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Olson, David R. – Language and Communication, 1993
Explores how graphic symbols came to represent underlying linguistic constituents. It is suggested that the relationship between speech and writing may be just the opposite of what is traditionally assumed. Writing systems may provide the concepts and categories for thinking about the structure of speech rather than the reverse. (47 references)…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Language Research, Oral Language, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Weber, Rose-Marie – Visible Language, 1986
Examines colloquial contractions (spelling variants such as "kinda" and "hafta") against a background of other variations in the English writing system with respect to their morphological identity, characteristic spelling patterns, and significance in print. Divides variants into those that are independent of speech variation…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, North American English, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Faigley, Lester – Rhetoric Review, 1989
Argues that if the study of language is to become important again in the teaching of writing, it will be through an expanded notion of rhetoric that understands language as the site of struggle over socially produced meaning. (RAE)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Intellectual Disciplines, Language Research, Linguistics
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Collins, James L. – English Journal, 1982
Reviews what recent research into speaking-writing relationships has to say about a particular problem of unskilled writers--those who tend to write as if they were talking. Examines the differences and interdependence of oral dialogue and written monologue. (RL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Styles
Chafe, Wallace; Danielwicz, Jane – 1987
To find differences and similarities between spoken and written English, analyses were made of four specific kinds of language. Twenty adults, either graduate students or university professors, provided a sample of each of the following: conversations, lectures, informal letters, and academic papers. Conversations and lecture samples came from…
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage
Nunan, David – Hong Kong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1994
A study investigated the importance of sentence topic in written discourse. Training second language writers to identify sentence topics in drafts of their written work has been proposed as a central means of helping writers achieve greater coherence. The study explored the notion that "topic" is a psychological rather than linguistic concept, and…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Miller, Gloria E.; Yussen, Steven R. – 1982
Recently there has been an increasing interest in the development of children's impressions of stories, partially due to the work of theorists who have proposed formal grammars representing structural characteristics of stories. In order to learn more about children's narrative competence, stories they produced were analyzed in three experiments.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Creativity Tests
Ice, Marie – 1986
To determine the relationship between oral and written language conventions at the macro and micro levels, a study analyzed various elements of stories generated by children. Subjects, nine above average readers between grades 4 and 9, were asked to tell a story and then to write a story. Sources of stories, overall plot organization, and number…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Weissberg, Bob – 1997
A study examined whether written language in general and dialog journal writing in particular is the preferred vehicle for syntactic acquisition of some adult learners. Subjects were five adult English-as-second-language (ESL) students, all literate in their first language, which was Spanish. Subjects were observed over a period of 16 weeks.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Dialog Journals, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Preteur, Yves; Louvet-Schmauss, Eva – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Presents a continuation of previous research on a general development process consisting of successive levels in conceptualization. Explores how young children conceptualize the writing system. Considers both social background and preschool system of education. Concludes that teaching activities used in French nursery schools are less effective…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies
Harste, Jerome C.; And Others – 1983
The second of a two-volume report, this document focuses on the study of written language growth and development among 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children. The first section of the report introduces the program of research by examining its methodological and conceptual contexts. The second section provides illustrative and alternative looks at the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Educational Theories, Integrated Activities
Stice, Carole F.; Waddell, Jill – 1985
Research conducted since the early 1970s has provided important insights into how written language develops and how teachers can best foster that growth. One of these promotes the holistic approach to language instruction--to nurture the emergent speller is to nurture the emergent reader, writer, speaker, listener, and thinker. Another important…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages
Epes, Mary T. – 1983
A study tested the hypothesis that spoken language has a strong direct influence on the encoding process, and that speakers of nonstandard dialects have a different set of problems with the written language and make identifiably different errors than do speakers of standard dialect. The subjects, 13 standard and 13 nonstandard dialect speakers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)