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Direct linkGhabanchi, Zargham; Alavi, Sahar Zahed – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
Using Lautmatti's (1978) framework, this study examines the types of topic progression techniques used in 120 paragraphs written by 40 Iranian undergraduate students. Each student was asked to write three types of paragraphs; namely, those of comparison and contrast, cause-effect, and chronology. The present study investigates the relationship…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Paragraph Composition, Writing Assignments, Foreign Countries
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1976
The present study reports on exploratory research to determine whether the Aluminum Paragraph, a sentence-combining exercise developed by O'Donnell (Hunt, 1970) to measure the development of syntactic complexity in the writing of native speakers of English, can also serve as a measure of the active syntactic proficiency of learners of English as a…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
