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Is Second Language Learning Like the First?
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Ervin-Tripp, Susan – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Child Language, English, French, Interference (Language)
On the Syntax of Written Black English
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Ross, Stephen B. – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 1970, in Los Angeles, California. (DS)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, English, Grammar
A Technique for Interlingual Lexico-Semantic Comparison: The Lexigram.
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Ramsey, Robert M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1981
Addresses the issue of vocabulary in the English as a Foreign Language classroom and introduces a technique for interlingual lexico-semantic comparison: the lexigram. This technique is based on restricted word-association data gathered from native speakers of English and Spanish and gives insights into vocabulary development. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Discovery Learning, English
A Nonstandard Approach to Standard English.
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Sato, Charlene J. – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Rejects assimilationist ideology as a way of legitimizing the educational experience of language minority groups, and proposes the adoption of a pluralist position that views the teaching of standard English as a second dialect as "additive bidialectalism" rather than remediation. (91 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Creoles, Dialects, English
English for Cross-Cultural Communication: The Question of Intelligibility.
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Smith, Larry E.; Rafiqzad, Khalilullah – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
A study was carried out to compare the degree of intelligibility between native and non-native varieties of educated English. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Cross Cultural Studies
Sexism and TESOL Materials.
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Hartman, Pat L.; Judd, Elliot L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This paper first explores the treatment of women in materials in current use for English as a second language (ESL) and then discusses English words labelled as prejudicial against women (e.g., generic "he"). Changes are suggested for reducing the bias in the portrayal of women in ESL materials. (CFM)
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Females, Instructional Materials
Writing in a Bilingual Program: The Relation of L1 and L2 Texts.
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Edelsky, Carole – TESOL Quarterly, 1982
Hypothesizes that the relationship between L1 and L2 writing is not one of interference, but rather application of L1 to L2 writing. Includes writing samples of first-, second-, and third-grade students enrolled in a bilingual program. (EKN)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English, Interference (Language)
Stigmatized and Standardized Varieties in the Classroom: Interference or Separation?
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Siegel, Jeff – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Summarizes research on educational programs that use stigmatized varieties of English in the classroom, and reviews relevant theory and research in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. Research on educational programs shows that using the stigmatized variety in formal education seems to have a positive effect on the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education, English