NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 10 results Save | Export
Takahara, Kumiko – Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1969
Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1968, in New York, New York. (DS)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Japanese
Rothstein, Robert A. – Slavic East Europe J, 1970
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction, Morphemes
Barrera-Vidal, Albert – Die Neueren Sprachen, 1970
Descriptors: Diagrams, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Mayer, Edgar – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, Charts, French
Bucklin, Lincoln Brice – 1969
Arguing that slot-cards teach the structure of the verb and the grammatical message each slot carries while reducing the number of forms to be learned, the author describes a technique for teaching the tense modes of the present indicative, the present subjunctive, and the perfect indicative in French. A working model of the verb stems "aimer" and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Chu, Chauncey C. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1978
A discussion of a semantic approach to teaching these particles. The meaning of -zhe can be best characterized as "incompleteness.' Another characteristic of -zhe in a simple sentence is to change an action verb into a stative one. -Ne in conjunction with -zhe mitigates the incompleteness represented by -zhe. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Chinese, Higher Education, Language Instruction, Morphemes
Bruzzese, Giannina – 1978
The effect of formal instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) on the pidginized speech of a second language learner was studied. The subject was a 76-year-old Italian woman residing in the United States since the age of 37. Four one-hour tapes were made of the subject's speech in April of 1976, and during the last five months of a…
Descriptors: Age, English (Second Language), Grammar, Italian
Thomas, Owen – 1966
This pedagogical approach to transformational grammar describes those aspects of the subject which have the greatest relevance for teachers of English. Following a definition of basic terms and a discussion of the nature and function of grammar, a description of basic English sentence patterns is used to present a model grammar based on the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, English Instruction
Povey, John, Ed. – 1976
This is the tenth annual issue of the UCLA TESL (teaching English as a second language) workpapers. It includes the following papers: (1) "An Attempt to Model the Role of Cognitions in Language Learning," by R.L. Allwright; (2) "A Comparison of Language Proficiency Tests," by J. Donald Bowen; (3) "Language Study Through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Hypnosis
Corum, Claudia W. – 1978
This is an introductory text for the Swazi language, siSwati. Spoken by nearly a half million people in Swaziland, siSwati is one of the Nguni languages of the southeastern branch of the Bantu languages. Each of the 25 lessons in this text covers one or more basic grammatical structures. The first five lessons present the sound system in detail,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Dialogs (Language), Form Classes (Languages)