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Peer reviewedAristides – American Scholar, 1976
A nation's language is on the order of a natural resource--subject, like the other, to depletion, the ravages of pollution, thoughtless neglect. Suggests the development of an American Academy like unto the French Academy which would diligently establish "sure rules to our language, rendering it pure, eloquent, and capable of treating the arts and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Research
Download full textJurgens, Sister Jeanne Marie; Griffin, William J. – 1970
Seven objective measures of language production--number of words, T-units, subordinate clauses, clauses of all types, words per clause, words per T-unit, and clauses per T-unit--were applied to 269 compositions written by seventh, ninth, and 11th graders to test assumptions about the relationships between quality of writing and students' age and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Language Patterns
Tauli, Valter – 1968
Although technical and social engineering and planning have made tremendous progress, an almost prescientific attitude regarding language planning still prevails in some linguistic circles. (Language planning is defined here as the "methodical activity of regulating and improving existing languages or creating new common regional, national or…
Descriptors: Dialects, Diglossia, Evaluation Criteria, Graphemes
