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Soven, Margot – 1981
College freshmen, when confronted with an essay question using broad concepts such as "society,""freedom," and "progress," seldom clarify or define the concepts in their essays before expressing their opinions or solutions. Students who read without interpreting the concepts implied by certain words shortchange the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Wolfe, Susan J. – 1979
An examination of eight widely used college English handbooks published since 1974 reveals a range of sexist usage, indicating that authors and editors have not reached a general consensus on which practices they and student writers are to avoid as sexist. Sexism is still manifest in handbooks in such practices as the following: using sexually…
Descriptors: English Education, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
Peer reviewedBarnett, Jenny – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
A functional syllabus for post-intermediate study of English as a second language (ESL) that was developed for the provincial high schools in Papua New Guinea is described. The framework necessary to analyze student needs and define learning objectives is based on languages uses. A "language use" is a semantic unit identifying the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Language Guides, Language Role
Download full textde Beaugrande, Robert – 1977
A "generative stylistics" approach to writing presents usable, conscious standards for the production, arrangement, and rearrangement of written discourse thereby teaching students how to make appropriate decisions about language usage. Based on research studies that indicate the dependence of the writing process on the decision making…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Criteria, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis
Wooden, Sharon Lee – 1978
Four scales developed by Marion Monroe for recording, describing, analyzing, and rating children's oral language skills are described and presented in this paper. The skills assessed by the scales are first described as follows: (1) how a child thinks, as revealed by the quality of ideas; (2) how a child thinks, as revealed by definition of words;…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Marzano, Robert J.; DiStefano, Philip – 1978
Seven hundred and fifty compositions, randomly selected from National Assessment of Educational Progress essays written by 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds, were analyzed in a study of the skills that go into the writing of a good composition. The essays were first rated as high, medium, or low in quality. A total of 43 different indices reported or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Kaplan-Sanoff, Margot – 1979
Findings from a study comparing the effects of segregated versus mainstreamed preschool settings on handicapped and non-handicapped children strongly suggest that mainstreaming is the preferable alternative for all types of handicapped preschool children. Initially, handicapped children in both segregated and mainstreamed settings were found to be…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Handicapped Children, Language Usage, Mainstreaming
MUMA, JOHN R. – 1967
THE FREQUENCY OF 'ASPECT' (PERFECT AND PROGRESSIVE IN THE AUXILIARY) WAS REPORTED FOR RETARDED, NORMAL, AND SUPERIOR CHILDREN ACROSS AGE AND THE ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE MODALITIES. DATA WERE LIMITED IN SEVERAL RESPECTS, PARTICULARLY SIZE OF SAMPLE. THIS IS A PILOT STUDY RATHER THAN A SERIOUS EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND PROCESSES OF LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Grammar, Handicapped Children
MILLER, EBERT L.; TOVATT, ANTHONY L. – 1967
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECT OF CERTAIN ORAL-AURAL-VISUAL (OAV) STIMULI PROCEDURES ON DEVELOPMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITTEN COMPOSITION (AND OTHER ENGLISH SKILLS) OF NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS IN BURRIS LABORATORY SCHOOL, BALL STATE UNIVERSITY. THE STUDY WAS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE PROFICIENT WRITER SAYS AND HEARS AT A SUB-VOCAL LEVEL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Auditory Stimuli, English Instruction, Grade 9
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. Women's Educational Equity Act Dissemination Center. – 1980
This training manual for preschool teachers explains the philosophy behind several non-sexist teaching techniques and offers concrete suggestions for implementing non-sexist educational practices and concepts in the classroom. Section One provides a rationale for non-sexist preschool education and reviews organized efforts leading to the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum, Fathers, Guidelines
Ives, William; Rakow, Joel – 1980
The role of verbalization in children's mental operations was studied by comparing the mental operations children used in spatial perspective tasks (indicating another's view) and rotation tasks (imagining an object's rotation and one's own subsequent view). Each of 96 children (equal numbers of boys and girls, kindergarten and second grade…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Ability
Patterson, Jean Scarborough – 1979
The Spanish syntax of 36 English-Spanish bilingual students at the University of Texas at El Paso was examined to determine the variety and extent of English influence on Spanish syntax and to correlate the relative extent of this influence with selected extra-linguistic factors. The most significant finding was that the group of students having…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Tovey, Hilary – 1978
This report, based on the materials used by the Committee on Irish Language Attitudes Research, describes the relations between language policy and socioeconomic development in the Republic of Ireland. Their contribution to central state planning in the maintenance and extension of Irish since attainment of political independence in 1922 is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Role, Government Role, Language Ability
Gorman, Thomas P., Ed. – 1977
Comprising a study of the application of linguistics to literacy, the 16 papers in this book were prepared by contributors from both developing and developed nations. The papers in the first section illustrate the relevance of certain developments in theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics to literacy teaching.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Christie, Frances – 1979
The national Language Development Project in Australia, an undertaking concerned with informing teachers on matters to do with language, language development, and language and learning, is described in this report. The various sections of the report establish the project's purposes; offer discussions of developments in thinking and research of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
