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Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Roy C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Measurement Techniques, Syntax
Peer reviewedMorrow, Lesley Mandel – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Data in this study showed significant linguistic differences between six- and seven-year-olds and a leveling-off between the seven- and eight-year-olds. (DD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedPope, Mike – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Found that older students speak in a more mature manner than younger ones when presented with paraphrasing tasks. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Maturation
Peer reviewedHarris, Mary McDonnell – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
A study to determine the degrees of mastery by middle-class second grade children of seventeen syntactic competencies and to compare their oral and written syntactic attainment. (DD)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 2, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedCiani, Alfred J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Primary Education, Rural Education
Peer reviewedCrowhurst, Marion; Piche, Gene L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Reports on a study that examined the effect of intended audience and mode of discourse on the syntactic complexity of compositions written by sixth- and tenth-graders, and that attempted to determine whether there were increases in syntactic complexity from grade 6 to grade 10 for each audience and in each mode. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedPiche, Gene L.; Rubin, Donald L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Describes a study that examined how audience differences, realized as varying degrees of intimacy or familiarity with a writer, affect syntactic and strategic aspects of style and that sought to determine the extent to which audience adaptation is developmental among fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students as well as expert adults. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Investigated the written syntactic maturity of students from grade ten through sixth year university. (DD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
The experimental evidence on the value of a sentence-combining approach to improving reading comprehension is still sparse, but the possibilities seem rich.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedDieterich, Daniel J.; Behm, Richard H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Describes recent studies dealing with writing and the writing process, language acquisition, English teacher education, multimedia instruction, literature, language skills, and reading. (HOD)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Elementary Secondary Education, English Teacher Education
Peer reviewedDieterich, Daniel J.; Behm, Richard H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Provides annotations of research studies in the areas of language, literature and media study, writing, and English teacher education. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
