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Peer reviewedFaigley, Lester L. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes a study which found that generative rhetoric instruction produced a quantitative and qualitative increase in college students' syntactic maturity. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
Brooks, Linda Yvonne – 1975
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a study of Francis Christensen's generative rhetoric of the sentence in enhancing the syntactic fluency of seventh graders as measured by Kellogg Hunt's normative data, and it identified demographic and syntactic features which affect student writing performance. The study involved 149 students and three…
Descriptors: Demography, Doctoral Dissertations, Generative Grammar, Grade 7
Download full textBorgh, Enola – 1972
Modern transformational grammars can be effective tools for writing, for they offer hypotheses and generalizations about English sentences which can be used in an infinite number of linguistic contexts. One writing skill which transformational grammars can help students achieve is the ability to choose between synonymous expressions. Some…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria, Rhetoric, Sentences
Winterowd, W. Ross – Coll Engl, 1970
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diagrams, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – 1978
A study of the effect of an "incremental" version of a generative rhetoric approach to writing instruction was conducted to determine whether such an approach would increase students' syntactic complexity. Ninety-eight college students were randomly assigned to one of five experimental or five control sections of a freshman composition…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
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
BRIGGS, F. ALLEN – 1966
THE USEFULNESS OF MODERN GRAMMAR, PARTICULARLY OF KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE PATTERNS, IN FACILITATING READING EFFICIENCY IS CONSIDERED IN A DISCUSSION OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURE IN LANGUAGE FOR THE TEACHING OF READING. THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED--(1) THE DUAL CONCEPT OF MEANING, (2) THE FOUR STAGES OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE (SOUNDS,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Peer reviewedRose, Shirley K. – College English, 1983
Examines the use of sentence combining as a bridge between grammar and rhetoric during the past 100 years. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Theories, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Chellappan, K. – International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 1981
This paper focuses on the mechanism by which the successful learner acquires a second language. The author postulates a core language, the common core of the speaker's native and target languages, and states that the second language becomes an extension of this common core. Whatever language-specific features are added while acquiring the second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dravidian Languages, French
