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O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1975
Formal grammar study is important in schools above the elementary level because it can lead to improved understanding of the nature and functions of language. Although newer grammars, based on structural linguistics and transformational-generative grammar, have not met the needs of the schools, their potential should not be ignored with a return…
Descriptors: Grammar, Instructional Systems, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Brekle, Herbert Ernst – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Language Instruction
Egli, Urs – Schulpraxis, 1969
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, German, Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedVater, Heinz – Language Sciences, 1971
Brief report on West German linguistic publications, intended especially for American linguists. Explanatory notes and a bibliography are included. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Structural Analysis
Long, Ralph B. – Coll Engl, 1970
Version of a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, NOvember 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)
Descriptors: English, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
Ervin, Jane – Grade Teacher, 1969
Part of the Grade Teacher special report, "Linguistics and the Language Arts.
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Grammar, Induction, Language Arts
Download full textLong, Ralph B. – The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1964
Strengths and weaknesses of generative grammar are examined by an apologist for the traditionalists. Criticism is directed toward difficulties encountered by the layman in comprehending texts on linguistic theories, linguists' use of jargon and pet formulas, and unwieldy amounts of terminology constantly being developed. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Grammar, Kernel Sentences
Peer reviewedGordon, W. Terrence – Glossa, 1978
This article argues that morphosemantic sets are a consequence of general properties of language structure. Thus the sets serve as a framework for advancing the study of motivation as a functional feature of language use. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory, Morphemes
Henry, Paul – Langages, 1975
Contrasts classical grammar, which concerned itself with the causal relationships of thought, universal order, and language, with modern linguistics, which tends to entirely absorb the matter of discourse. (Text is in French.) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
ASTON, KATHARINE O. – 1967
THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM CAN BE MADE MORE EFFECTIVE BY CONSIDERING THE SIGNIFICANT PART PLAYED BY THE COMPONENT OF GRAMMAR. THE NATIVE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH POSSESSES AN INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RULES OF GRAMMAR AND YET CANNOT EXPLAIN WHAT HIS INTUITION KNOWS. THEREFORE, A PRECISE, ECONOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LANGUAGE MECHANISM AND HOW IT FUNCTIONS…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grammar
Zimmerman, Howard Clinton – 1967
A study of the relative effectiveness of three approaches to teaching selected aspects of English grammar to 299 10th-grade students of average ability (17 class-size groups) was made in Lane County, Oregon. Five groups were taught using structural linguistics concepts; six groups employed traditional methods, materials, and approaches; and six…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Grammar, Secondary Education
Valdman, Albert – French Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Adjectives, Applied Linguistics, French, Language Instruction
Huddleston, Rodney – 1989
This report offers a critique, from a linguistic viewpoint of the approach to grammatical description and prescription found in commonly used Australian school textbooks in 1987. Attention was directed solely towards grammatical content. A review of 41 primary and secondary level texts was conducted. All texts were published in Australia, and all…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1986
Linguistics is the study of human language, and has several major divisions: formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics. Formal linguistics is the study of grammar, or the development of theories about how language works and is organized. Within formal linguistics there are three major schools of thought:…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Definitions, Information Sources, Language Research
GALE, IRMA FRANCES – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE THE COMPLEXITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS OF FIFTH-GRADE STUDENTS IN A LINGUISTICALLY-ORIENTED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM WITH THE COMPLEXITY OF THE WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS OF STUDENTS WHO WERE TAUGHT TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND A CONTROL GROUP WERE EACH COMPOSED OF 32 STUDENTS AND WERE EQUALIZED…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 5, Grammar, Language Arts
