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Ross, Janet – TESOL Quarterly, 1968
Basic to composition skill is control of sentence structure and accuracy in mechanics. Although it is often said that a student should not write what he has not first heard and practiced orally, it might equally well be said that he should not be expected to write grammatical patterns that he has not read, inasmuch as there is a difference in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Sentence Structure