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Peer reviewedHarris, Jeanette – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1985
By focusing their attention closely on a written text, cloze passages help students learn more about how language works--the interaction of vocabulary and syntax, the influence of diction on style, the important grammatical relationships between words in a sentence, and the logical relationships between sentences in a paragraph. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Higher Education, Language Processing
Peer reviewedBloom, Ronald J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines the use and understanding of concordant and discordant adverbial conjuncts in the latter part of the life span. Young, middle-aged, and elderly adults, matched for education level, were studied. Results indicate a significant decline in processing adverbial conjuncts in the elderly, due to a deficit in linguistic processing rather than a…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Analysis of Variance
