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Direct linkHasson, Natalie; Dodd, Barbara; Botting, Nicola – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: Sentence construction and syntactic organization are known to be poor in children with specific language impairments (SLI), but little is known about the way in which children with SLI approach language tasks, and static standardized tests contribute little to the differentiation of skills within the population of children with…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Language Processing
Peer reviewedSteinkamp, Marjorie W.; Quigley, Stephen P. – Volta Review, 1977
Described is the development of the Test of Syntactical Abilities (TSA), an instrument for measuring deaf children's ability to comprehend and produce syntactically correct written sentences. (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Tests
Download full textBellugi-Klima, Ursula – 1970
To assess a child's communicative ability, it is important to develop not only measures of his understanding of vocabulary, but of his understanding of the syntax of language: patterns of words, regularities, and relationships of words in a sentence. Controlled test situations should be established in which the child receives minimal cues from the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Ability, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedOller, John W., Jr. – Language Sciences, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure, Generative Grammar
Stabler, Edward P., Jr. – 1986
A type of item used frequently in standardized testing involves the recognition of a sentence. Examples of such items are the sentence completion items, used in both the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and the sentence correction items used in the Test of Standard Written English. Tests that contain such…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Language Processing, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent)
Peer reviewedYuan, Boping – Language Learning, 1995
Investigated the acquisition of base-generated topics in Mandarin Chinese by British students learning Chinese. The hypothesis is not confirmed that it would not be difficult for English speakers to acquire the base-generated topic in Chinese because in the acquisition of Chinese, English-speaking learners are exposed to positive evidence of…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
