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Peer reviewedHavertape, John F.; Kass, Corrine E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age Differences, Comprehension, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedHudson, Sally A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Describes children's views of the contexts surrounding their writing and examines five contextual factors: ownership, setting, audience, purpose, and genre.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audiences, Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education
Duin, Ann Hill – 1983
A study investigated the effects of preteaching vocabulary on students' performance of a writing task targeted to the use of those words. Subjects were 50 fourth grade and 55 sixth grade students. Materials included a pretest narrative writing assignment, a 10-word vocabulary pretest and posttest, a vocabulary instructional booklet with teacher's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedBloom, Ronald J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines the use and understanding of concordant and discordant adverbial conjuncts in the latter part of the life span. Young, middle-aged, and elderly adults, matched for education level, were studied. Results indicate a significant decline in processing adverbial conjuncts in the elderly, due to a deficit in linguistic processing rather than a…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Analysis of Variance
