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A study of young children's sentence comprehension ability

Authors :
Betty J. Haslett
Dene G. Klinzing
Dennis R. Klinzing
Source :
Communication Education. 26:61-67
Publication Year :
1977
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 1977.

Abstract

This study examines children's sentence comprehension by determining the relative effect which training sessions involving helpful linguistic and visualā€linguistic contexts have on improving children's ability to comprehend reversible passive sentences. The results suggest that the positive effect which helpful visual contexts have on sentence comprehension is limited to immediate sentence comprehension and that children's ability to comprehend reversible passive sentences is developmental. The results support the position that young children have difficulty comprehending reversible passive sentences because they have not yet mastered the syntactic strategies needed to decode such structures.

Details

ISSN :
14795795 and 03634523
Volume :
26
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Communication Education
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........cfd71a4bcce3f2784517a735412bccb6
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/03634527709378201