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Peer reviewedRafoth, Bennett A.; Combs, Warren – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Concludes that syntax as an isolated factor carries no special effects on the two factors comprising ethos--authoritativeness and character. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Credibility, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes
Download full textHeller, Mary F. – 1980
A study investigated the reading comprehension of 34 college freshmen in relation to the presence of 20 syntactic elements of written language in their expository writing. Language samples included one silent reading comprehension test that identified "high" and "low" readers and two expository in-class themes, one developed…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Correlation, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Fowler, Carol A., Ed. – 1995
This publication (one of a series) contains 19 articles which report the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instruments for its investigation, and practical applications. Articles are: "Speech Perception Deficits in Poor Readers: Auditory Processing or Phonological Coding?" (Maria Mody and others); "Auditory…
Descriptors: Arabic, Communication Skills, English, Hebrew
Peer reviewedMavrogenes, Nancy A.: Padak, Nancy D. – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Ninth grade remedial readers at a suburban Chicago high school were given a language development program which included reading while listening to tapes and lessons in syntactic manipulation. Analysis of program effects showed that students improved their ability to understand and manipulate syntactic structures. Reading did not improve markedly.…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Junior High Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedEvans, Ron; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1988
This article discusses findings from three studies investigating the effect of special instruction in sentence-combining on reading comprehension and writing skills. Results indicate significant gains among younger or still-developing students and focused gains among older students. (IAH)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, High Schools, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedFinn, Seth – Written Communication, 1985
Results of two experiments revealed a significant correlation between function-word predictability and reader enjoyment and a strong correlation between content-word unpredictability and reader enjoyment. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Information Sources, Mass Media Effects, Models
MacNeill, Thomas B. – 1982
A study investigated the effect of Frank O'Hare's "Sentencecraft" sentence combining program on the written syntactic skills, reading comprehension level, and speed of average ability ninth-grade students. The sample consisted of 75 experimental group students and 68 control group students. Following a pretest, the experimental group…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 9, Pretests Posttests, Reading Comprehension
Shanahan, Timothy – 1982
A study examined the relationship of multiple measures of reading and writing at the second and fifth grade levels. Multiple reading tests (measuring vocabulary, word recognition, sentence comprehension, and passage comprehension) and writing tests (evaluating vocabulary diversity and syntactic complexity, and providing qualitative and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Measurement Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effects of syntactic differences between oral and written discourse on the reading comprehension of second and fifth grade students; (2) the effects of a sentence combining…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Maguire, Mary H. – 1978
A study investigated whether there were commonalities of cue patterns in six selected tenth grade students' reading and writing that could be discovered from each student's respective language use and perception of the two distinct but interrelated processes. Specifically, the study explored how two above-average readers, two average readers, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 10, Language Patterns, Language Processing
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The six titles deal with the following topics: (1) the role of adversative connectives in helping good and poor readers to integrate textual information; (2) trends in written products of general writing, basic writing, and basic…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Annotated Bibliographies, Critical Thinking, Doctoral Dissertations
