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Fry, Danny Janice Whitley – 1971
Two grammars (traditional and transformational) and two methods of teaching (direct and indirect) were measured to determine their effects upon the writing performance of students of low socioeconomic backgrounds. While the direct teaching of grammar was concerned with the correction of specific errors, the indirect teaching was concerned with a…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grade 9, Sentence Structure, Socioeconomic Status
Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Roy C.; Smith, William L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Sensitivity to syntactic structure can be increased by direct instruction. (JH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, English Instruction, Grade 9
Download full textBATEMAN, DONALD R.; ZIDONIS, FRANK J. – 1966
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED, OVER A 2-YEAR PERIOD, AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TO TEST THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF A STUDY OF A GENERATIVE GRAMMAR ON STUDENT COMPOSITIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE REGULAR CURRICULUM, AN EXPERIMENTAL CLASS OF 50 NINTH-GRADERS (AND 10TH-GRADERS THE FOLLOWING YEAR) WAS REQUIRED TO LEARN TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Grade 10, Grade 9
Ofsa, William John – 1974
This study sought to broaden the scope of teacher training in English by incorporating an experimental design in practice teaching. The control group, 20 ninth graders whose IQ's averaged 95, studied narrative-descriptive writing and transformational grammar, writing the same number of compositions as the two experimental groups. The low…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, English Education
McGuire, Eileen J. – English Journal, 1967
When ninth-grade students are searching for help in expressing their newly discovered ideas, the principles of transformational grammar can be brought to their aid in the following ways: (1) Assign a provocative topic to the students which they are to discuss as fully as possible in one sentence. (2) Present only the kernel sentences of a…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Grammar, Junior High School Students
