Since some of the most common Spanish psych verbs, such as "gustar" (to please) and "encantar" (to delight), require a grammatical structure that is different from that of the English verbs frequently…
Descriptors: English, Error Patterns, Grammar, Higher Education
Yang, Yi – 2001
This paper discusses one Chinese graduate student's experience with English writing. Through a literature review and personal interviews with other Chinese students, the paper explores the differences between Chinese and English writing. It summarizes the literature on differences between Chinese and English writing conventions in ideological and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Duncan, Annelise M. – 1991
Of all the language skills, writing is the most difficult challenge for language teachers because students have less experience with written expression. Stimulated by audio-visual materials throughout their lives, students are novices in the discipline of writing. Making writing an ongoing part of foreign language acquisition from the first day in…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, German, Grammar, Higher Education
Frisof, Kenneth B.; Moseley, James L. – 1982
The prevalence of writing errors made by third-year medical students from the class of 1981 at a large midwestern medical school was studied. The papers of 253 students taking family medicine were evaluated for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Four types of grammar errors and seven punctuation errors were analyzed, and each word…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Higher Education
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Harvey, Keith; Yuill, Deborah – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Presents an account of a study of the role played by a dictionary in the completion of written (encoding) tasks by students of English as a foreign language. The study uses an introspective methodology based on the completion of flowcharts. Results indicate the importance of information on spelling and meanings and the neglect of coded syntactic…
Descriptors: College Students, Consonants, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
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Garrett, Peter; Austin, Christopher – Language Awareness, 1993
The origins of the English Genitive Apostrophe (EGA) are relatively recent, and considerable variation in its use by native speakers is evident. A study of 45 undergraduates/postgraduates suggests overall that there continues to be a lack of accord between usage of and prescriptive rules for EGA. (Contains 37 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Gilsdorf, Jeanette; Leonard, Don – Journal of Business Communication, 2001
Investigates whether business executives and business communication academics were bothered by examples of perceived errors in grammar or usage. Finds usage elements that troubled readers most were basic sentence-structure errors (run-ons, fragments, nonparallel structure, and danglers); several usage errors may be in transition to acceptability;…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education Teachers, Business English, Corporations
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Campbell, Stuart J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1986
Investigates why graduates of Arabic courses in English-speaking countries are so few in number and why they so often compare poorly in spoken language performance with graduates of other language courses. The most important factor in this phenomenom is the gap that separates written Arabic from spoken Arabic. (SED)
Descriptors: Arabic, Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects
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Jacobs, Gabriel; Rodgers, Catherine – CALICO Journal, 1999
Discusses the use of a French computerized grammar checker as a learning and teaching resource. Presents the results of a controlled series of experiments in which groups of students were given the task of correcting French texts containing grammatical, lexical, and orthographical errors using an on-screen grammar checker or grammar books and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dictionaries
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