On 12-Aug-09, at 1:00 PM, Scott Woods wrote:

> Has anyone studied the ease with which students learn to understand  
> grammar based on the linguistic or instructional approach taken.   
> For instance, has anyone compared how quickly and well students  
> learn to understand noun modifiers when they are grouped together  
> and called adjectives (or adjectivals) versus when they are  
> identified with greater specificity?

It would depend entirely on how you operationalize "learn to  
understand grammar." Certainly, the field of applied linguistics is  
replete with studies of different instructional approaches using  
similar grammatical descriptions, but I'm not aware of any studies  
comparing different grammatical descriptions under similar  
instructional conditions.

Best,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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