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Those Terrible Marks of the Beast: Non-Standard Dialect and Children's Writing.
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Williamson, John; Hardman, Frank – Language and Education, 1997
Examines a wide range of writing tasks of 11- and 15-year-old students from four regions of England to establish the relative importance of nonstandard dialect as a factor in deviation from standard English norms in writing. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childrens Writing, Foreign Countries, Nonstandard Dialects
Time for Refilling the Bath? A Study of Primary Student-Teachers' Grammatical Knowledge.
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Williamson, John; Hardman, Frank – Language and Education, 1995
Investigated levels of grammatical knowledge among 99 trainee primary school teachers in England and Wales. The study focused on clause and sentence structure to investigate the students' ability to apply their knowledge to analysis of children's writing and to explore the implications of proposed revisions to English in the national curriculum.…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers