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Biber, Douglas – 1995
This text provides a linguistic analysis of discourse register in English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali, using a multi-dimensional analytical framework and including sociocultural descriptions. Methodology included a description of the text corpora, linguistic features, and computational/statistical techniques used; theoretical issues…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
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Direct linkAshcroft, Laura – Preventing School Failure, 2004
A case study of a child who was a part of a larger reading-practice research study is presented. Data analysis from the larger study yielded a strong effect size for children in the experimental group who used decodable text for reading practice. The pre- and posttest scores of one child included in the treatment were not used in the statistical…
Descriptors: Prevention, Text Structure, Reader Text Relationship, Readability
