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Discourse Errors in Students with Learning Disabilities and Their Normally Achieving Peers: Molar versus Molecular Views.
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McCord, Jill S.; Haynes, William O. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Twelve learning-disabled children, aged 8-11, were compared with normal peers on various discourse errors. No significant quantitative differences were found in the total number of discourse errors between the disabled and normal groups, but the errors were qualitatively different. Male subjects made significantly more errors than female subjects.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Feedback Effects on Oral Reading Errors of Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Perkins, Victoria L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Elementary learning-disabled boys (N=48) were randomly assigned to four feedback treatment conditions that involved orally reading nonsense words. Results demonstrated significant differences for: any type of feedback compared to no feedback, corrective feedback (modeling and sound-it-out) compared to general feedback, and modeling compared to…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational Therapy, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)