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Analysis of Syntax of Six-, Seven-, and Eight-Year-Old Children
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Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Data in this study showed significant linguistic differences between six- and seven-year-olds and a leveling-off between the seven- and eight-year-olds. (DD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Syntactic Maturity of Students' Oral Paraphrases
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Pope, Mike – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Found that older students speak in a more mature manner than younger ones when presented with paraphrasing tasks. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Maturation
The Spoken English of Spanish-speaking Pupils in a Bilingual and Monolingual School Setting: An Analysis of Syntactic Development. Technical Report No. 40.
Ramirez, Arnulfo G. – 1974
The purposes of this study were: (1) to describe the developmental trends in the control of spoken English grammatical constructions produced by Spanish-speaking Mexican-American schoolchildren learning English in the elementary grades, and (2) on the basis of this description to assess the comparative development of English structures in pupils…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Child Language, Elementary Education