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Peer reviewedSurridge, Marie E.; Lessard, Gregory – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Test results for final-year French students in Canadian universities show they have not mastered the gender of some of the most frequent French nouns. Two recommendations are to continue to seek simplification of the learning of gender and to require students to use the full range of syntactic transformations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French
Panagopoulou, Evangelia – 1990
A discussion of some occurrences of metaphor in Modern Greek is intended to offer insight to foreign language teachers on the handling of the phenomenon in classroom instruction. Some implications for machine translation are also suggested. First, a brief theoretical account of metaphor points out that metaphor occurs in nearly all discourse and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, English
