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Peer reviewedLackstrom, John; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented to the Third International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Charts, Determiners (Languages), Grammar, Language Usage
Download full textScannell, Dale P.; Haugh, Oscar M. – 1968
The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness with which composition skills could be taught by the traditional theme-assignment approach and by an experimental method using weekly multiple-choice composition tests in lieu of theme writing. The weekly tests were based on original but typical first-draft compositions and covered problems…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 10, Grammar, Language Usage
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
In a written discourse consisting of a string of "psychological paragraphs," there is in each such psychological paraqraph a "head" structure containing the topic which derives from the deep structure of the discourse. That "head" assertion differs from all other assertions in the psychological paragraph in that it carries new information. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
