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Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Oladrostam, Elnaz – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2011
Teaching grammar in a way that enables students to use grammatical structures correctly in their active use has always been one of the intricate tasks for most practitioners. This study compared the effectiveness of three instructional methods: games, dialogues practiced through role-play, and unfocused tasks for teaching grammar. Forty-eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Laing, Donald – 1985
To determine the syntactic maturity of eighth grade Canadian students' writing, all the students in four eighth grade classes were asked to write two compositions--one narrative and one argumentative--two weeks apart. The syntactic maturity level of the resulting 81 narrative compositions and 82 written arguments was compared with the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level