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Mitchell, Thomas D.; Pessoa, Silvia; Gómez-Laich, María Pía; Maune, Michael – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
This study reports on student writing outcomes from a two-year interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists (the authors) and an organizational behavior (OB) professor. We used an ethnographic language-focused approach to make explicit the linguistic features of the case analysis genre at an American university in the Middle East. We…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), College Students, Applied Linguistics, Heuristics
Telaumbanua, Yohannes; Nurmalina; Yalmiadi; Masrul – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The syntactic complexities of English sentence structures induced the Indonesian students' sentence-level accuracies blurred. Reciprocally, the meanings conveyed are left hanging. The readers are increasingly at sixes and sevens. The Sentence Crimes were, therefore, the major essences of diagnosing the students' sentence-level inaccuracies in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sentences, Accuracy, Sentence Structure
Katz, Marco; van Bruggen, Jan; Giesbers, Bas; Waterink, Wim; Eshuis, Jannes; Koper, Rob – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
This paper discusses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) as a method for the assessment of prior learning. The Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) is a procedure to offer learners an individualized curriculum based on their prior experiences and knowledge. The placement decisions in this process are based on the analysis of student material by domain…
Descriptors: Semantics, Student Evaluation, Prior Learning, Individualized Instruction

Craven, Timothy C. – Library and Information Science Research, 1988
Describes the results of an analysis of 87 non-formulaic abstracts for structures of semantic dependency between sentences. An automatic structural simplification is presented which is based on an assumption about the use of the dependency structure, and the results of an evaluation of the method are discussed. (25 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Coherence, Paragraph Composition, Semantics
Reading Comprehension in Children with Specific Language Impairment: An Examination of Two Subgroups
Kelso, Katrina; Fletcher, Janet; Lee, Penny – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: In reading research, children with specific language impairment (SLI) have tended to be included in groups of children expected to have difficulties with both decoding and reading comprehension (generally poor readers). This is because generally children with specific language impairment display difficulties with phonology as well as…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Syntax, Semantics, Profiles
Raskin, Victor – 1981
Extralexical information, that is, those semantic properties evoked by words which are not usually accommodated in lexicons of any kind, is essential for the comprehension of numerous ordinary sentences in a natural language. A brief review of studies on forms of extralexical information shows that those works do not deal with: (1) questions of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Dictionaries, Discourse Analysis, Lexicology

Horn, Vivian – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Skills

Fahnestock, Jeanne – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Examines coherence between sentences in a paragraph, arguing that readers require coherence at this level as well as between paragraphs. Discusses continuative and discontinuative relationships between sentences, including (1) sequence, (2) exemplification, (3) addition, (4) replacement, (5) contrast, and (6) alternation. (HTH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Addison, James C., Jr. – 1984
In order to account for the ways in which combined and decombined sentences work, and to determine why some texts are perceived as being well-written and others are perceived as poor and ineffective, 11 texts were selected for distribution to students for ranking, all on the same topic--the Civil War. Overall, students ranked Bruce Catton's "Grant…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Lexicology

Jackson, Robert K. – Reading Improvement, 1972
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Crismore, Avon – 1982
In the writing of Matthew Arnold, integration, one great impression rather than many great individual lines, is the most important goal. In his essay, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," the "blocs" of his thought are in sets of two, three, or even four sentences: in effect, he writes much like a poet, in couplets,…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, English Literature, Paragraph Composition

Colwell, Clyde G.; Helfeldt, John – Reading World, 1983
Argues that the paragraph represents a semantic unit, not just a grammatical convention. Presents original research to establish the types and frequencies of certain paragraph formats found in expository material. Discusses the most appropriate time for teaching students the ideational relationships within paragraphs. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Paragraph Composition
Fahnestock, Jeanne – 1981
Helping students understand coherence in terms of the lexical ties and semantic relations possible between clauses and sentences formalizes an area of writing instruction that has been somewhat vague before and makes the process of creating a coherent paragraph less mysterious. Many students do not have the intuitive knowledge base for absorbing…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, Connected Discourse
Scott, Robert Ian – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1969
Students who are taught to understand and apply Korzybski's uses of semantics to their writing will learn to write more concretely. As students locate words and descriptions vertically on Korzybski's scale of abstraction levels, they will become able to perceive how meanings change when descriptions become either more general or specific, to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication Skills, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis
Lieber, Paula E. – 1981
Superordinates in Halliday and Hasan's analysis of cohesion are lexical items which refer to preceding terms, ideas, or actions, or to whole stretches of discourse, by naming a more inclusive category or class within which the antecedent is included. In written texts the interrelationships between superordinates and more specific terms, or…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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