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Direct linkAudrey Rousse-Malpat; Lise Koote; Rasmus Steinkrauss; Marjolijn Verspoor – Language Teaching Research, 2024
We investigated the effectiveness of two different teaching methods based on two different theoretical views of how languages are learned in oral proficiency after three years of L2 French instruction. The first method is commonly used in the Netherlands and is in line with structure-based (SB) principles, viewing language as a set of grammar…
Descriptors: French, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textUbbes, Valerie A.; Ausherman, Judith A. – Health Educator, 2018
The purpose of this historical project was to compare 19th and 20th century books that originated approximately 165 years apart from collections at Miami University (Oxford, OH) in order to interpret how an early language and vocabulary may have emerged from literacy practices of reading printed books to form an early conception of health…
Descriptors: Books, History, Language Usage, Vocabulary
Al-wossabi, Sami A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Recent studies in corpus linguistics have revealed apparent inconsistencies between the prescriptive grammar presented in EFL textbooks and the type of grammar used in the speech of native speakers. Such variations and learning gaps deprive EFL learners of the actual use of English and delay their oral/aural developmental processes. The focus of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Khojasteh, Laleh; Kafipour, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2012
Using corpus approach, a growing number of researchers blamed textbooks for neglecting important information on the use of grammatical structures in natural English. Likewise, the prescribed Malaysian English textbooks used in schools are reportedly prepared through a process of material development that involves intuition. Hence, a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
Akbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Hardin, Karol – Hispania, 2012
Demand for medical Spanish courses has grown with the rising needs of Spanish-speaking patients in the United States, but while there is no shortage of beginning medical Spanish textbooks, very few target the intermediate level. This article examines eighteen medical Spanish texts published in the last twenty years with respect to seven factors:…
Descriptors: Novices, Patients, Textbooks, Spanish
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Félix-Brasdefer, J. César, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2016
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University. It includes fourteen papers on a variety of topics, with a diversity of first and second languages, and a wide range of methods used to collect pragmatic data in L2 and FL settings. This volume is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
Evans, Stephen – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Email has revolutionised the way in which professionals work and companies operate, and yet has received surprisingly little scholarly attention in English for Specific Purposes and has an unexpectedly muted presence in many Business English textbooks. The dearth of research into email use in globalised business settings may be one of the factors…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
Kimball, Lillian G. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook is an elementary English course based upon two fundamental facts in regard to language: (1) the purpose of language is communication of thought; and (2) the use of language is an art. The book also provides a complete and progressive course of instruction in the use of the dictionary as an aid to both oral and written language.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Dictionaries, English Instruction, Language Usage
