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Peer reviewedKlecan-Aker, Joan S.; Lopez, Beth – Language and Speech, 1985
Describes a study that compared the language abilities of first and third grade children. The children's narratives were analyzed for differences in T-units and the use of reference and conjoining. Results indicate that the older children used longer T-units and generally had more cohesive ties within their narratives. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Coherence, Conjunctions, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedBraine, Martin D. S.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1990
A study was undertaken to test the theory that canonical sentence schemas can sometimes assign argument structure to verbs. The theory has the advantage of explaining errors without postulating the acquisition of erroneous lexical entries that have to be learned, and it can be extended to other kinds of errors in the choice and placement of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Interpersonal Engagement in Academic Spoken Discourse: A Functional Account of Dissertation Defenses
Direct linkRecski, Leonardo – English for Specific Purposes, 2005
Whereas former research on academic discourse has paid a great deal of attention to writing and its hedging strategies, this paper aims to show that a complementary and equally important feature of academic spoken discourse is the use of modal certainty. An examination of modal selections in two American Dissertation Defenses additionally reveals…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English for Academic Purposes, Doctoral Dissertations, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedPeled, Zimra – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
The multifaceted structure of sentence-completion test items was analyzed to explain verbal comprehension. The three stimulus constituents were technical, logical-semantic, and associative-contextual. Guttman's facet and order theories and smallest space analysis were used. Results confirmed the multiple skills involved in solving these tasks.…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Higher Education
Peer reviewedArd, Josh; Gass, Susan M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Data from responses to a grammaticality judgement test by 26 learners of English as a second language at two proficiency levels were used to investigate syntactic acquisition. Four syntactic structures were examined. Results suggest that less proficient subjects use syntactic strategies, while more proficient learners use semantic-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedFletcher, J. D. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1983
A literature survey to determine problems American Indians experience with English focused on problems solvable through computer presentation of materials. Recommendations included practice in selected minimally contrasting vowel pairs/consonant pairs, final consonants/consonant clusters, irregular plural nouns, verb tense forms, determiners,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Computer Assisted Instruction
