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Download full textLiteracy Assistance Center, New York, NY. – 2001
This collection of lesson plans for teaching English as a Second Language includes the following: "You Scratched Me!" which has students examine verbs in three forms (base, past, and progressive) together with questions, accelerating the memorization and understanding of verb forms and tenses; "Getting Acquainted/Inferential Thinking," which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Body Language, Career Choice, Communication Skills
Ray, S., Ed. – 1985
Six papers on Australian Aboriginal and Islander grammars include: "Repetition of Tiwi at Clause Level" (Marie P. Godfrey); "Iwaidja Verbal Clauses" (Noreen Pym); "Murinbata Noun Clauses" (Chester S. Street); "Clauses in Kala Lagaw Ya" (Rod Kennedy); "Kalaw Kawaw Verbs" (Rod Kennedy); and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Creoles, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Nicol, Janet L., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents research on language processing among second language learners and bilinguals. The nine papers include the following: (1) "The Bilingual's Language Modes" (Francois Grosjean); (2) "The Voicing Contrast in English and Spanish: The Relationship between Perception and Production" (Mary L. Zampini…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dictionaries
Harlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1992
Articles on diverse areas of linguistics include the following: "Correlative Constructions in Chinese" (Steve Harlow, Connie Cullen); "Xhosa Isinkalakahliso Again" (John Kelly); "Conversational Phonetics: Some Aspects of News Receipts in Everyday Talk" (John Local); "Parametric Interpretation in Yorktalk"…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Chinese, Discourse Analysis, English
Otsu, Yukio, Ed. – 1989
Seven original research papers are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Acquisition of the Argument-Structure of Verbs" (Mika Endo); "A Note on Semantic Selection" (Yoshio Endo); "The Governing Category Parameter in Second Language" (Makiko Hirakawa); "The Use of Connectives in English Academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
PDF pending restorationFisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1985
Papers on contrastive linguistics in this volume include: "Contrastive Discourse Analysis in Language Usage" (Juliane House); "Typology and Contrastive Analysis" (Vlasta Strakova); "On the Tenability of the Notion 'Pragmatic Equivalence' in Contrastive Analysis" (Karol Janicki); "On the Relevance of Phonetic,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Classification, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis
