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Manuel Feria; Juan Roldán – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
In Modern Standard Arabic punctuation marks are less frequent than in European languages. Using discourse markers is instead preferred, which tends to yield long clauses. This, in turn, is assumed to foster sentence splitting in translation from Arabic into English and into Spanish. This assumption was tested on a sample of 470 554 words from a…
Descriptors: Arabic, English, Spanish, Translation
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Jenny M. Hellgren; Ewa Bergqvist; Magnus Österholm – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Argumentation is a key skill in most school subjects and academic disciplines, including mathematics and science. It is possible that similarities and differences between how argumentation is expressed in different subjects can contribute to, or disrupt, students' transferrable argumentation skills. The purpose of this study is therefore to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, College Mathematics
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Shannon Hall-Mills; Carla Wood – Topics in Language Disorders, 2023
The primary objective of this study was to compare the syntactic complexity of informational texts produced by fifth-grade students (a) with and without language impairment and (b) with and without native English-speaking proficiency on a curriculum-based reading and writing task. Expository writing samples produced by 114 children enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Syntax, Writing (Composition)
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Green, Matthew J.; Mitchell, Don C. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Using evidence from eye-tracking studies, Van Gompel, Pickering, Pearson, and Liversedge (2005) have argued against currently implemented constraint-based models of syntactic ambiguity resolution. The case against these competition models is based on a mismatch between reported patterns of reading data and the putative predictions of the models.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Predictor Variables, Reading Processes, Sentence Structure