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Download full textChandler, Brennan W.; Bourget, Jessica L.; Reno, Emily A. – Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, 2021
The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice
Direct linkBerninger, Virginia W.; Nagy, William; Beers, Scott – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Children in grades one to four completed two sentence construction tasks: (a) Write one complete sentence about a topic prompt (sentence integrity, Study 1); and (b) Integrate two sentences into one complete sentence without changing meaning (sentence combining, Study 2). Most, but not all, children in first through fourth grade could write just…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Sentences, Writing (Composition), Spelling
Peer reviewedSolkov, Arnold – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Linguistics, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedDestefano, Johanna S. – Linguistics: An International Review, 1972
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Sentence Structure
Reising, R. W. – Elementary English, 1970
Critically analyzes Paul J. Schafer's advocacy (in Return to Normalcy," Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), p. 671--see TE 200 730) of a return to the teaching of traditional grammar. (SW)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Sentence Diagraming, Sentence Structure, Teaching Methods
Pettersson, Ake; Lindell, Ebbe – 1976
This progress report describes a Swedish project which is seeking to develop and test materials for writing practice. Experimental materials focus on the sentence, giving students practice in the formation of more advanced constructions. Emphasis in the control program is on a variety of types of written composition (e.g., narratives,…
Descriptors: Instruction, Secondary Education, Sentence Combining, Sentence Structure
BLAKE, ROBERT W. – 1966
BECAUSE OF LIMITATIONS DURING THE ACTUAL STUDY, THIS PROJECT WAS DELIMITED TO THE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MATERIALS ADAPTED FROM STRUCTURAL AND GENERATIVE GRAMMARS UPON THE ABILITY OF SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS TO WRITE MORE MATURE COMPOSITIONS. FORTY-THREE STUDENTS WERE GIVEN EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICALLY-ORIENTED MATERIALS DESIGNED TO…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 7, Grammar, Linguistics
Winterowd, W. Ross – Today's Speech, 1972
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Cultural Awareness, Language Styles, Literature
O'Hare, Frank – 1973
The purpose of this study was to develop a sentence-combining system for teaching composition to seventh grade students. The exercises were designed so as to be independent of the students' previous knowledge of grammar. Chapter 1 examines recent studies in language and writing. The first part of chapter 2 demonstrates that normal growth in…
Descriptors: English, Grade 7, Grammar, Sentence Combining
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
GALE, IRMA FRANCES – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE THE COMPLEXITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS OF FIFTH-GRADE STUDENTS IN A LINGUISTICALLY-ORIENTED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM WITH THE COMPLEXITY OF THE WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS OF STUDENTS WHO WERE TAUGHT TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND A CONTROL GROUP WERE EACH COMPOSED OF 32 STUDENTS AND WERE EQUALIZED…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 5, Grammar, Language Arts
BATEMAN, 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
ALLEN, HAROLD B. – 1963
THE DESCRIPTIVE SCIENCE OF LINGUISTICS AND THE SKILL OF WRITTEN COMPOSITION MEET IN THE "SENTENCE," AND THE INFORMATION WHICH LINGUISTICS PROVIDES ON SENTENCE STRUCTURE CAN AID THE TEACHER OF COMPOSITION. ALTHOUGH TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR DOES NOT IMPROVE A STUDENT'S WRITING, CONSTITUENT GRAMMAR AND TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR, BY PRESENTING METHODS OF…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, Paragraph Composition, Punctuation
Peer reviewedRoss, Janet – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Educational Research, English Instruction
Niedermeier, Jerome L. – 1974
A possible application of generative-transformational (phrase-structure) grammar to the teaching of English composition at the college freshman level is described in this dissertation, which presents a potential textbook for a course on language and its relationship to culture. Topics discussed include traditional grammar, the bases of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Doctoral Dissertations, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
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