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McCrimmon, Adam W.; Climie, Emma A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2011
This article presents a review of the "Test of Written Language-Fourth Edition" (TOWL-4), a newly updated individual or group-based measure of written language for students aged 9 years, 0 months through 17 years, 11 months. The stated purposes of the measure are to identify students in need of support or intervention in the area of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Written Language, School Psychologists, Test Reviews
Grigorenko, Elena L., Ed.; Mambrino, Elisa, Ed.; Preiss, David D., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Written Language, Literacy, Child Development
Britton, James; And Others – 1975
Over 2000 samples of the writing of eleven to eighteen year olds were analyzed as part of an attempt to formulate and validate a system for categorizing student writing. The system that resulted has two dimensions: the function served by the piece of writing and the audience to which it is addressed. Significant associations were found between the…
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Bruce, Bertram; And Others – 1978
This paper explores the process of writing from several perspectives, as a first step toward a more comprehensive theory. The first perspective sees writing as a communicative act. The observation that to write is to communicate, though commonplace, has major and sometimes surprising implications for a theory of writing. It forces a focus on the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Theories
Harste, Jerome C. – 1980
Children's early writing is analyzed in this paper according to different perspectives such as function, grapho-phonemics, syntax, and semantics. Emphasis is given to the semantic perspective of decoding the text and to the study of coherence in text as it is viewed by the reader. Proposition analysis is used to map the coherence of samples of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Coherence, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
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Dieterich, Daniel – English Journal, 1973
Provides a brief historical perspective on the teaching of high school composition and reviews seven ERIC documents which deal with this subject. (RB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Language Research, National Competency Tests, Secondary Education
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Bear, Donald R. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines the relationship between stages of orthographic development and writing fluency. Finds that the graphemic output lexicon of beginning readers and writers is not sufficiently detailed to allow a fluent output. (PRA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Hyland, Ken – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1990
A preliminary descriptive framework of the rhetorical structure of the argumentative essay is proposed. Research results are used to show that a "categories analysis" can clarify the structure of written texts and provide pedagogically useful materials. (15 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Essays, Foreign Countries, Language Research
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Cook, Vivian – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses ways of using second language acquisition (SLA) research in teaching, and argues that the correct use of SLA research should meet a set of overlapping requirements. The requirements are then applied to three sample areas of research: the question of age-effects in second language learning, the acquisition of phonology, and the…
Descriptors: Age, Language Research, Phonology, Second Language Instruction
Perron, John D. – 1977
This is the fourth and final report in a series dealing with the impact of the modes of discourse (description, narration, exposition, and argumentation) on written syntactic complexity at the elementary school level. The first three reports dealt in turn with the three grade levels involved in the study (third, fourth, and fifth grades). This…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Language Acquisition
Evertts, Eldonna L. – 1975
To write well is not a singular ability; it utilizes critical thinking, creativity, and a feeling for language. An examination of a number of pieces of writing by elementary school pupils shows that some are highly imaginative while others are informative reports, simple statements of events, colorful descriptions, or various forms of poetry.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Collins, James L. – English Journal, 1982
Reviews what recent research into speaking-writing relationships has to say about a particular problem of unskilled writers--those who tend to write as if they were talking. Examines the differences and interdependence of oral dialogue and written monologue. (RL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Styles
Tripp, Janice A. – 1978
Tagmemic invention offers a student several ways of decreasing the unfamiliarity of the early stages of writing. The process of inquiry and the heuristic devices provide the orientation and tools for dealing with new writing tasks with increased confidence and likelihood of success. In the theory of tagmemic rhetoric, language behavior and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Writing, Language Research, Productive Thinking
Swanson, Carol – 1975
This study examines the degree of consistency between students' oral and written expression, with regard to the ideas and opinions communicated. Fifty-five freshman composition students were asked to elaborate on a subject of choice in a 500-word essay and in a private office interview with the teacher. Data revealed that consistency of expression…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Doctoral Dissertations, English Instruction, Higher Education
Erbaugh, Mary S. – Foreign Language Publications, 2002
Mary S. Erbaugh has compiled this volume to examine the so-called "ideographic myth" from a variety of perspectives. Through this multidisciplinary collection of articles, we learn how the myth has come about, what sort of theory and empirical evidence have been generated to refute it, and how this myth has stubbornly persisted to hamper progress…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Chinese, Japanese, Written Language
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