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Download full textBaker, William J.; Prideaux, Gary D. – 1973
Differences between formal constraints on a generative grammar and concepts of efficiency in transforming sentences provide different expectations regarding performance measures if the grammar is taken as a psychologically real model. To contrast these views, subjects were given sentences varying in voice, mood, and modality and asked to transform…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Models
Peer reviewedClark, Herbert H.; Begun, Jeffrey S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Experiments
Peer reviewedFeldman, Carol F. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level
Sloane, David E. E. – 1979
The traditional method of teaching writing to students in universities by correcting their errors supposes a generally well-developed sense of written language structure and formal English language discourse. The new population seeking higher education does not always possess such a background. An alternative instructional method is to use the…
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, Grammar, Higher Education
Labbe, Raul; Varas, Amanda – 1993
A computer-based set of instructional materials, designed to teach English second-language reading skills to university-level engineering students, is described and its development is outlined. The programmed units are designed to be used individually on the computer. The stages of software development included: selection of sentence units from…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Curriculum Design
