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Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 2001
This instructional video is designed for schools, teachers, and community groups as a tool for encouraging refugee and immigrant parents to communicate with their children's school. The video focuses on the willingness of school personnel to meet with parents to discuss their child's education needs. The video includes sample conversations between…
Descriptors: Amharic, Cultural Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Zsiga, Elizabeth C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study compares patterns of consonant-to-consonant timing at word boundaries in English and Russian and investigates the roles of transfer and the emergence of linguistic universals in second language (L2) articulation. Native Russian speakers learning English and native English speakers learning Russian produced phrases in English and Russian…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Language Universals, Russian

Vassileva, Irena – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1995
Focuses on the similarities and differences between the rhetorical structure of some Slavonic and English scientific texts. The study tests the assumption that scientific discourse has universal features that are language-independent. Results point to differences between the two types of rhetorical patterns resulting from cultural and academic…
Descriptors: Bulgarian, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1978
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "The Impersonal Sentence in Russian and Romanian" (Suzanne Whalen); "Differential Identity Between Languages--A Study of Assertion and Interrogation in French and English" (William A. Bennett); "The Use of the Article in English and Hungarian: A Contrastive Analysis" (Eva…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English, French
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1976
A collection of 32 conference papers is presented as reflecting the state of the art in contrastive linguistics studies of English and other languages. The reports cover the following topics: 5 English contrastive projects (Romanian-English, Yugoslav-Serbo-Croatian English, English-Hungarian, and Finnish-English analysis, and a project from the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
FISCHER, MILLA – 1967
CONTRASTIVE CULTURAL FEATURES SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE GRAMMATICAL LESSON AS A MEANS OF COUNTERBALANCING THE GENERALLY UNSATISFACTORY MATERIAL USED FOR RUSSIAN TEXTS. LESSONS FOR AMERICAN STUDENTS LEARNING RUSSIAN SHOULD INCLUDE PHONOLOGICAL DRILLS ON VOWEL LENGTHS, DISTRIBUTION OF VOICED OBSTRUENTS, AND OBSTRUENT CLUSTERS,…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences
Gibian, George – 1967
Selected works in translation currently available by and about 33 Soviet Russian authors comprise the major portion of this annotated bibliography. Approximately 850 items published between 1920 and 1966 are included. Materials relating to Sholokhov, Leonov, and Esenin are especially well represented. Separate sections provide references to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Biographies, Book Reviews, English
Bar-Adon, Aaron, Ed.; Leopold, Werner F., Ed. – 1971
The present volume is designed to help the student of child language, especially the beginning student, discover the high points of American and international research, such as French, German, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian. The selections in this reader are intended as an introduction to various fields of child language and to different theories and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Chinese, English

Piotrowski, Tadeusz – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Analyzes bilingual dictionaries from eastern bloc countries. Reviews the problems inherent in different treatments of English pronunciation in various bilingual dictionaries. (LMO)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Czech, Diacritical Marking, Dialects

Kempe, Vera; MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines a task that can be applied in a uniform fashion across different languages to compare levels of vocabulary development in foreign-language learning. Results indicate that the lexical decision task can be a useful tool for the assessment and cross-linguistic comparison of lexical development in foreign-language learning. (37 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, English
Pavlenko, Aneta – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2003
The focus of the present paper is on the relationship between national identities and foreign-language education policies and practices. The paper examines this relationship through a juxtaposition of three sociohistoric contexts in which sociopolitical events led to major changes in foreign-language education: post-World War I United States,…
Descriptors: Patriotism, Second Language Learning, War, Foreign Countries
Stanford Univ., CA. Committee on Linguistics. – 1973
The research resumes presented here comprise the responses received by the Stanford Child Language Project to a general request for reports on research in progress. These reports include all those distributed at the Child Language Research Forum in April 1973. The resumes cover a wide range of topics and present, in order, the following…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language
Lvovich, Natasha – 1997
This book recounts the personal experiences of a woman who learned three languages (French, Italian, and English) in addition to her native Russian. She learned French as an emotional and intellectual escape from difficult conditions as a Jew in the Soviet Union, then learned Italian in Italy while she and her family waited to gain entrance into…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Autobiographies, Case Studies, Cultural Awareness

British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This selective bibliography lists 8 books and articles dealing with Russian-English contrastive studies and 2 articles on general Slavic studies. The entries range in date from 1953 to 1967. The books cited are European or American publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Centre for Information on Language Teaching, London (England). – 1972
This annotated bibliography provides a guide to books on the theory and practice of language teaching. Instructional materials for classroom use are not included. Eight sections of materials are contained in the work: (1) language, (2) language teaching, (3) English for speakers of other languages, (4) French, (5) German, (6) Italian, (7) Russian…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, English, English (Second Language), French