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Direct linkAlston, Chandra L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
The debate surrounding how best to support African American student writers continues today as the gap between achievement scores persists. This qualitative analysis documents the classroom structures and instructional practices of two English Language Arts teachers working in a predominately African American public middle school, whose students…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), African American Students, Social Support Groups, Process Approach (Writing)
Peer reviewedCooper, Charles R.; Odell, Lee – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Authors, Educational Research, Oral English, Speech
Peer reviewedCombs, Warren E. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Sentence Combining, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F.; Grobe, Cary H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
A study of the results of a New Brunswick (Canada) evaluation of writing in grades five, eight, and eleven revealed that teacher-evaluators were more influenced by the length of compositions and their freedom from simple mechanical errors than by students' control of syntax. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedNystrand, Martin – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Describes a pilot study that employed the cloze technique to assess student writing and to investigate writing generally. (DD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Readability
Peer reviewedBerliner, David C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1996
Argues that the standards by which literacy is judged have gone up, which produces the impression that schools are doing worse than they have in the past when in fact they are doing well. Examines a cross section of studies and data. (TB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Literacy, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedDavis, Ken – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Impromtu pre- and post-test essays by 302 students randomly selected from over 80 sections of a first-semester freshman composition course revealed significant improvement. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBeach, Richard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Reports that students who were provided between-draft teacher evaluation showed a greater degree of change, higher fluency, and greater differences in support of ideas on final drafts than students employing guided self-evaluation forms and students receiving no evaluation. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Secondary Education, Self Evaluation, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedFaigley, Lester – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Tentative conclusions were that controlled sentence practice and sentence combining can increase the overall writing effectiveness and syntactic maturity of college students in a single semester. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSwan, M. Beverly – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Studied how college students altered their syntax when they received direct instruction in sentence combining. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedKing, Martha L.; Rentel, Victor – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Provides a framework for understanding how children's intentions in learning interact with varying learning contexts as children make the transition from speech to writing and develop control over the written medium. (DD)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Literature Reviews, Skill Development
Peer reviewedBlack, Kathleen – Research in the Teaching of English, 1989
Examines the relationships among an audience analysis task, the number of arguments and appeals used in college students' persuasive papers, the level of strategic adaptation of those arguments, and overall persuasiveness. Finds that giving students information about the audience relative to their paper topics significantly affects each of the…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Essays, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHarris, Mary McDonnell – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
A study to determine the degrees of mastery by middle-class second grade children of seventeen syntactic competencies and to compare their oral and written syntactic attainment. (DD)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 2, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedIllo, John – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Prediction, Higher Education, Parent Background
Peer reviewedCayer, Roger L.; Sacks, Renee K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Findings indicate some evidence of the adult basic writer's reliance on the oral repertoire when communicating in the written mode. (DD)
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education
