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Direct linkShannon 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)
Tong, Xiuhong; Kwan, Joyce Lok Yin; Xiuli Tong, Shelley; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Syntax, or sentence structure, plays a role in reading comprehension, but how students draw on their awareness of syntax in their reading remains unclear; the mechanism is even more ambiguous in bilingual students. In this study, we evaluated the direct and indirect contributions of syntactic awareness on first-language Chinese and second-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
