Comparisons of Young Children's Syntax to the Syntax of Their Basal Readers.

Lehnert, Linda; Johnson, Barbara

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Publication Date: 1984

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Comparisons of Young Children's Syntax to the Syntax of Their Basal Readers.

Lehnert, Linda; Johnson, Barbara

Reading Psychology, v5 n1-2 p17-30 1984

Reveals that in the average number of words per T-unit, the complexity of basal reader passages generally exceeds that of children's oral language, and that none of the basal series studied exhibited a graduated increase in average number of words per T-unit among passages in the same reader. (FL)

Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Content Analysis, Oral Language, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Syntax, Textbooks, Written Language

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