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The Use of Narrative Analysis as a Research and Evaluation Method of Atypical Language: The Case of Deaf Writing
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Koutsoubou, M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
The present paper argues the use of "narratives" as the most appropriate evaluation method in cases of atypical language production. Narrative as a genre has an ecological validity that other genres used in language research and evaluation do not have. Narratives develop naturally from very early, they are independent of education and academic…
Descriptors: Language Research, Evaluation Methods, Deafness, Personal Narratives
The Utterance, and Other Basic Units for Second Language Discourse Analysis.
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Crookes, Graham – Applied Linguistics, 1990
Discusses prominent base units of discourse analysis designed for dealing with structural characteristics of second-language discourse, and offers arguments in favor of selecting the utterance as a valuable base unit. (95 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Language Research, Oral Language
Kidwatching Going beyond the Language of the Test.
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Gupta, Abha – 1992
A study examined the linguistic forms in the discourse of speakers during a language test to indicate why they use certain specific forms over others. Ten children were given the Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language--Simple Sentence Level Test (GAEL), a language proficiency test for hearing-impaired children in the age group of 4 to 8 years.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods
Some Considerations of Intersubjectivity in the Analysis of Textual Relations.
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Koskela, Merja – 1994
A study explored the reliability of methods for analyzing the thematic organization of texts. Five linguists, two of whom were native speakers of Swedish and three of whom were native speakers of Finnish, analyzed the thematic organization of a Swedish popular scientific article, using an analysis that focused on coherence reflected in the…
Descriptors: Coherence, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria
Relationships Between Overall Quality and Seven Language Features in Compositions Written in Grades Seven, Nine, and Eleven.
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Jurgens, 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
Cohesion as an Index for Written and Oral Composition of ESL Learners.
Anderson, Pamela L. – 1980
To determine the usefulness of cohesion frequency analysis in differentiating proficiency in the oral and written composition of English as a second language (ESL) learners, 22 adult learners of ESL were asked to write and tell a story. After transcription, the data were analyzed by holistic evaluation, cohesion form and frequency count, and error…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Applied Linguistics, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy.
Belcher, Diane, Ed.; Braine, George, Ed. – 1995
Essays on research and teaching of academic writing in English as a second language include:"When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Case of a Graduate ESL Student" (Melanie Schneider, Naomi K. Fujishima); "Good Writing: I Know It When I See It" (Ilona Leki); "Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Chinese