Browsing by Subject "English language"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)College students' acquisition of "academic discourse" has been the focus of a long-standing debate in composition studies. Despite much critical attention, academic discourse is still an enigma. Yet many theorists contend ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Research into attitudes about American English (AE) held by a native and nonnative English (EFL) speakers depends on a number of related disciplines: dialectology, sociolinguistics, and EFL pedagogy (TEFL). Because linguists ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)First, the purpose of this study was to determine quantitatively and descriptively what differences occurred in the composing processes of eleventh-graders writing in the extensive mode versus those writing in the reflexive ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)What writers of composition texts have written about coherence is not useful to teachers or students. The valuative nature of the language they use to describe coherence does not further instruction. They confuse three ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of language and academic competency as mediators of Hispanic pupils' reading behavior and perception. Separate groups of Hispanic fourth grade pupils with differing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The study was designed to measure the attitudes of freshman university students toward the non-idiomatic and Idiomatic speech styles of two non-native speakers of English. The preferences determined as a result of this ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study was designed: (1) to investigate the Chinese college students' apprehension of both first and second language writing tasks; (2) to determine if there is a relationship between the attitude one holds for writing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This naturalistic study investigated teachers' theories about reading and writing in an attempt to describe the influence of these theories on students who have been classified and grouped into classes of good, average, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)Foreign students enrolled in intensive language institutes in the United States exhibit differences in the time it takes them to achieve levels of reading comprehension that will enable them to study successfully at college ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The main purpose of this study was to provide empirical data that would help to clarify the organizational role of university English as a Second Language (ESL) programs and that would provide at least preliminary indications ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The purpose of this study was to provide a description of the reading and writing characteristics of low achieving minority students in grades five, six, and seven. The 73 black and Hispanic subjects in the study were ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The problem was to investigate relationships between the proficiency tests administered to beginning international students, and GPA to find which, if any, were useful in determining readiness for academic study. This study ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This inquiry project explored teachers' perceptions of theoretical understandings. Twenty-three teachers were interviewed about their theories of language learning. They were asked how theories relate to their classroom ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)Error analysis (EA) in composition studies attempts to determine the causes of writers' uses of nonstandard language. Typified by the work of Kroll and Schafer, Bartholomae, and Shaughnessy, traditional EA draws extensively ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This exploratory study investigated fourteen limited English proficient children's social, verbal, and hands-on interaction as well as literary responses within a computer-based literature reading environment. The children's ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether scores on the General Educational Development Test (GED) could be used for determining placement in developmental and college-level English courses at community ...