Essays about: "syntactic maturity"

Found 3 essays containing the words syntactic maturity.

1. 1. Gender-based differences in learner English : A syntax study of Swedish high school students’ written production

   University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Kim Signell; [2012]
   Keywords : English; high school; syntactic maturity; T-units; gender;

   Abstract : Female students have long had a perceived advantage over male students in second language ac-quisition. In Swedish schools, the girls have outperformed the boys in the subject of English since the end of the Second World War, but the female students’ edge over the male students has diminished considerably over time. READ MORE

3. 2. Syntactic Analysis of L2 Learner Language : Looking closer at the Noun Phrase

   University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier; Engelska institutionen

   Author : Anders Arodén Jonsson; [2010]
   Keywords : Noun phrase; Noun phrase construction; L2 learner language; syntactic development; syntactic maturity; T-units;

   Abstract : This paper is a study of the noun phrase construction in L2 learner language and the base for the study are the tools for measuring syntactic maturity presented by Kellog W. Hunt (1966). Hunt and other scholars have used T-units, the smallest terminable unit in language, to analyze L2 learner language. READ MORE

4. 3. Characteristics of Junior High School Students’ : Writing in English

   University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Pernilla Larsson; [2010]
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   Abstract : The present paper focuses on the measuring of syntactic maturity in written production among Swedish high school students. One way of doing such an analysis is by studying the students’ use of subordinate clauses. READ MORE