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Peer reviewedMorenberg, Max; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Both in standard factors of syntactic maturity and in measures of overall writing quality, first year college students trained in sentence combining achieved significantly higher scores than students following a conventional curriculum. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
The treatment group of college freshmen, which worked with the Strong-Christensen sentence-combining materials during an intensive six-week period, scored significantly higher on two factors of syntactic maturity than the control group. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedMaimon, Elaine P.; Nodine, Barbara F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Demonstrated effectiveness in eliciting growth in number of words per T-unit through the use of sentence-combining exercises in a college composition course and related frequency of embedding errors to data on length of T-unit. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedSimons, 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
Peer reviewedO'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
