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Seelbach, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
Recommends the "distributional" and transformational grammar approach as especially suitable for developing a teaching grammar for dealing with the French simple infinitive and infinitive with "de". (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Knowles, Lance – Cross Currents, 1976
The English verb is traditionally presented as having so many "tenses" that both students and teachers are confused. No real logic seems to hold the whole thing together, and teachers' explanations are often off the mark. Organizing verb forms in terms of past, present, and future is not only incorrect, but misleading. The linguist…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Monnerie, Annie – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Analyses the nature of aspect in the present, the past ("passe compose"), and imperfect tenses in French, and gives some general guidelines for the teaching of these structures. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedRichards, Jack C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Discusses a technique for teaching the usage of the present perfect tense to students of English as a second language. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Veciana, Roberto – Yelmo, 1979
Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used in various texts, in order of frequency. (NCR)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Peer reviewedDeMello, George – Hispania, 1979
Discusses the distinctions that exist among the uses of "ser" and "estar" in Spanish. They are explained with reference to the semantic values present in the three basic functions of these verbs: principal, auxiliary, and attributive. (NCR)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Research, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedVizmuller, Jana – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Provides guidelines for the teaching of aspect in the Italian verb system. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Italian
Fenn, Peter – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1978
Discusses the semantic functions of the English future formations: "will/shall,""to be going to," and the present tense. Points out that these all have modal as well as temporal significance, making the traditional teaching of the English future imprecise and misleading. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Semantics
Peer reviewedWhite, Marilyn – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
This article presents a method for teaching the meaning of the word "hope" to students of English as a second/foreign language. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedMowry, Hua-yuan Li – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1979
Criticizes one pattern drill found in John DeFrancis'"Beginning Chinese," (1976) and suggests possible changes. (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Grammar, Language Instruction, Pattern Drills (Language)
Peer reviewedMatthews-Bresky, R. J. H. – Zielsprache Englisch, 1978
Discusses semantic differences in the use of "simple" and "continuous" forms of the verb in English. Also discussed are variations found in the various temporal levels: present, future, perfect, and past, as well as in combinations with the modals "may" and "must,""could" and "might," and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages)
Zydatiss, Wolfgang – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1979
Rejects the semantic analysis of the English progressive form proposed by Konrad Macht in 1973. Citing performance data from tenth grade classes and reviewing the contents of school grammars in use at the intermediate level, a teaching grammar for the progressive form is developed. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedStuderus, Lenard H. – Hispania, 1979
Examines the temporal reference of Spanish verb forms by using a simple time axis showing five points of temporal reference. (NCR)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Research, Models, Morphology (Languages)
Espanol para extranjeros: verbos mas frecuentes (Spanish for Foreigners: The Most Often Used Verbs).
Veciana, Roberto – Yelmo, 1978
Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used, in order of frequency. (NCR)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Camaiora, Luisa Conti – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses the problems involved in teaching Italian students the English equivalents of the verb "dovere." (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Italian, Language Instruction
