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PDF pending restorationPowers, James E.; Lis, Donna J. – 1977
The influence of children's levels of field-dependence-independence on their performance with the passive transformation was investigated. Eighty 6th graders, classified as field-dependent or field-independent, were presented with sentence-question combinations, each in either the active or passive voice, and numbers of correct responses were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedGowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Discussion of the theoretical and methodological implications of six studies of the effect of children's expectations on comprehension of the passive transformation and of the Minimum Distance Principle. Study subjects were in kindergarten or elementary school. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Expectation
Peer reviewedGowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1972
Article relates a language research study that found that children have not thoroughly mastered the passive transformation by the end of the first grade. (Author/ML)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education, Language Research, Reading Comprehension
Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – 1977
Developmental trends in the effects of expectations regarding agent/action matches on judgments of sentence acceptability were investigated. Five sentences reflected expected relations ("harmonious") and five contradicted them ("contrary"). Twelve subjects each were in grades 4 through 8 during year 1; the same 60 subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Grammar
