Research indicates that sentence-combining instruction is effective for improving writing outcomes; however, no studies to date have examined the effects of sentence-combining instruction on the writing skills of Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of explicit sentence-combining instruction that focused on correct adjective use when used with Spanish-speaking LM students with poor sentence construction skills. Across two studies, seven Spanish-speaking LM children in third to fifth grade participated in sentence-combining interventions designed to teach adjective placement. Results indicated that there was a functional relation between the introduction of sentence-combining instruction and student performance on sentence-writing probes. In addition, the intervention led to an improvement in number of correct writing sequences on the sentence-writing probe.

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句子组合教学对讲西班牙语的少数民族学生的影响

研究表明，句子组合教学对提高写作成绩有效；然而，迄今为止，还没有研究考察过句子组合教学对讲西班牙语的少数民族 (LM) 学生写作技巧的影响。因此，本研究的目的是检验专注于正确使用形容词的显式句子组合教学在与句子结构技能较差的讲西班牙语的 LM 学生一起使用时的效果。在两项研究中，七名三至五年级的西班牙语 LM 儿童参与了旨在教授形容词位置的句子组合干预。结果表明，句子组合教学的引入与学生在句子写作试题中的表现之间存在函数关系。此外，