A Study of the Use of Conjunctions across Grades and Ethnic Groups. Technical Report No. 158.

Autor/inn/en	McClure, Erica; Steffensen, Margaret S.
Institution	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading.; Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Titel	A Study of the Use of Conjunctions across Grades and Ethnic Groups. Technical Report No. 158.
Quelle	(1980), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Conjunctions; Developmental Stages; Elementary Secondary Education; English Instruction; Ethnic Groups; Function Words; Grade 3; Grade 6; Grade 9; Language Ability; Language Research; Language Skills; Language Usage; Racial Differences; Skill Development; Structural Grammar + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Ethnie; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Sprachforschung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachgebrauch; Rassenunterschied; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung
Abstract	Children's use of conjunctions was examined for linguistic complexity, developmental differences, and ethnic differences. Third, sixth, and ninth grade Anglo-American, Black, and Hispanic students completed sentence fragments ending in "and,""but,""because," and "even though." These conjunctions can be paired "and-but" and "because-even though," thereby making the second member of each pair the negative of the first. The positive member of each pair proved to be easier to master than the negative one, with the overall order of difficulty (from easiest to hardest) being because-and-but-even though. This order of difficulty was constant across grades and ethnic groups. All ethnic groups showed improvement in the use of conjunctions between third and ninth grades; but Anglo-American students achieved effective mastery of each conjunction earliest, while Hispanic students achieved mastery latest. (Author/RL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC