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A Critique of Some Indices of Syntactic Maturity
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O'Donnell, Roy C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Measurement Techniques, Syntax
Analysis of Syntax of Six-, Seven-, and Eight-Year-Old Children
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Morrow, 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
Syntactic Maturity of Students' Oral Paraphrases
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Pope, 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
Oral and Written Syntax Attainment of Second Graders
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Harris, 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
Syntactic Maturity and Vocabulary Diversity in the Oral Language of First, Second, and Third Grade Students
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Ciani, Alfred J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Primary Education, Rural Education
A Proposed Scale for Syntactic Complexity
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Endicott, Anthony L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
A Comparison of Vocabulary Diversity and Syntactic Structures in Four-Year-Old Children at Two Socio-Economic Levels
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Quisenberry, Nancy Lou Forbes – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Language, Language Learning Levels, Language Research, Linguistic Performance
Increasing Ninth-Grade Students' Awareness of Syntactic Structure through Direct Instruction
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O'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
Syntactic Maturity From High School to University: A First Look
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Stewart, 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
Sentence Combining as a Curricular Activity: Its Effects on Written Language Development and Reading Comprehension
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Stotsky, 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
Inferring from the Conditional: An Exploration of Inferential Judgments by Students at Selected Grade Levels
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Klein, Marvin L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Grade 12, Grade 4
Black English Syntax and Reading Interference
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Simons, Herbert D.; Johnson, Kenneth R. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
No evidence was found to indicate that grammatical reading interference is an important factor in the poor reading achievement of Black youngsters. (JH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Dialect Studies, Grammar
The Syntax of Fourth Graders' Narrative and Explanatory Speech
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Pope, Mike – Research in the Teaching of English, 1974
Type of discourse and syntax are related; speech researchers will have to specify type of discourse for their results to be comparable with other studies. (JH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4, Language Patterns
An Exploration of Deep Structure Recovery and Reading Comprehension Skills
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O'Donnell, Roy C.; King, F. J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
The attempt to teach deep structure recovery skills to poor readers was unsuccessful, perhaps because of student attitudes. (JH)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Deep Structure, Grade 7, Language Research
Sex Differences in Syntax and Usage in Oral and Written Language.
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Price, Gayle B.; Graves, Richard L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
A study of the language usage of 80 middle school students revealed no significant difference between the sexes on any measure of syntactic maturity; however, boys deviated from standard usage somewhat more frequently than did girls, and boys produced more words in oral language while girls produced more words in written language. (ET)
Descriptors: Females, Language Fluency, Language Research, Language Skills
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