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Direct linkGarraffa, Maria; Smart, Francesca; Obregón, Mateo – Language Learning and Development, 2021
The present study investigated the effect of classroom-based syntactic training on children's abilities to produce passive sentences. Thirty-three monolingual English children (mean age 5;2), were involved in passive-voice training based on storytelling sessions within a priming design. The training was delivered in a classroom setting, with two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, English, Monolingualism
Download full textKidder, Carole L.; Golub, Lester S. – 1974
Recent research in syntactic complexity has described and specified structural characteristics that distinguish levels of syntactic density. A computer program, written in Programmer Language I for the IBM 370 at Pennsylvania State University, has been developed to apply a syntactic density formula to samples of natural language and provide a…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Difficulty Level, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students
Golub, Lester S.; Kidder, Carole – Elementary English, 1974
A syntactic density instrument was devised to determine how children use specific syntactic structures in their oral and written language. (JH)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedGlazer, Susan Mandel – Reading Teacher, 1974
Reviews research using sentence length as a factor in predicting readability and discusses the possibility of sentence complexity as a more accurate variable. (TO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Readability
