Kenneth Goodman's view of the reading process
suggests that the reader utilizes three cue systems
(grapho-phonic, semantic and syntactic) in obtaining
meaning from the visual array. The study was
designed to explore means by which first year high
school students could be taught syntax informally
to facilitate their utilization of syntactic cues
in reading. The literature was reviewed to provide
an understanding of those syntactic structures
which were likely to present difficulty and to
discover theoretically sound bases for teaching
strategies. Because of the absence of data on
Australian students in the first year of secondary
school, a survey of the Grade 8 population of a
large metropolitan high school was undertaken.
This survey linked syntactic knowledge to scores
obtained on a standardized test of reading comprehension.
Suggestions on the informal teaching of grammar were
then proposed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219096 |
| Date | January 1976 |
| Creators | Knudsen, Paul, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Teacher Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Paul Knudsen |
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