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Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
The experimental evidence on the value of a sentence-combining approach to improving reading comprehension is still sparse, but the possibilities seem rich.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
MILLER, BARBARA D.; NEY, JAMES W. – 1967
BELIEVING FORMAL WRITTEN ENGLISH TO BE A "FOREIGN LANGUAGE" TO MOST AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS USED THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION TO PROMOTE WRITING IMPROVEMENT IN FOURTH-GRADERS. TWO RANDOMLY-SELECTED CLASSES OF STUDENTS OF AVERAGE ABILITY COMPOSED THE STUDY POPULATION--ONE CLASS FOR THE EXPERIMENT,…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 4
Pedersen, Elray L. – 1978
A total of 113 seventh grade students participated in a study to test the effectiveness of sentence combining practice as a means to significantly improve syntactic and semantic fluency in student writing. Methods included pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest t-unit analyses of syntactic fluency, and four pretest and posttest analyses of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 7, Language Acquisition
