Effects of Fluency Training on the Application of Linguistic Operations in Writing.

dc.creator	Van Gelderen, A.
dc.creator	Oostdam, R.
dc.date	2005-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:05:35Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:05:35Z
dc.identifier	1567-6617
dc.identifier	1573-1731
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fd67504607dd4d78b7e365661e8fa6ed
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9862
dc.description	In this article we report the results of a classroom experiment in grades 5 and 6 of primary education directed at improving children’s writing skills. Our theoretical assumption is that increased fluency in the use of linguistic operations facilitates students’ attention to the meaning level of their texts, resulting in better comprehensibility. We discriminated four conditions for improving linguistic fluency: (1) implicit instruction with attention to linguistic forms, (2) explicit instruction with attention to linguistic forms, (3) implicit instruction with attention to meaning, and (4) explicit instruction with attention to meaning. The experiment consisted of a post test-only design with randomised assignment to experimental groups within a classroom. Effects of instructional conditions on children’s ability to use linguistic operations were explored in writing tasks with less constraints (LCT) or more constraints (MCT) on the translation process. Results show that the students in the experimental conditions performed better in the semantic application of linguistic operations in the LCT task, but not in the MCT task, compared to the control group. This result supports our theoretical assumption that increased fluency results in a better control of the semantic consequences of linguistic operations and therefore in better writing.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Springer
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dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1567-6617
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1573-1731
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 215-240 (2005)
dc.subject	explicit & implicit instruction
dc.subject	focus-on-forms & mearning
dc.subject	linguistic fluency
dc.subject	primary education
dc.subject	writing
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Effects of Fluency Training on the Application of Linguistic Operations in Writing.
dc.type	article