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Direct linkEdiger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 2012
When being a student in grade school as well as in high school (1934-1946), grammar was heavily emphasized in English/language arts classes, particularly in grades four through the senior year in high school. Evidently, teachers and school administrators then saw a theoretical way to assist pupils in writing achievement. Grammar and writing were…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, English Instruction, Grammar, Writing Instruction
Peer reviewedMesthrie, Rajend – World Englishes, 1996
Presents a case study of the English of early missionaries operating in South Africa. The study characterizes the interlanguages of some German and Dutch missionaries, points out the disparity between the usage patterns found in missionary letters and modern linguists' characterizations of their abilities, and suggests missionary English as an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries
Peer reviewedSweedler-Brown, Carol O. – College ESL, 1993
The effect of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) specific sentence-level errors was examined using 18 randomly chosen essays representing the range of ESL writing found in most large testing situations. Results suggest that graders with insufficient training in evaluating ESL essays differ in their judgment of the weight assigned to ESL error,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Essays
Peer reviewedNi, Weijia; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Explores the prediction of the referential theory, which maintains that the relative complexity of discourse representations plays a key role in determining the perceiver's immediate parsing preferences. Results indicate that semantic/referential principles are applied immediately in an online ambiguity resolution and preempt general world…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Analysis of Variance, College Students, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedKabanova, O. YA. – Instructional Science, 1985
Discussion of Gal'perin's theory of step-by-step formation of mental actions includes descriptions of experimental applications of this activity approach to teaching foreign languages. Constructing and understanding sentences are discussed, and activities for the construction of a sentence and the orientation base of action (OBA) for German,…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Audiolingual Skills, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure
Evans, P.; And Others – 1983
Information on the Ontario Test of English Achievement is presented. Attention is directed to the background and objectives of the test, test development, subtest characteristics and properties, validity, and recommendations concerning test use. The objective of the test was to determine the language competence of incoming students to assist…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries
Download full textZhiwei, Feng – 1995
Trends and developments in computer applications in Chinese language research are described, focusing on these areas: input of Chinese characters and Chinese corpus; automatic segmentation of Chinese written text in corpus; development of a grammar knowledge base for Chinese words to be used as a resource for text segmentation and corpus…
Descriptors: Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Databases
