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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Sentence-Combining"”.
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Sentence combining and the ESL student
Also covers linguistic error hierarchy.
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Sentence combining and the ESL student
Also covers linguistic error hierarchy.
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Writing Apprehension: Can Sentence Combining Help?
… students who practiced a regimen of sentence-combining would have less apprehension about writing than students who were taught composition in the traditional mode. The subjects were four intact classes of seventh-grade students whose average IQ of 99, who were 12.2 years of age, and …
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The Effect of Sentence Combining Instruction of Language Experience Stories Upon Paragraph Comprehension
… of this study was to determine the effect of sentence-combining instruction of language experience stories upon paragraph comprehension of forty-three fourth grade students. The students were divided into an experimental group and control group and administered the Nelson Reading Test prior to …
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Effect of sentence-combining instruction on the reading and writing achievement of fifth-grade children in a suburban school district
This study investigated the effects of sentence-combining instruction on the reading comprehension and writing maturity of fifth-grade children. The treatment groups were comprised of 25 fifth-grade children in the experimental group and 25 fifth graders in the control group. The students were …
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The Effect of a Metalinguistic Approach to Sentence Combining on Written Expression in Eighth Grade Science for Students who Struggle with Literacy
… approach to the writing intervention of sentence combining with eighth-grade students who struggle with literacy. The researcher conducted the study in a typical science classroom in an urban American school setting. The focus of the intervention was to increase students* metalinguistic …
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An investigation of the reliability of L2 learners' grammaticality judgments
… grammaticality judgment task and a written sentence combining task. Three proficiency groups, low, intermediate and high, took part in the experiment and were compared with a control group. Significant correlations were found across proficiency groups and on various sentence types. High …
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Rewriting the Sentence in First-Year Composition: Pedagogies and Perspectives
… composition classrooms lacking sufficient sentence-level proficiency. Although syntactically challenged writers are often evaluated harshly in academic, professional, and other writing contexts, sentence-based pedagogies that can help students write more clearly and effectively have been …
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Research, Rhetoric, and the Writing Curriculum: Consciousness Expansion Through Bi-Hemisphericity
… able to practice the techniques of elocutio. Sentence combining does double duty for balancing mind and rhetoric: it not only gives one a form, but that form itself generates content. Included is a list of techniques or activities which strengthen right-brain functioning. Each activity is …