This paper is intended to provide "an informative general survey" for those persons interested in Chinese, a language used by 25 percent of the world's population. One of the earliest languages in recorded form, written Chinese has both classical and modern forms. Language reforms in Peking, designed to standardize and simplify spoken…

Some 2700 Belgian students (grades five through twelve) participated in this study of the relationships between linguistic features of passages and passage readability estimated from cloze procedures. Clozed versions of each of 60 test passages were prepared and administered to students at various grade levels. Twenty-five linguistic features of…

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…

This bibliography cites books, articles, and textbooks relevant to the English used in journalism. Entries include both American and European publications, and most have been published since 1965. (CLK)

The rhetorical model for improving the basic writing skills of college students is presented from three perspectives. As a diagnostic tool, the model isolates five areas of concern for the developing communicator: surfacing tacit awareness, broadening perception, broadening the communicative repertoire, developing analytical and evaluative skills,…

This paper challenges from a practical point of view the idea that the phonemic principle is the most adequate or the optimal theoretical basis for devising a romanized alphabet for a language. In the past, romanization of languages, written or unwritten, have largely been based on the phonemic principle and have unnecessarily burdened the learner…

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.…

The more audiovisual expression becomes, the harder it is for the young to discover the virtues of reading and writing. Oral language alone is unable to sustain the kind of information that must be passed from generation to generation through transactional writing. From the student's point of view, the written language is essential to extended…

The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of the analytical method of grading essays in relation to the holistic method. It was hypothesized that the use of the analytic method to rate college composition papers produces high rater reliability at the expense of biasing the raters and thus lowering the validity of the grades. Six…

This paper explores the meanings and distribution of the perfect in contemporary American English prose, with reference to problems encountered in teaching English as a second language. The English perfect comprises forms traditionally called present perfect tense, past perfect tense, and perfects of the infinitive, gerund and present participle.…

A resource unit is devoted to teaching structural linguistics to deaf students, using a discovery approach, in order that they may learn written communication through English grammar. Recurring simple sentence patterns are presented, together with lesson plans for teaching sequential patterning in terms of word function and classification, pattern…

An evaluation procedure was formulated to ascertain the effectiveness of an emphasis on the clarity and interest appeal of a composition as opposed to its mechanical correctness in improving a child's written expression. A random sample of themes were submitted to a general evaluation of content by six criteria and a linguistic analysis by nine…

The present study was designed to replicate findings concerning the effect of question position on retention of practiced and non-practiced information and to further evaluate the robustness of the mathemagenic concept by comparing the effectiveness of subject-generated pictures as adjunct aids with written multiple choice questions. The subjects…

In this discussion of various aspects of sexism in language the following principles or basic ideas are set forth for the reader's consideration: (1) the irrational and undesirable idea that male terms stand for the whole population is harmful and the practice should be eliminated; (2) language which suggests that women are, by virtue of their…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUAL DEFICITS AND ACHIEVEMENT WAS STUDIED. PARTIALLY SEEING CHILDREN (424) FROM THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES WERE ADMINISTERED FIVE EQUIVALENT FORMS OF A STANDARDIZED TEST CONTAINING SCHOOL-LIKE READING TASKS. A LATIN SQUARE DESIGN WAS USED TO SPREAD THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS' SKILL IN TEST ADMINISTRATION, PRACTICE, LEVELS…